Board of Directors

Vertex as a school provides learning environment and experiences that promote wholesome education of the child. This embraces core developmental areas such as physical, intellectual, spiritual, moral, effective communication skills, social interaction, and numeracy development. Developmental and educational psychologists such as Jean Piaget, Fredrick Froebel have clearly stated that pre-schools years are the fundamental or formative period in the life of an individual. As a critical period, most concepts and basic principles of life are engraved in the child during these early years. Therefore, the educational objectives that guide prenursery and nursery education are well planned and developed from the child’s immediate environment. Vertex Nursery and Primary school is tasked with introducing to the child the basic numerical, language, spiritual and social skills, geared towards child’s self-realization, better human relationship, individual and national efficiency, effective citizenship, national consciousness, and unity, as well as promote spiritual, moral, social, cultural, economic, political, scientific, and technological progress of the child.

“To be the Best in Child-Centered, Wholesome Education for Sound, Spiritual, Physical, Mental, Moral, Social Foundation and Development”.

“To create an enabling environment and technology that helps the child to discover, practice and learn through play and motivation under the tender guidance of a skillful teacher and in partnership with caring parents”.

Our core values and practices are guided by the counsel in Proverbs 22:6 that “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it”. We seek to mould and inculcate in the child the following Christian values:

1. Integrity, Honesty, Reliability, Dependability, Truthfulness.
2. Submission to and respect for God, parents, and constituted authority.
3. Diligence and hard work as key determinants of success.
4. Love for God, self, and others.

1. Child-centered approach to teaching that facilitates child’s personal effort in learning.
2. Emphasis on modern learning, techniques, teaching aids, guided play, the application, and multi-media teaching and learning to build communicative, qualitative and interpersonal skills.
3. Promotion of active parental partnership in the learning and moulding of the child.
4. Effective use of Christian principles to inculcate core values of the school in the child.

Vertex Nursery and Primary School Makurdi runs the National Primary school curriculum programmes. The school provides the best of science, Arts, Commercial and ICT Education. Those subjects are offered in line with the state and National Curriculum. We prepare our pupils to compete favourably for internal and external examinations.

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Pimary Section subjects

S/N	Subjects	Combination
1	Languages	(English & Verbal, French & other indigenous languages)
2	Mathematics & Quantitative reasoning
3	Basic Sci & Tech.	(Computer studies, Physical and Health Education)
4	Pre-vocational stud	(Agricultural sciences & Home Economics)
5	National Values	(Social studies & Civic Education)
6	Christian Religious Studies (CRS)
7	History
8	Cultural and Creative Arts (CCA)	(Fine Art & Handwriting)
9	Vocational

Pre-Primary Section Subjects

Subjects
Numeracy/Mental work
Letters/Verbal Reasoning
Phonics
Science & Health Habits
Social & Living Habits
Scribbling & Colouring
Oral Communication
Christian Religious Studies
Nursery Rhymes
Computer Studies

Co-Curricular Activities

Activities
I C T (Programming/Coding)
Press Club
Math Genius Club
Goodnews Club
Debate Club
Jet Club
Safety Club
Games (Chess & Scrabble)
Sports (Football, Running, Badminton, Volleyball, Handball, Basketball, Table Tennis & Skipping)

Extracurricular Activities

Activities
Programmer Tots
Music
Little Chef
Fashion Kids
Martial Art
Dance
Excursions

Classes and Age Bracket

Class	Age Bracket
Creche	Below 2 years
Play Group	2 years
Nursery 1	3 years
Nursery 2	4 years
Nursery 3	5 years
Basic 1	6 years
Basic 2	7 years
Basic 3	8 years
Basic 4	9 years
Basic 5	10 years
Basic 6	11 years

Assessments are an important aspect of the teaching and learning at vertex.

1. We ensure that pupils are continuously assessed, to give ongoing feedback; formative assessment; and to provide score/grade; summative assessment.
2. Peoples are given homework daily on the topic treated.
3. Projects are also given that take a week or two where necessary.

There are two schedules of tests and an end-of-term assessment that provides a structure for uninterrupted assessment and allows VERTEX to update parents with a proper evidence of each pupil’s academic advancement. To prepare pupils for external assessment, VERTEX allows the most experienced teachers in the expected fields to coach pupils and assess them.

Total score	average	Grade	Remark
90-100	90.0-100	A	EXCELLENT
80-89	80.0-89.0	B	VERY GOOD
70-79	70.0-79.0	C	GOOD
60-69	60.0-69.0	D	PASS
0-59	0-59.0	E	FAIL

We encourage parents to consider the average of their children rather than position to determine their academic progress. This is because a child who took first position in class A with an average of 75 is not better than a child who took third position in class B with an average of 80.