At an altitude of about 1,400 metres (4,600 ft) the climate is warm in the day and cool in the evening, particularly during the dry season months of June and July.

[2] Doctor Walter Fisher and his wife, founders of the mission at Kalene Hill, founded the school in 1925 as a place to educate their own six children and those of other missionaries in the area.

[5] In the 1920s the government of Northern Rhodesia understood the difficulty of finding properly trained teachers, but the department of education was not sympathetic to the idea of an "itinerant evangelist giving a little instruction by the way in reading and writing".

[6] After an inspection of the Kalene school, the missionaries were told they did not meet the minimal standards required to qualify for grants.

[5] Without the school, the children of missionaries would have had to be sent "home" to their parents' distant countries at considerable financial and emotional expense.

[8] Although the teachers were Plymouth Brethren missionaries and the study of scripture was a large part of the curriculum, the educational system discouraged blind belief and encouraged a degree of questioning.

[9] The local Lunda people also took advantage of the Brethren schools including Sakeji to educate their "best and brightest".