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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.

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.

1964 was 1st Class from Lavington to take KPE

Photos & names supplied by Magnus Flett

Standard 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 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	Standard 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

1963-1969

Standard 1, 1963	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	Nativity Play, 1967 or 1968?
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

1964

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

Standard 6 & 7 - 1965

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

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

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

The drop off/pick up road December 1965	Mr. Sentance, with Dilip and his mother	The back of Std. 7 (Mrs. Kemp's classroom)


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

Program for Lavington Primary Sports Day, 1965

Staff 1968 ?

Class ? 1967

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

Standard 1 to 7 - 1968 to 1974
Standard 1, 1968	Standard 2, 1969
Row 2 (seated): ??, Judy Omumbo; Judith Taylor
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 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

December 1969? - Prize Day

Standard 7 - 1969

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

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