Teachers have been advised to begin instilling in children virtues bringing peace early in life as a beginning point in averting unending battles in society, and to destroy the spirit of seeking revenge in homes, schools and in society.
The advice was on Sunday sounded by the head teacher for Seeta High School Mbalala Campus, Boniface Ssebukalu, at the commissioning of top class learners for St. Augustine Junior School Mukono, during which the end of year party for the school was also held at the school campus at Jjoggo in Goma Division, Mukono Municipality.
Ssebukalu urged school administrators to always begin with the right curriculum by teaching children to say words like ‘thank you’, ‘Sorry’, ‘excuse me’, and others, saying these are magic words that children must pick from day-one in school.
He discouraged tendencies of teaching the young learners words like ‘a tooth for a tooth’ adding that such words only serve to breed unending battles and killing the spirit of forgiveness and love for each other now and for the future.
He underscored the importance of punctuality, beginning everything by planning and making concrete strategies for everything, as a sure way of minimizing mistakes, adding, “working together as servant’s leaders is the trick to development of communities.
Nasser Kakumba, a member of the school Parent and Teachers’ Association (PTA) hailed St. Augustine Junior School’s teachers for instilling in the children value and norms essential for good parenting, and urged parents to take a cue from them, especially in the forthcoming long vacation.
Kakumba advised the parents to teach the children work in spite of the presence of house aids, saying it would be embarrassing when the children grow up without knowledge of even the simplest things like peeling matooke, mopping, dish washing and doing their own laundry.
The headmistress Sharot Nagawa said they decided to move with their own pioneer learners up to primary seven level, and disclosed that next year, they will begin their first primary five class.
“All these are strategies of bringing up our children in a home tailored manner, children that we can easily put right in case anything goes amiss,” Nagawa said.
She appealed to parents to follow in the footsteps of the school, noting that as a school, they have done their role and that it is now up to parents to uphold the values so far built.
The day was started by the celebration of the mass led by Rev. Fr. Ronald Kyambadde of Nyenga Seminary. Fr. Kyambadde acknowledged the proprietors of St. Augustine Junior School for having decided to name it before Saint Augustine, saying given the fact that he was among the wisest men in the Bible, he is to intercede for this school and that in the end, it will become among the most successful ones in the country, in a few years to come.
Fr. Kyambadde blessed the school, its teachers, parents and the pupils, the current and others to come right from next year.
