
Boarding for the First Time in Grade 10: A Packing and Preparation Checklist for Parents
Your child is going to boarding school for the first time in January. Here is what to prepare, what to pack, and why the school list always comes first.

Your child is going to boarding school for the first time in January. Here is what to prepare, what to pack, and why the school list always comes first.

Grade 10 School Based Assessment is 15 per cent of the final KCBE result, and schools must upload it by 31 October. This is the short list of things a parent can still check before then.

Grade 10 learners sit their first senior school end of year exams with no older year group and no past papers. Here is what to revise, and how.

Every Grade 10 subject we have notes for, grouped the way senior school timetables group them, with the matching end of term exam and marking scheme.

Senior school is not simply more of the same. Subject choice narrows, pathways appear, and the cohort moving up now has no older year group to copy.

Grade 10 is the pioneer senior school cohort, which means very few past papers exist. That makes format-accurate prediction and revision papers more useful here than anywhere else.

The pioneer Grade 10 cohort will sit 17 KNEC exams in October. Learn why it matters, how schools will adapt, and practical steps for parents to support their children.

The pioneer Grade 10 CBC cohort will sit seventeen KNEC written exams in October, prompting parents to plan study schedules and use CBC resources.

Grade 9 learners will receive eight senior school choices for Grade 10 placement, according to The Eastleigh Voice. Parents are advised on how to navigate the new options.