Minutes:
MEETING HELD BETWEEN ASAKO AND LST REPRESENTATVES
24 MAY 2016
Present:
Edward Omao HT
Ismail
Solola Chair of Governors
Stephen
Kameti TAS / KWS
AGENDA
- School
updates
- School
projects
- Way
forward (Action points)
SCHOOL UPDATES
a) School
population 384, i.e. Boys 182 and 102 girls
b) Staff
houses
Teachers
are paying their maintenance contributions promptly and direct to the bank by
playbill No 52522.
House repairs to
be completed by mid August 2016. Kameti Stephen will take photos of the
completed repairs as evidence.
c) Girls”
hostels are in use by a total of 23 i.e.17 from primary and 6 from secondary
section. This has motivated more girls
to board leading an increase from 94 to 102 of them.
d) Kora
mixed secondary school has a long term plan of being converted to purely girls only
and have boys joining another school. It has 24 students i.e. 17 boys and 7 girls.
It has 6 teachers ie 3 males and 3 females.
e) School
programmes towards improving the school
1. Increase
contact hours with students i.e. introduce early morning and evening preps.
2. Motivation
of teachers with whose KCSE subject scores of A to get Kshs 1000.
3. Teacher
to lead open discussions between teachers and pupils every Tuesday and engage
pupils in asking questions.
4. Ban
use of vernacular and make use of English language from Monday to Friday.
Way ford on the same
- Invite
motivational speakers to encourage girls to study
- Encourage
co-curricular activities (Sports and games)
- Improve
girls’ retention rates through by rewarding every girl who completes class
8.
- Bench
marking: Encourage completion by doing common exams with a sister school i.e.
Reiko primary school.
SCHOOL PROJECTS
School
projects in two categories i.e. big and small. Big that cost more than 150,000
and small with a cost of less than the same figure(150.000).
Include
the following:
- Education
tour
- Water
work ie gets water from KWS compound –Big
- Printer/photo
copier machine –Small
- Girls’
hostel with lighting ie solar-B
- TV/DVD/Recorder-S
- Administration
block-B
- Library
and equipments-B
- Painting
of school classrooms-S
- Tree
planting ( with availiability of water)-S
- Sports
equipment-S
- Desks,
chairs and tables-S
- Benchmarking-S
- Examination
materials-S
- Mentorship
programme ie motivation speaker, education days and specialized/thematic
talks.
ACTION PLAN/WAYFORWARD
- Do
a proposal for strategic projects i.e. urgent and most important. These
are 1. Trip 2.TV/DVD/ 3.printer 4.solar girls’ hostels.
- Repair
of staff houses to be ready by mid August 2016.
- Convene
a TAS/LST meeting at the school before 26/06/2016 and have a parents
meeting on the same day.
- To
invite KWS education team to visit the school and do conservation
education to the school community. A/P- Kameti to contact them.
- Kameti
to liaise with KWS concerning water project and see what they can do.
- The
head teacher to at least give updates on school progress after a
fortnight.
