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| Kestrel Manor offers a number of activities during the lunchtime and after school. These include Ballet, Theatre, Music and Movement, LAMDA, Taekwondo and Horse Riding. In addition on Friday afternoons, the children can choose from a variety of clubs
offered by their teachers including playacting, paper craft and cookery. |
"At Kestrel Manor School all activities are fun and the teachers are good to me!"
- Devang
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:: LAMDA |
LAMDA offers school children speech and drama courses.
Programmed to run for the full academic year, each pupil is prepared for various examinations before an examiner from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art - LAMDA. Drama Development's teachers have certificates of proficiency from LAMDA or equivalent.
Speech covers a variety of exercises including work on voice and diction coupled with at a later stage the study, appreciation and interpretation of English literature. The course also brings students into contact with the works of a wide range
of poets and authors. Prose, poetry and choral speaking are an integral part of the course.
Drama focuses upon movement, relaxation, listening skills, observation skills, improvisation, the spoken word, story telling, role-play and mime. |
Drama Class
LAMDA's examiners give students an objective and constructive assessment. They are highly qualified, experienced professionals whose skills spread across a broad range of disciplines.
LAMDA increases personal and social confidence in each of the three core areas. These are observation skills, listening skills and the ability to work and communicate with others - to look, listen and trust.
Also developed are clarity of communication, expression, wider knowledge of English literature, theatre skills, self-presentation, poetry and prose. Each pupil who takes the examination will receive an individual written report from the LAMDA examiner.
Certificates are awarded in three grades --Pass, Distinction and Honours.
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:: THE CHILDREN'S THEATRE |
 The Children's Theatre is an associate member of the National Association of Youth Theatres (UK) and part of The Thea, registered in Kenya. The Children's Theatre introduces children to the theatre through a series of dramatic activities, which include:
- Acting out monologues and dialogues
- Acting out characters
- Improvisation
- Mime
- Moving to music
- Acting with masks and puppets
- Stage make-up
- Writing texts and lyrics
- Singing
- Clowning and Magic
- Acrobatics
The course is offered to children of 5 years and above.
Sign up for the Children's Theatre if you want your child to have fun and to increase their self-confidence.
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:: INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC |
Music lesson with Mr. Mwangi |
The Music teacher Mr. Njora Mwangi has vast experience in teaching Music. He helps students to acquire and develop musical skills and to gain the necessary facility involved in reading and playing music.
He offers individual and group tuitions in Piano, Guitar, Flute, Recorder and Singing.
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:: BALLET |
Lennie Safiruddin is a professional ballet teacher. She gives the lessons as an after school activity. She teaches classical ballet. This is the basis of many forms of dance.
 Ballet exercises are very good for
- Coordination of the body
- Developing a feeling for rhythm and musicality
- Gaining self-confidence and discipline
- Fitness
- Posture
... and it is great fun!
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:: DANCING |
Dancing Class |
Lennie Safiruddin gives dancing lessons. These lessons concentrate less on techniques and more on expressive dance.
This incorporates: learning basic ballet exercises, dancing like snakes, cats, clowns, puppets etc.
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:: TAE-KWON-DO |
 The term "Taekwondo" comes from a Korean word consisting of three Chinese characters, which have their proper meanings respectively.
"Tae" means a stepping or a playing game of shuttlecock kick, thus standing for the foot. "Kwon" means the fist or striking by the fist and "Do" means a way or road to walk on, signifying the righteous way of human life.
The objective of training Taekwondo is to seek the perfection of self, i.e. perfection of personal characters, to grow self-control and endurance during the course of training, and finally to acquire the tolerance and modesty that the stronger can show the
weaker, if one reaches to an extraordinary level of Taekwondo mastery.
Do not leave your child's future to chance. The number one training for kids in the USA and Europe in and out of school is Taekwondo (Korean Karate). Parents know that Taekwondo has been part of every society and it has many benefits.
Taekwondo was also scheduled for the first time as an official sport at the Olympic Games 2000 in Sydney, Australia
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:: HORSE RIDING |
Horse riding at the school |
Horse riding is one of the many extra curricular activities that children really enjoy in Kestrel Manor School. Children get the opportunity of learning the basic skills on a pony. The basic skills taught to children below 8 years are:
- Sitting and balancing on a saddle
- Steering
- Trotting
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If a child has mastered all the above skills and he/she is over 8 years then more challenging skills e.g. sitting canter and many others are introduced.
Instructor: Mr. Jackson
Horse Riding - Special Needs Children
With riding for the special needs children, our main objective is for them to enjoy themselves.
We teach them as much of the basic exercises as possible. They do exercises on the horse which help them relax and balance themselves. Depending on their disability, they do a little bit of trotting, both sitting and rising.
Safety is of the utmost importance. They normally have two people holding them on the horse depending on the seriousness of their disability.
These children seem to love their ponies and have a special relationship with them.
Place: Nkudzi Riding School Ltd. Ngong Road, Karen
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