THE 2016 Class Seven National Examination results were announced four days ago and some private-run schools scooped the ten top positions including Tusiime located at Tabata Kinyerezi in Dar es Salaam.
Reasons for this lead are obvious - that they have better learning facilities than public schools, plus friendly learning environment like food and reliable transport for non-boarders.
The lead does not mean that all the private schools countrywide performed well in the exams. In fact, some of them performed so poorly that some parents have started tendering complaints as to why they spent millions of shillings that did not help their children excel.
If you sit down and do a quick evaluation of some schools you may end up questioning why they shouldn’t be deregistered because they lack the required education standards.
Should a school like that one in Lake zone whose teachers were caught providing answers to pupils be allowed to exist? I think such institutions are time bombs to our nation and should be sent packing as soon as possible.
I have keenly looked at this year’s results, and Tusiime primary school has impressed me, because it has kept the passing record for the past four years consecutively, and that gives confidence to parents see value of the money spent on their children’s education.
This year for example, Tusiime had 210 pupils who sat for their class seven national examination and all of them scored the average of ‘A’ in all the subjects. Strangely, some very famous private schools in Dar es Salaam did not reach that level.
The school scored first position at district level, second position at regional level, while it came fifth in the overall national class seven national examination results, kudos to the Director of the School Mr. Albert Katagira.
The excellence of Tusiime has made me investigate more about this school and the factors making this school do well in examinations. This school provides boundless opportunities for intellectual, creative and personal growth, and teaching is consistently good and teachers are always striving to improve, planning lessons that excite the pupils and there is a strong focus on investigative approaches to learning in all lessons.
Tusiime believes that highclass academics go far beyond the classroom, and the pupils and students are immersed in experiences that have consistently made it do extremely well for the past few years.
I was informed that Tusiime diverse community of faculty and staff supports pupils and students and shares their characteristics of dedication, motivation, passion, perseverance, creativity and intelligence.
Together they have what it takes to turn thoughts into concrete ideas, potential into genuine ability and goals into tangible results, eventually making the school do well in examinations.
Excellent teachers are an essential ingredient for Tusiime, and the school is fortunate to have the resources to recruit and retain first class teachers who can bring the best out of each and every child. The school invests heavily in the development of its staff and sets high professional expectations.
The school educates boys and girls from Nursery to High School on three separate sites, and children progress through three distinctive schools but benefit from being part of a larger institution with an integrated curriculum and pastoral care system and access to first class Education.
I have also discovered that Tusiime promotes better education through supply of learning and teaching materials of high quality including story books, illustration, laboratory equipment and all other required materials.
At Tusiime, pupils and their teachers have been in position to simplify and consolidate learning and teaching using required teaching and learning resources thus improving the academic performance.
Tusiime is said to be offering quality support services for pupils and students to make their life at school better. These include medical Services, transport, clean and safe water, balanced diet, enough classrooms with maximum capacity of 40 students each, good dormitories (accomodating around 2300 pupils and students), sports and games, electricity, laboratory, library, computer laboratory and dining hall.
Following government commitment to improve quality of education as advocated in new Education Policy of 2014, the school management has embarked on three projects which are geared towards improving quality of education.
This project is aimed at improving the teaching and learning of science subjects within the school and also ensuring the availability and effective use of teaching and learning resources.
This ensures that students acquire required knowledge, skills and attitudes to meet expectations of labour markets. This min project at Tusiime is aimed at improving teachers’ pedagogical competencies in all subjects to meet the requirements of learner centered teaching and learning.
The school also conducts in-house training, refresher courses in areas of lesson planning, teaching methods and techniques, classroom management, assessment and evaluation. The monitoring department within the school coordinates the implementation of this project.
However, the capacity of monitoring department to conduct these in service training is limited in terms of e-learning resources like computers, and over head projectors. Any support in area will be highly appreciated.
This project aims at improving the use of English language as a medium of instruction within our schools and the teaching of English subject in classrooms. The focus is on assisting our teachers to be able to teach well the four language skills; reading, writing, speaking and listening.
However, given that English is a third language to most Tanzanians and scarcity of resources and skills, this project requires extra support to make it successful, and that is one of the major priorities of Tusiime.
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