Ndhiwa primary hunts for triumph in 2013 exams

By Wilson Oduor, Owiti Nicholas, Maureen Wanga & Michael Gonga

Ndhiwa primary school in Homa-Bay County is prepared to give a big shock to the nation as 99 candidates registered for national exams in 2013 shows commitment in their work with their competent teachers completing syllabus coverage as early as July.

This quest for better performance comes after desire for teachers to show their glorious hard work peeps in their ever smiling face with expectation of becoming academic champs in Ndhiwa Sub County.

In an interview conducted by Ndhiwa citizen’s voices to the school academic department, it was realized that the school has registered 54 girls against 45 boys which is quiet encouraging as compared to their past records where boys had been dominating the population, this is an encouraging factor as it proves to take care of gender parity.

In examination preparation, the department responsible for exams confirmed that they have been conducting internal exams in two days a week and spending the rest of the days in district and county exams respectively. 

Most teachers are therefore committed in offering remedial lessons for revision of examination papers. From this hard work the academic department expects the candidates to break past records by producing about three quarters scoring above average and a quarter is highly expected to get above three hundred marks.

With an interest to know about immorality cases which is affecting most of the schools in the region, the Ndhiwa citizen’s voices were very keen to know if there were such cases in the school.

The department was so proud to report that so far there were no cases of sexual assault on any of their pupils and that the school conducts pregnancy test on their girls regularly. They also confirmed that most of the pupils together with the teaching staff stays within the township hence the teachers closely monitor movements of their pupils.

As part of life challenges the reporters also noted that the schools mean grade is affected by the high population registered candidates as compared to low number of teachers that stands at 21. Orphaned children were also reported to be suffering from frustrations due to lack of necessities and ineffective parental guidance.