Everyone involved in GHS’s community agrees: it is a special place, with an ethos all of its own.

That is partly a result of the founding missionaries and  setting. It is as if our story seeps from the golden stones of our buildings, giving our gils a profound sense that they are part of a living tradition.

We were the first girls school at a time then when a few schools existed for boys, girls only received religious instruction in Scripture and Catechism to prepare for baptism. European teachers were supported by African counterparts, and some girls, having excelled in both behavior and academics, were able to become teachers themselves despite lacking formal training.

But there is more to our distinctiveness than this. We are committed to providing an all-girls, boarding, education that is shaped for the twenty-first century. In this way, we create the time and space to nurture our girls’ dispositions and prepare them for the future.