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with a connection to this site. To see the full version, click on the thumbnail of the images. To return to this page, click the Back Arrow. To add your school photo, please contact KenyaKorner & put Kenya Photos as the subject. Lavington Primary School, NairobiToday, 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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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, Uni of Surrey, and Uni 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 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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Lavington Primary, 1963-1969 |
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Standard 1, 1963Back row: Nicholas Georgiadis, ? , Colin Jennings,
Richard Worrall, ? , ? , Malcolm Corley, Anthony Starling |
Standard 2, 1964
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, ?
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Standard 7, 1969Back row: Jane Little, Hannah Buku, Linda Fountain,
Jillian Jones, Jackie Phillips, Jenny Ermes |
Nativity Play, 1967 or 1968?
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The photographs were supplied by Jackie
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Staff - 1968?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 |
Class ? 1967Photo: Elisabeth Bush |
December
1969? - Prize Day
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