Curriculum

a) Curriculum
Acacia Crest Senior school is a state of the art, educational and a boarding Boys High school offering the Kenyan National Curriculum Education. The school is committed to offer quality teaching and learning experience to a diverse and inclusive community of students by delivering challenging, high quality program of international standards.

Subjects Offered Group Subjects
GROUP I
Compulsory for all
Mathematics
English
Kiswahili
GROUP II
Chemistry (Compulsory)
Physics
Biology
GROUP III
Geography
History
C.R.E (Compulsory)

i) Teaching and Learning
We envision to incorporate both direct teacher–student contact time and online learning opportunities by utilizing the modern ICT tools that are installed in our classrooms. We endeavor to be inclusive in our teaching and to use differentiated approaches to accommodate diverse learning styles and to ensure that no student is left behind, blended learning will allows for collaboration, use of online tools to practicing concepts and to bring out the best out of all our learners making Acacia Crest Senior School A Centre of Academic Excellence.

b) Technology
At Acacia Crest Senior school, we have heavily invested in technology as it ushers in fundamental structural changes that can be integral to achieving significant improvements in productivity. To support teaching and learning, our classrooms have been fitted with digital learning tools, such as interactive boards; This will help increase student engagement and motivation; and accelerates learning. This technology will transform teaching by ushering in a new model of connected teaching. This model links teachers to their students and to professional content, resources, and systems to help them improve their own instruction and personalize learning as well as give parents an opportunity to actively participate in the process of value acquisition of their sons.

c) Entrepreneurship
The Entrepreneurship Program supports the Acacia Crest Senior school’s vision by fostering thoughtful, productive, and engaged citizens who understands the value of utilizing the available resources effectively
It aims to enhance skills and competencies of critical and creative thinking, problem solving, collaboration, perseverance, and self-control. We endeavor to use the design thinking process to mold a group of transformative leaders in the business world.

d) Mentorship
As a way of molding the students, Acacia Crest Senior school has developed a robust program of student’s mentorship where our staff participate in the mentorship program acting as advisors to a group of students and meet them on a weekly basis. The mentors have a responsibility of guiding, advising and ensuring the comfort of the students during the course of their staying the school.
The scope of mentorship ranges from the general wellbeing of the learners, their academic progress, sports, arts, enterprise, leadership, and any other emerging issues. Peer mentorship is also encouraged where senior students provide mentorship to their juniors in their residential life matters. Acacia Crest Senior school is anchored on Christian values and therefore the mentorship programs are based on Christian teachings and values. Acacia Crest Senior school has incorporate external mentors who play a key role in shaping the career aspiration of the learners and provide work experience opportunities to the learners.

e) Co-curriculum activities
i) Sports
In the spirit of the physical wellbeing our staff members and students are involved in  sporting activities which are carried out at least five days a week with exception of one day set aside for club and another day set for societies. We have enrolled our school in both private and public schools’ competitions, organist internal competitions as well as compete at international level. Our sports department is supported by a team of professional coaches, that make Acacia Crest Senior school a Centre of Sports Excellence.
Some of the sports offered are as follows: Athletics, Soccer, Basketball, Volleyball, Swimming, Table-tennis, Badminton, Chess, Scrabble.

ii) Clubs and societies
Acacia Crest Senior school is committed towards establishing a broad range of clubs and activities which develop and nurture skills talent and develops confidence in our learners. Some of the clubs are: Journalism, Debate, Scouts movement, St. John’s Ambulance, Aviation, Art, Science, Drama, Maths Club, President’s Award, Music, Culinary, young farmers club.

f). Community service
Acacia Crest Senior school provides community service opportunities develop students who understand that they are members of local and global communities with responsibilities towards each other and the environment.