Kitebi school gets classrooms
Aug 08, 2009
THE Government has constructed a four- classroom block at Kitebi Secondary School, Rubaga Division in Kampala, to boost its double shift teaching system.
By Ronald Kalyango,/b>
THE Government has constructed a four- classroom block at Kitebi Secondary School, Rubaga Division in Kampala, to boost its double shift teaching system.
“The double shift system is intended to help reduce congestion,†said education minister Namirembe Bitamazire.
The double-shift system is where a school runs two teaching shifts on one curriculum, for two sets of students.
Bitamazire, who was commissioning the classroom block at Kitebi on Tuesday, said the introduction of Universal Secondary Education (USE) in 2007 increased the enrolment in Senior One. However, the move was not matched by more classrooms, she noted.
Initially, the USE programme targeted a class of 60 students, but in 2007, out of the original 791 schools participating in USE, 243 of them had over 80 students per stream.
In Kampala, Kitebi and Luzira secondary schools are piloting the teaching system.
Bitamazire was confident that through the double shift strategy, the Government would sustain Universal Primary Education since more children will be absorbed into secondary schools.
She said the schools which were initiated into the scheme had as many as 1,000 students in senior one and two.
Kitebi head teacher Florence Tinkumanya, said when the school started the double shift programme, some parents took their children to private schools.
“It has not been easy to implement the programme, but with more sensitisation, we are getting stable and some of the students who were earlier moved had been brought back,†Tinkumanya said.
THE Government has constructed a four- classroom block at Kitebi Secondary School, Rubaga Division in Kampala, to boost its double shift teaching system.
“The double shift system is intended to help reduce congestion,†said education minister Namirembe Bitamazire.
The double-shift system is where a school runs two teaching shifts on one curriculum, for two sets of students.
Bitamazire, who was commissioning the classroom block at Kitebi on Tuesday, said the introduction of Universal Secondary Education (USE) in 2007 increased the enrolment in Senior One. However, the move was not matched by more classrooms, she noted.
Initially, the USE programme targeted a class of 60 students, but in 2007, out of the original 791 schools participating in USE, 243 of them had over 80 students per stream.
In Kampala, Kitebi and Luzira secondary schools are piloting the teaching system.
Bitamazire was confident that through the double shift strategy, the Government would sustain Universal Primary Education since more children will be absorbed into secondary schools.
She said the schools which were initiated into the scheme had as many as 1,000 students in senior one and two.
Kitebi head teacher Florence Tinkumanya, said when the school started the double shift programme, some parents took their children to private schools.
“It has not been easy to implement the programme, but with more sensitisation, we are getting stable and some of the students who were earlier moved had been brought back,†Tinkumanya said.