Lavington Primary School, Nairobi, Kenya

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Lavington Primary School, Nairobi, Kenya

Today, Lavington Primary is still very much alive and full of students--wearing the same uniforms as they did in the class pictures below. Classes have expanded considerably since ''free'' primary education was introduced in 2003. These two recent photographs were taken by J. Andrews.

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Brief History of Lavington

Lavington Primary School was founded in 1960. The first headmaster, Harry Sentance, was headmaster of the school from 1960 to 1977, when he moved to the Seychelles. His wife, Brenda Sentance, designed the Lavington School uniforms in 1964. The school's Latin motto - Quiquid Ages Age - translates as "Whatever you do, do well" and was derived from the Dambusters Squadron of the RAF which took off from Lincolnshire (where both Harry and Brenda were born) on bombing raids to Germany during the Second World War.

The first class to take KPE at Lavington was the class of 1964. Members of the founding class were: Alistair Logan, John Sims, Chris Wensley, Chris Waugh, Howard Pratt, John Cato, Russell Brumby, Magnus Flett, Phillippa Pickering, Anne Reilly, Rosalind Price, and David Sentance. I knew the people well as were all together for four years, a class of 21 of whom 10 went on to study at universities in England (including Oxford, Cambridge, University of Surrey, and University of Edinburgh). The parents of the majority of students were East African Airways flight crew. Our Standard 7 teacher was Mrs. Kemp. My Standard 6 class included David Wensley, now an MD in Vancouver, and Terise De Jager now living in Camarillo, California. Jeff De Jager (Terise's father) was head test pilot for EAA and later founded Swazi Air. Lavington was a phenomenal school with great results in the pre-drug era 1960, before the Beatles!

Information supplied by David, eldest son of Brenda and Harry Sentance. David Sentance is the author of Cricket in America, 1710-2000.

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1964 was 1st Class from Lavington to take KPE

Photos & names supplied by Magnus Flett

Standard 4, 1961

Std. 4, 1961

Top Row: ??, Margaret Starling, Caroline Ollerenshaw, ??, ??, ??, Carol Reilly
Row 2: Sarah McClenan, ??, ??, Rosalind Price, ??, Rosemary Jackman
Row 3: Johnathon Fitton, Alistair Logan, Russell Brumby , Magnus Flett, Alan Fitness?, Christopher (Chris) Waugh
Row 4: Christopher Wensley, Tudor Pope, John McCartney, David Sentance, John Sims, James Walker

Standard 5, 1962

Std 5 1962

Top Row: ??, Helen Sampson, Margaret Starling, John Cato, Carol Reilly, Alison Cooper
Row 2: James Walker, David Sentance, Alan Fitness?, Russell Brumby, Christopher Wensley, John McCartney
Row 3: ??, ??, Rosemary Jackman, Sarah McClenan, ??, Rosalind Price
Row 4: Magnus Flett, Christopher (Chris) Waugh, Alistair Logan, Jonathon Fitton

Standard 6, 1963

Std. 6 1963

Standard 7, 1964

Std. 7 1964

Top Row: John Cato, Magnus Flett, Christopher (Chris) Waugh, Howard Pratt, Russell Brumby, Alan Fitness?
Row 3: Sarah McClenan, Alison Cooper, ??, Margaret Starling, Rosemary Jackman, ? Parsons, ??, ??
Row 2: Robin ?, Helen Sampson, Gillian Harrigan, Catherine ?, Carol Reilly, Lynn McDonald, ??
Row 1: David Sentance, Christopher Wensley, ??, Alistair Logan, John McCartney

Top Row: ??, David Sentance, Bruce McBride, John McCartney, John (Jack) Wehner, Howard Pratt
Row 3: Ruby ?, Alison Cooper, Robin ?, ? Parsons, Margaret Starling, Gillian Harrigan
Helen Sampson, Lynn McDonald, Phillippa Pickering, ??
Row 2: Alan Fitness?, Christopher (Chris) Waugh, Christopher Wensley.

