In Brief
May 13, 2007
SCHOOLS have been urged to improve communication to ensure that parents attend all parents’ meetings.
Education official warns
SCHOOLS have been urged to improve communication to ensure that parents attend all parents’ meetings.
John Agira, a senior inspector from the Education Standards Agency, recently said: “Parents who do not attend school meetings are easily confused by their children.†Agira was addressing parents and teachers of St. Kaggwa High School.
He said research has found that students perform better when parents follow what their children do at school.
Mayor urges on talent
MAYOR Mohammed Kezaala has advised headteachers and parents to help children identify their talents. Kezaala was addressing headteachers and students of secondary schools that are involved in the Coca Cola Tournament at Kakundi Stadium.
“Most people are poor and lack jobs, yet talents like football can sustain them,†Kezaala said. Kennedy Mutenyo, the promotions manager of Coca Cola Company, said the programme that has lasted 15 years, aimed at investing funds in football tournaments, supplying uniforms, balls and helping disadvantaged children. “Sh224m has been earmarked for the programme this year,†he added.
Demystify mathematics
PRIMARY school teachers have been urged to encourage their pupils to love Mathematics.
Muzamiru Menya, the district education officer, said: “Many learners could pass Mathematics if the subject was treated as an easy one.
If teachers put in more effort, they can demystify Mathematics.†He was recently closing a Mathematics workshop for primary school teachers from Busoga region.
Do not neglect disabled kids
DISTRICTS should set up special units for children with disabilities, the Member of Parliament for people with disabilities (Eastern), Julius Balyejusa, has said.
Addressing teachers at Kamuli Township School, recently, Balyejusa said: “Such children should not be left out because they are also part of our community.â€
He hailed the Government for addressing the needs of disabled children. Balyejusa urged teachers to set up a data base for disabled children to help them find assistance from well-wishers.
He urged the community to carry out house-to-house checks to save disabled children who are being neglected by their parents.
Kamuli Head Teachers Association chairman Godfrey Samanya said the district lacks teachers trained to attend to such children, sign language interpreters and other facilities.
Youth want LRA to free children
THE youth in northern Uganda have petitioned the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) leadership to release all the children in their captivity as a sign of commitment to the Juba peace talks.
According to the youth, the move would enable the children benefit from Government’s universal primary and secondary education programmes.
After a march in Gulu town recently, the youth presented the petition to the Acholi Paramount chief, Rwot David Onen Acana II. “We ask the LRA high command to unconditionally release all the children and non-combatants as a gesture of commitment to the peace process.
This will allow the children to join school as the peace negotiations go on,†the petition, presented by Jenifer Achan a pupil at Holy Rosary Primary School.
SCHOOLS have been urged to improve communication to ensure that parents attend all parents’ meetings.
John Agira, a senior inspector from the Education Standards Agency, recently said: “Parents who do not attend school meetings are easily confused by their children.†Agira was addressing parents and teachers of St. Kaggwa High School.
He said research has found that students perform better when parents follow what their children do at school.
Mayor urges on talent
MAYOR Mohammed Kezaala has advised headteachers and parents to help children identify their talents. Kezaala was addressing headteachers and students of secondary schools that are involved in the Coca Cola Tournament at Kakundi Stadium.
“Most people are poor and lack jobs, yet talents like football can sustain them,†Kezaala said. Kennedy Mutenyo, the promotions manager of Coca Cola Company, said the programme that has lasted 15 years, aimed at investing funds in football tournaments, supplying uniforms, balls and helping disadvantaged children. “Sh224m has been earmarked for the programme this year,†he added.
Demystify mathematics
PRIMARY school teachers have been urged to encourage their pupils to love Mathematics.
Muzamiru Menya, the district education officer, said: “Many learners could pass Mathematics if the subject was treated as an easy one.
If teachers put in more effort, they can demystify Mathematics.†He was recently closing a Mathematics workshop for primary school teachers from Busoga region.
Do not neglect disabled kids
DISTRICTS should set up special units for children with disabilities, the Member of Parliament for people with disabilities (Eastern), Julius Balyejusa, has said.
Addressing teachers at Kamuli Township School, recently, Balyejusa said: “Such children should not be left out because they are also part of our community.â€
He hailed the Government for addressing the needs of disabled children. Balyejusa urged teachers to set up a data base for disabled children to help them find assistance from well-wishers.
He urged the community to carry out house-to-house checks to save disabled children who are being neglected by their parents.
Kamuli Head Teachers Association chairman Godfrey Samanya said the district lacks teachers trained to attend to such children, sign language interpreters and other facilities.
Youth want LRA to free children
THE youth in northern Uganda have petitioned the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) leadership to release all the children in their captivity as a sign of commitment to the Juba peace talks.
According to the youth, the move would enable the children benefit from Government’s universal primary and secondary education programmes.
After a march in Gulu town recently, the youth presented the petition to the Acholi Paramount chief, Rwot David Onen Acana II. “We ask the LRA high command to unconditionally release all the children and non-combatants as a gesture of commitment to the peace process.
This will allow the children to join school as the peace negotiations go on,†the petition, presented by Jenifer Achan a pupil at Holy Rosary Primary School.