Mrs.
Iyiola Olatokunbo Edun is the administrator of the foremost citadel of learning
in Lagos State, Grace Schools. And the erudite woman has been working at the
schools for 35 years. She started from the base and rose through the ranks
despite the fact that she is a daughter to the founder, Mrs. Grace Bisola
Oshinowo of blessed memory. Grace Schools against all odds clocked 50 years of
its existence recently.
In
the bid to remain ahead of her contemporary, Grace Schools, under the
supervision of Ma, as she is fondly called, partnered with international
institution to introduce basic foreign language such as Chinese.
The
school is also one of the leading institutions with a well-built structure that
encourages intellectual games and Tech training such as Chess, Coding.
This
is why the students, who graduate or go through the school in their academic
journey is always outstanding in their chosen areas of profession.
She
has extensive experience with assessments that are transparent and inform
evaluations. She has created, modified, and established the technical adequacy
of literacy, attention, and affective instruments in multiple languages. Her
literacy interventions, designed for Grace Schools, include teacher and student
materials, training, supportive technology and measures of fidelity.
Mrs.
Edun had introduced Etiquette to the Curriculum for the past 21 years, long
before the Ministry of Education began to launch a campaign for moral inclusion
in the academic curriculum.
Mrs.
Edun has succeeded remarkably in taking a twentieth-century school she was
given by the founder Grace Bisola Oshinowo who founded the School in 1968 and
turned it to a Microsoft Show Case School. They bagged the First British
Council Award from 2014- 2017, and from 2018-2021, as a twenty-first-century
school.
She
officially started Work at Grace Schools in 1982. This was after she had worked
in various capacities as a Nursery Assistant during her university days.
She
has over the years taught primary (Now called Grade) 2, 3, and 6. She also was
Headmistress from 1994-2004.
As
the CEO and administrator, Mrs. Edun has greatly helped modernize the school
from a 1960’s school to a 21st Century school over the years.
Introduced various subjects, not in the
Nigerian curriculum such as Etiquette, Chinese, Chess, Scrabble, Drama Dance
etc. This is because she believes that any child who attends Grace Schools
should be able to fit in effortlessly anywhere they might find themselves in
the world, despite the fact that Nigeria is considered a 3rd world country.
Most
students in Grace Schools can play at least one musical instrument, with some
being able to play 3 or 4.
Apart
from learning Chinese, which starts from Nursery 2 to the SS classes, Students
in Grace Schools are encouraged to take the Chinese language exams like YCT1.
& YCT 2 in the Primary and JS classes, and HSK 1, 2 & 3 in the SS
Classes.
14
years ago, she Introduced Scholarships for indigent students, so that smart
children from less privileged backgrounds can also attend Grace Schools free of
charge.
Mrs.
Edun believes that you can judge people and Nations by the way they treat the
most vulnerable people in the society, i.e women, children, the poor, the sick
and less privileged.
Mrs.
EDUN has also facilitated a Partnership between Grace Schools, Loyalist College
of Applied Arts and Technology, Belleville Ontario Canada,
This
means that the First Year of their degree courses will be done at Grace Schools
and the remaining 2 years will be completed in Ontario Canada.
Mrs.
Olatokunbo Edun went to Queen’s College Lagos. From there, she went for her
A’Levels in England at North Corner School in Lewes Sussex. She proceeded to
the University of Kent at Canterbridge where she did B.A. in History. She also went
to the University of Essex where she obtained a Master’s Degree in Comparative
History. She later proceeded to UNILAG for her PGD.
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