In 2020, in the middle of a global pandemic, something quiet but powerful began at Warren Park 2 Primary School.

Mrs. Chirere, the school's head, opened her doors to Uncommon. Not just to our program, but to the idea that technology could change the lives of her students and her community.

At the time, nobody could have predicted what would happen next.

Our Innovation Hub was set up at Warren Park 2 to run our free tech Bootcamp, a 12-month program that trains unemployed young adults and prepares them for jobs in the tech industry.

As part of their training, those young adults walk into the nearby classrooms and teach the primary school kids how to code.

It seems like a small act. But it planted a seed.

By 2025, that seed had grown into something remarkable.

Warren Park 2 was no longer just a place where our Bootcamp students learnt and taught coding after school. It had become the technology training centre for the entire Warren Park cluster, a hub where teachers from eight nearby schools came to learn AI, Microsoft Office, and how to bring technology into their classrooms.

The computer lab was upgraded. The teachers were trained. And something started to shift.

Warren Park 2 used to be the top school in the cluster. Then, for a few years, it wasn't. By 2023, it had fallen to last place, 7th out of 7 schools.

In 2025, the year the Teacher Training Lab opened, Warren Park 2 climbed back to number one.

Here's how the journey looked:

• 2023: Ranked 7th (91.3% pass rate)
• 2024: Ranked 5th (87.5% pass rate)
• 2025: Ranked 1st (93.1% pass rate)

In Agriculture, Science, and Technology, the subjects most closely linked to the tech lessons, the pass rate hit 94.82%. And perhaps most beautifully of all, 55 boys and 55 girls passed. A perfect 1:1. Equal outcomes, across the board.

The grades are impressive. But the real story is simpler than a ranking.

Before the Teacher Training Program, technology at Warren Park 2 lived in one room, the computer lab, and was taught by one person: the ICT teacher. If that teacher was absent, the lesson didn't happen. If a student missed the class, they missed their only window into the digital world.

Today, that's changed. Every teacher at Warren Park 2 has been trained. Technology is no longer locked behind one door and one subject. It's woven into every lesson, every classroom, every day.

A history lesson uses AI to bring the past to life. A science lesson pulls resources from around the world. Even the youngest students, infants, are experimenting with computers, discovering what they can do.

As Mrs. Chirere put it:

"We are no longer just teaching a subject. We are using technology to deliver the entire heritage of our curriculum."

The story of Warren Park 2 is the story of what's possible when every part of our model works together.

Young adults from the community came to our Bootcamp and got trained. They taught coding to the children next door. Their presence helped build the case for technology in the school. The school became a training centre. The teachers got equipped. The children got more. The grades went up.

One investment. One community. One ripple that kept spreading.

This is why we do what we do.

Every teacher we train reaches a classroom full of children. Every child who learns to code carries that knowledge with them for the rest of their life. And every school like Warren Park 2 proves that this isn't a dream, it's already happening.

Help us take it further. The more schools we can reach, the more stories like this we get to tell.