BY WILBERFORCE KAWERE | MUKONO | KYAGGWE TV | Managers of Mukono primary schools that performed well in last year’s Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) have given tips to their colleagues whose learners did not excel, on tricks to help them come out with star performance in this year’s examinations.
Among the tips they gave to their fellow educators is cultivating a culture of cordial relationship between themselves, parents and pupils, convincing parents on the necessity to provide meals and school requirements, avoiding the tendency of making learners skip some classes, and sacrificing everything to ensure the syllabus is completed on schedule and contents therein internalized by the pupils.
The teachers’ advice was complimented by the Bishop of Mukono diocese, Enos Kitto Kagodo who observed that a holistic development of the children’s body and spirit calls for properly feeding them and giving them parental love which he said they cannot derive from anywhere else other than from parents.
Bp. Kagodo appealed to the government to come out with stern measures to enforce the requirement by parents to provide their children with lunch at school, and appealed to schools to prioritise this call in the new year.
“Eating is a natural obligation by humans set by heaven, and trampling on it tantamounts to pushing under the carpet the children’s requirements to perform well in school,” the Mukono Anglican church head noted.
Global Junior School Mukono headteacher, Anthony Kato Ssentongo said that one of the priorities of the school is proper feeding for the learners, something which makes the pupils settled at school without any disturbance.
“We cannot take learners’ feeding for granted. However much we also have the best teachers, learning environment and the modern technology which makes our classes so lively, simplifying the tasks, but all that might be nothing if the learners are in class while hungry or thinking about food they left at home,” Ssentongo said.
The headmistress for St. Mary’s Junior School Ntenjeru, Agnes Namakula decried the poor teacher-parent-pupil relationship which she said has created a vacuum as far as jointly charting a way forward for better performance.
She also observed that when younger children have no role model to emulate in the family, they tend to relax because they have nobody to motivate them spiritually.
And Ssaalongo Henry Bazira the head teacher for Quality Junior School Kayanja clarified that no child should be discarded as hopeless and unable’ saying that what matters is the degree of commitment and love teachers create between themselves and their learners.
Bazira discouraged the tendency of making learners skip some classes, arguing that it will create an indelible vacuum in future as it will be too late for the children later on in their study, to recapture what they missed in the classes they skipped.
He also decried the tendency by some teachers to prioritise acquisition of money at the cost of imparting quality education; this he reasoned, in the long run reflects negatively on the standards of the school.
As the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) director Dan Odongo was releasing the 2024 PLE exams on Thursday January 23, 2025, he revealed that out of the 797,444 candidates that sat for PLE in 2024, 64,251 emerged ungraded because of extremely bad performance.
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