Curriculum

Our schools (Benson Idahosa Cathedral Academy and St. Matthews Royal Schools), run the Day Care/Pre-Nursery, Nursery, Primary, Junior and Senior Secondary programmes as specified in the Nigerian National Policy on Education. It offers a wide variety of academic subjects taught by disciplined, dedicated and professional staff. The students normally begin with a broad spectrum of subjects which becomes more focused as he or she progresses.


 Our Schools provide a high quality care for kids. The day-care session of our establishment has a combination of a healthy and safe environment together with educational and social stimulation appropriate to the age and development of the children being served. Given the importance of the early years for children’s physical, social, emotional and cognitive development, the Schools day-care services run a curriculum in child care that is geared towards planned and spontaneous educational experiences that occur within a predictable daily routine. Time is designated for outdoor and indoor play. Large group gatherings are used for stories, music, movement and more; and for routines like eating, toileting and resting. Play and routine care-giving activities are the fundamentals of the curriculum with age group of pupils in the Statesman’s day-care.

Our Nursery school has structural schedules that include plenty of time for physical activity, quiet time (including daily reading sessions for groups and individuals), group programs, individual activities, meals, snacks and free time. Television and videos are also provided as part of the curriculum with utmost respect to children’s age.

The school has a well-thought-out curriculum that stimulates a child’s development and makes daily life of children lively and fun-filled.

Our Schools run a standard primary school curriculum which is in tandem with the Ministry of Education. The curriculum is envisage to prepare the children with the knowledge, skills and dispositions to optimize their own development, to constitute a caring, respectful and socially conscious citizenry and to competently lead our country onto the world stage.

The curriculum is characterized by:

  •        A focus on subject areas within an integrated, thematic approach.
  •        Cross curricular development of literacy and numeracy.
  •        Infusion of ICTs.
  •        A prioritization of assessment for learning.
  •        A conscious development of values.
  •        Explicit attention to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of a range of students

  • We run a curriculum document from the Ministry of Education which consist of:

  •  1.  Curriculum guides in 15 subject areas: Agricultural science, English language, Arts, Mathematics, Physical Education,    Science, Social Studies, Values, Character and Citizenship Education, Visual and Performing Arts, French language, I, Verbal and Quantitative Reasoning, Home Economics, Christian Religion Studies;
  • 2.  Curriculum guides for each of year levels;
  • 3.  A comprehensive teacher’s guide.

In Junior secondary one to three, Our Schools emphasizes on the following subjects:



Junior secondary one to three students of our schools are usually allowed to study the above listed subjects so as to be able to make a better choice of career especially when they graduate into the senior secondary school session.


we runs a curriculum that criss-crossed the subjects eligibility for the three major faculties in the school viz:

  1.   Faculty of Pure Sciences/Technical Education
  2.   Faculty of Arts and Humanities
  3.   Faculty of Social Sciences and Commercial

Students in our secondary school are given the opportunity of studying all the subjects during their first year of study. They will choose 9 subjects in their second year of study in the senior secondary school which in line with each of the faculties available and the career choice made by the students.