Minutes:
Notes of a meeting at Mitamysi Secondary School
on 19 October 2019
Present:Paul Nzuki
Principal, Acothy Ndoo, Gideon Kitheka (PTAchairman), Samuel Mutemi (Chief), AN other teacher.
.In attendance: Stephen
Kameti and Gill Marshall-Andrews
School update:
There are 10 teachers – 6 from TSC (one more in January) , 4
BOM (parent funded).
School roll has increased:
107 in 2018, 134 in 2019 , 164 are expected in Jan 2020.
This has put pressure on classrooms. One of the old rooms cannot accommodate 54
students in Form 1 so they are using the science lab.
Parents are building another classroom.
More boys are enrolling because of the girls dormitory. In form 1 there are 34 girls and 19 boys. There are 82 girls in the dormitory, 34 of
them are in Form 1.
KCSE exams start next week and the candidates are working
hard. The target is mean score of 3.02
which would be a great improvement on 2018 score of 2.02.
Tree planting has come on apace. 1000 holes have been dug, there is an
environment club who are responsible for watering and caring for the trees when
then are planted.
Projects:
The emergency staff house is a great asset as it enables two
teachers to stay on site with the boarders.
The money TAS provided – 174k – was exceeded. Parents paid an additional 144k.
The ASDF tank has had problems. With heavy rain in April it worked well and
the tank filled. But it rained lightly
in September and the original underground pipes from the gutters to the tank
burst because the rain wasn’t heavy enough to push the water up into the tank! Now new gutters have been fitted overground and
it is hoped they will work.
In July the pump for the community borehole 1 km away
broke. The County Government have
promised to repair it. The school had
been buying water ever since at 3000/- per day.
GMA asked for an estimate of the
money the school has spent on water this year.
The vegetable garden has died.
Future projects:
Boys dormitory is top priority.
A fence is now the second priority because the school has
been gifted additional land that it wants to consolidate. Also to protect the trees and for security. The total fence line would now be 1500m.
A shade banda is very much needed too. This could be converted to a workshop in due
course with sewing machines and jewellery tools.
A DVD player is also requested to serve both teaching and
extra curricular purposes.
