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Allergies in Children
Common Allergies in Children & What You Should Do to Help

Children are fragile beings, and for the most part, your job as a parent is to keep them healthy and safe. However, there are constant and uprising threats that tend to make that job a bit more difficult. Allergies in children are a bit common and most of them can be managed until adulthood with […]

Parent Night Out
Exciting night out for our parents

Ever since social distancing has become the norm for us, as a Thinking School, we not only took learning online; we also took having fun online. This online fun started with our students last month, as they had a virtual Fun Day, but this month, it was the turn of our parents. We hosted them in […]

15 Delicious and Healthy Snack Recipes for Kids

You must have heard the proverb “health is wealth” about a million times because, in truth, the greatest wealth that one can have is good health. Maintaining a healthy diet can help prevent many lifelong health problems such as obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, and type 2 diabetes.  Eating well can also enhance brain […]

Gross Motor Activities for Kids
10 Gross Motor Activities for Kids

Children with excellent gross motor skills don’t usually have issues with larger movements such as crawling, walking, running and jumping. They are physically fit and enjoy healthy growth, which occurs as a result of their engagement in gross motor activities. These activities make them use the muscles of their legs, arms, and trunk, thereby helping […]

Our first-ever virtual fun day celebration

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and as COVID-19 has forced learning to be virtual, we also decided to hold a virtual Fun Day. The event was celebrated across our school categories — from Preschool to IB Diploma — and it was a day filled with fun and exciting activities. Our […]

Netflix Parental Control
How to Setup Netflix Parental Control & Protect Your Kids from Contents Not Right for their Age

Netflix has lots of movies and TV shows that are suitable and enjoyable for kids, but at the same time, it has some content you don’t want your kids to see. This is the reason you need to set up Netflix parental control and protect your kids from ever coming across these contents.  Before April […]

Alumni Achievement: Oyebola Odukoya’s App, HÖBOscan, Ranked Top 100 Out of Millions on App Store

Oyebola Odukoya is a Greensprings alumnus who graduated from the Lekki campus in 2015. He is currently a student at West Virginia University USA. He majors in both Computer and Electrical Engineering, with minors in Computer Science and Mathematics.  While working as a tutor at the Engineering Learning Centre in his university, Oyebola also started […]

Birthday Gifts for kids
18 Awesome Birthday Gifts for Kids Your Child Would Cherish

Birthday parties might be all the rave, but a great birthday gift will always be the highlight for your child at the end of the day. However, choosing a birthday gift for your child is sometimes not an easy feat. What your child loved yesterday, might no longer be interesting to him or her by […]

An inspiring session of purpose and personal well-being for staff of Greensprings

Schools across Nigeria have been closed for about four months now, and it has been a challenging period for stakeholders in the educational sector. To this end, on Saturday, 11 July 2020, Greensprings School organized a virtual event to motivate all staff. The event was tagged “Purpose and Personal Wellbeing”, and the guest speaker was […]

respect
How to Teach Kids Respect

Nowadays, it is not uncommon to see young children displaying a perceived high level of disrespect to adults. You would see them in a heated argument with an adult, sometimes using foul languages. You see them disrespecting people in authority, and when you try to correct them, they either abuse you or walk out of […]