Fees
A term of school for one child. The most direct thing you can pay for.
From GH¢720
Trusting God and Pursuing Excellence
Every term is a blank page.
Some children have been filling them since crèche.
Cape Coast, Ghana
Help us fill it. Fees, teachers, books, a roof that holds.
Trusting God and Pursuing Excellence
The school
The school runs on real effort, not luck. Teachers and staff show up every day and do the hard, patient work of raising these children right. Parents pay what they can. Supporters and old students who believe a school in Cape Coast is worth investing in do their part too. Twenty-seven years in, all of that adds up, in the students who've come through these doors, and in a school that's still standing, still teaching, and still growing.
Trusting God and pursuing excellence.
The school motto
The proprietress
Susan Aba Holdbrook-Smith Kwaidoo has spent roughly three decades in education, including years as Assistant Headmistress at Christ the King International School in Accra, before founding Sir Peter Holdbrook-Smith Memorial School in Cape Coast. She still leads the school she built. "Trusting God and Pursuing Excellence" isn't just the motto on the crest, it's the standard she's held the school to from the start.
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Crèche to JHS 3
The whole way through, under one roof.
Every year
A class finishes and walks out of the gate.
Cape Coast
On the coast of Ghana, where the school has always been.
Discipline and character
Firm structure paired with caring guidance: respect, responsibility and moral values, grounded in scripture.
The motto on the crest is not decoration. Trusting God and Pursuing Excellence is the standard the school measures itself by, and it shows up in how children are spoken to, corrected and encouraged every day.
We're incorporating more learning tools, including AI-supported resources, and an active recall approach to help children retain and apply what they learn more effectively.
Active recall means a child is asked to bring knowledge back out rather than read it over again. It is harder in the moment and it sticks for far longer.
Recognition
Children from this school have taken part in national competitions and come home with certificates presented at the highest level. Small school, Cape Coast, national stage.
Photographs
Marches, games, services, cultural days, graduating classes. Click any photograph to see it full size.
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Where it goes
Money given to this school turns into one of these four. You are welcome to say which, and the school will tell you what it turned into. If you would rather leave that to them, it is just as useful.
A term of school for one child. The most direct thing you can pay for.
From GH¢720
A good teacher stays when the salary arrives. This is the quiet cost nobody funds.
Per month
A desk, a set of books, a checked shirt that fits. The smallest gift that changes a day.
Per child
Roofs, walls, desks, wiring. Rooms on this coast need constant work.
Any amount
What one term costs, by level
The first three are the whole termly fee for one child at that level, paid each term. Admission is paid once, when a child first joins. Sponsor a term, a year, or as much of one as you like.
Try this
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What comes back
Of the classroom your money paid for, not a stock image.
End of term marks for the child you sponsored.
Written by hand, by them, not by us.
The old students
Everyone who went through this school is still part of it. The Sir Peter Old Students Association keeps them in touch with each other and with Cape Coast, and keeps the school's own photographs in one place: anniversaries, marches, games, services, class after class.
Old students and friends of the school can also earn by referring families.
The photograph archive lives on the SPOSA page.
Questions
It goes straight to the school's own account, not through anyone. The details are on this page. You can send the first one small and see what comes back.
Yes. It is in Cape Coast and it has been graduating classes for years. The photographs above are of the school itself.
Yes. Mobile money and bank transfer both take international payments. If your bank makes it difficult, write to us and we will sort it out with you.
Whatever a term costs where you are. A single term of fees does more here than it sounds like it should.
Yes. Write first so someone is there to show you round.
Yes, and it is the most useful way to do it. A standing order lets the school plan a year instead of a week.
Give
Send it straight to the school. Nothing sits in between.
Mobile money from inside Ghana, bank transfer from anywhere else.
Mobile money
Bank transfer
Put your name in the transfer reference so the school knows who to write back to.
For anyone who wants to talk first, needs a receipt, or is arranging something larger.