A new kind of primary school for Toamasina.
King's Grammar School was founded on a simple conviction: that every child in Madagascar deserves the kind of primary education that opens doors anywhere in the world.
We are an independent Christian school, taking children from Reception through to Year 6. We follow the English National Curriculum, taught bilingually in English and French, with Malagasy as a celebrated home language across the school.
Our standards are not negotiable. Phonics is taught properly. Times tables are learned by heart. Children read aloud every day. We mark work, we give feedback, and we expect children to act on it. The result, we believe, is the kind of education that quietly changes a life.
Our ethos
- Truth and light. Our motto, Veritas · Lux, means truth and light. We teach children to seek both — in their schoolwork, their friendships, and their faith.
- Knowledge is liberation. A child who can read fluently and reason carefully is harder to deceive and freer to choose.
- Every child matters by name. Small classes mean teachers know each child — their reading level, their handwriting, the gaps in their times tables, the things they love.
- A Christian school. We are unapologetically Christian: daily worship, weekly Bible, and the school virtues woven through everything. Children of all faiths and none are warmly welcomed.
What you will not find here
- — No screens replacing teachers.
- — No copying from the board for an hour.
- — No “he'll catch up next year” about reading.
- — No empty praise. We tell children when they have done well, and how they can do better.
- — No bullying tolerated. Ever.
Teachers, not technicians.
Our teachers are trained in the methods we use — phonics, mastery maths, retrieval practice — and continue to be coached week by week. Subject knowledge matters. Pedagogy matters. We invest in both.
Leadership of the school combines British primary teaching experience with deep roots in Madagascar. We are building something for the long term.