Missing from photograph: Magnus Flett

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1963-1969

Standard 1, 1963


Lavington Standard 1, 1963

Standard 2, 1964


Lavington Standard 2, 1964

Back row: Nicholas Georgiadis, ? , Colin Jennings, Richard Worrall, ? , ? Malcolm Corley, Anthony Starling
3rd row standing: ? , Julie Barnie, ? , ? , Heather Hill, Moira Newton, ? ,\Jenny Ermes, Paul Logan
2nd row seated: ?, Francis Talbot, ?, ?, ?, Gordon Hughes
Front row: ?, Jane Ollerenshaw, Jackie Phillips, Janice Cooper, ? , Alison Ratcliffe, ? , Nigel Harvey
Note: You can see the Sentance's house is in the background

Back row: Richard Worrall, ?, ?, ?, ?, Johnny McClatchie, ?
4th row: Heather Hill, Alison Ratcliffe, ?, Jenny Ermes, Jane Ollerenshaw, ?
3rd row: ?, Anthony Starling, ?, Geoffrey Street, ?, Gordon Hughes, Nicholas Georgiadis
2nd row: ?, Julie Barnie, ?, Alison Ratcliffe, Patricia Wallace, Jackie Phillips, Giselle White
Front row: Fiona Upton, ?, Nigel Harvey, Paul Logan, ?, Francis Talbot, ?

Standard 7, 1969


Standard 7, 1969

Nativity Play, 1967 or 1968?


Nativity Play

Back row: Jane Little, Hannah Buku, Linda Fountain, Jillian Jones, Jackie Phillips, Jenny Ermes
Middle row: Robin Grace, David Osiro, Jaspal Nanhandra, Antony Starling, Matthew Tompkins, John Opot, Wilfred??
Front row: Heather Hill, Rosamund Willard, Kalpana Panchmatia, Carole McCabe


The photographs were supplied by Jackie (Phillips) Smith.
Names were supplied by Jackie, Jenny (Ermes) Foster) and Heather (Hill) Koetscheid

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1964

Lavington 1964

Photo supplied by Gavin Fuller
(2nd row from the bottom, 4th from the left)

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Standard 6 & 7 - 1965

This section of photographs and program below were supplied by Dilip Sihra, now known as Joel Norton.

Lavington, ©  Dilip Sihra

School (Top End) (Std. 6 & 7) - 1966
Wall where we played  "buck-buck" and "dodge-em".

Lavington, ©  Dilip Sihra

Standard 7 - 1965
(Mrs. Kemp's class)

drop off road

The drop off/pick up road
December 1965

Dilip

Mr. Sentance,
with Dilip and his mother

back of classroom

The back of Std. 7
(Mrs. Kemp's classroom)


Lavington, ©  Dilip Sihra Lavington, ©  Dilip Sihra Lavington, ©  Dilip Sihra

School Play, 1965
Dilip Sihra, the "Bandelero" in the striped shirt


Program for Lavington Primary Sports Day, 1965

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Staff 1968 ?


Staff 1968

Class ? 1967


class photo

Back: Harry Sentance, Elisabeth Bush, Mrs. Kemp, Lorna Sands, Mrs Allen, Mrs Bethal
Front: Catherine Allardice, Mrs. Green (class 7),  ? Class 1 , Mrs. Mills, Nancy Davison, Mrs. Sentance

Photo: Elisabeth Bush

Photo: Elisabeth Bush

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Standard 1 to 7 - 1968 to 1974

Standard 1, 1968


Standard 1, 1968

Standard 2, 1969


Standard 2, 1969

Row 2 (seated): ??, Judy Omumbo; Judith Taylor

 

Standard 3
Standard 3

Back row: on left: Tim Sheppard, 5th from left: Anthony Williams
Standing row: 4th from left Hilary Sentance, 6th from left Grace Shiyukah
Sitting row: 3rd from left Ian Karanja, 5th from left Rodney Lee, 7th from left Walter ?
Front row: on left Ann Ndegwa,

Standard 7
Standard 7

Headmaster: Mr. Banks; Class teacher: Mrs. Davies


This section of photographs was supplied by Judy Omumbo. Class names for Standard 3 supplied by Tim Sheppard

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December 1969? - Prize Day

Prize Day

Headmaster - Harry Sentance
Photo: © Gordon Mumford

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Standard 7 - 1969

Standard 7 1969

Group photo of Standard Seven - 1968/69
Photo supplied by Angelo Lamb

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