Academics

A curriculum children can actually use

Fourteen class levels from creche to JSS 3, thirty subjects and an assessment rhythm designed to catch a struggling child in week three — not at the end of term.

Creche & Pre-School

6 months – 3 years

A warm, safe first step away from home — care, play, language and the routines that make a confident learner.

Creche: Settling, secure attachment, sensory play, first words and a predictable daily rhythm.
Pre-School: Talking in short sentences, colours and shapes, sharing and turn-taking, toilet independence.

Nursery

3 – 6 years

Nursery 1 to Nursery 3. Phonics, number work, rhymes and discovery play — the years reading is born in.

Nursery 1: Letter sounds, number recognition to 20, holding a pencil correctly, my body and my family.
Nursery 2: Blending simple words, writing numerals to 50, plants and animals, first computer play.
Nursery 3: Reading three-letter words and first sentences, numbers to 100, full Primary 1 readiness.

Lower Primary

6 – 9 years

Primary 1 to Primary 3. Structured literacy and numeracy, taught actively — the years where a reader and a mathematician are made.

Primary 1: Reading fluency, number bonds to 20, structured routines and independence.
Primary 2: Extended writing, times tables to 5, first science investigations.
Primary 3: Comprehension strategies, multiplication and division, coding begins.

Upper Primary

9 – 12 years

Primary 4 to Primary 6. Deeper science, reasoning, technology and the arts, with the study habits secondary school will demand.

Primary 4: Fractions and decimals, laboratory practicals, robotics, longer projects.
Primary 5: Reasoning under time, research skills, leadership roles across the school.
Primary 6: Secondary-school readiness: study skills, revision technique and transition support.

Junior Secondary

12 – 15 years

JSS 1 to JSS 3. The full junior secondary curriculum, subject specialists and the study discipline the BECE demands.

JSS 1: Settling into subject teaching, study routines, note-making and the full junior syllabus foundation.
JSS 2: Algebra, laboratory technique, extended writing and the first internal mock examinations.
JSS 3: BECE preparation, past-question practice, subject-choice counselling and senior secondary guidance.

Subjects

30 subjects across the school

Play & DiscoveryPLYLanguage & CommunicationLNGMotor Skills & MovementMOTHealth & Self-Help HabitsHABLiteracy & RhymesLITNumber WorkNUMPhonicsPHOBasic Science & EnvironmentENVEnglish StudiesENGMathematicsMTHBasic ScienceBSCSocial StudiesSSTCivic EducationCIVComputer StudiesCMPQuantitative ReasoningQNRVerbal ReasoningVBRFrenchFREChristian Religious StudiesCRSIslamic Religious StudiesIRSCreative ArtsARTMusicMUSPhysical & Health EducationPHEHome EconomicsHECAgricultural ScienceAGRBasic TechnologyBTEBusiness StudiesBUSNational Values EducationNVENigerian Language (Hausa)HAUCultural & Creative ArtsCCALiterature-in-EnglishLIR

Assessment

How a term score is built

Every subject score is out of 100, split between continuous assessment and the examination. The usual split is 40/60; each subject teacher sets the exact weighting for the term.

Continuous assessmenttypically 40%

Examinationtypically 60%

Grading

Grade bands and remarks

Grade bands
Grade	Score range	Remark
A	80–100	Excellent
B	70–79	Very Good
C	60–69	Good
D	50–59	Fair
E	40–49	Needs Support
F	0–39	Requires Intervention

Class structure

Twenty-nine classes across fourteen levels

Sections are kept deliberately small. Our average class size is 24 pupils.

Class structure by level
Level	Sections	Pupils
Creche	1	18
Pre-School	1	22
Nursery 1	2	40
Nursery 2	2	42
Nursery 3	2	44
Primary 1	3	72
Primary 2	3	75
Primary 3	3	78
Primary 4	2	57
Primary 5	2	55
Primary 6	2	52
JSS 1	2	48
JSS 2	2	44
JSS 3	2	40

Teaching methods

Eleven ways we teach

1Classroom instruction

2Practical activities

3Collaborative learning

4Project-based learning

5Digital learning

6Educational games

7Creative expression

8Experiments

9Reading programmes

10Field trips

11Continuous assessment

Ready to join the El-Bethel family?

Admission for the 2026/2027 session is open for every class — Creche, Pre-School, Nursery 1–3, Primary 1–6 and JSS 1–3. Spaces in some classes are limited.

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