Seeta Parents pupils' exhibition skills

By Juliet Waiswa

SOME parents take their children to schools with an intention of having classroom knowledge. Today’s parents think that taking children through practical work is not worth it, but this not the case.

Pupils have talents more than their parents can imagine. At a recent Science Fair for pupils of Seeta Parents Primary school, pupils displayed various skills including making liquid soap from herbal leaves, making charcoal,  producing biogas from cow dung in the school farm and also solar panels.

With their Fair theme: ‘Sustainable education through sciences and education’, the pupils displayed their skills according to their classes. Primary One pupils managed to come up with a small backyard garden to plant vegetables that they can consume at home and sell as well.

“People in towns do not have land, so they can use a box garden from used tins and basins or any container in their back yard,” Gift Kirabo a Primary One pupil explained.

The pupils said that other crops like soya beans, maize, vegetables like bugga and dodo can help guard  against malnutrition as well as be put on sale for income.

Other youngsters were able to make soya milk out of soya seeds, charcoal out of charcoal ash and matoke peelings mixed with anthill soil which they rolled into same hard charcoal balls.

"This charcoal is durable but expensive," explained one of them.

The P 1 pupils of Seeta Parents Primary School show how a vegetable garden should look like during the science exhibition at Seeta Parents Primary school. PHOTO by Ronnie Kijjambu

All the products exhibited at the Fair had unique features which could help the pupils in case they  failed to continue with their education.

One of the Primary Four pupils, Catherine Nabwami explained that besides consuming passion fruits content, one can also use the outer cover to make purple jam.

Products like solar panels were also displayed by the pupils.Two Primary Five pupils, Timothy Wakibi and Hope Mulungi said that solar power is cheap and affordable to everyone.

The head of sciences at the school, Tom Edward Omar said that the exhibition was one of the ways in which new ideas are created among the youth.

“We want to solve problems, promote scientific skills on matters of health and environment,” Omar said.