REPORT OF THE WSWM PARENTS’ SEMINAR FOR ST. THOMAS AQUINAS SS, KASHAKI Held on Friday 4th March 2011 Submitted to SchoolNet Uganda By Tumwesigye Patrick Boss WSWM TSS (Teacher Support Specialist) Mobile: +256772858109
[email protected] Fig. 1: Some of the participants of the WSWM parents' Seminar 1 Table of Contents Page About the school 3 Rationale 3 WSWM parents’ seminar programme 3 Participants’ Introductions 5 Seminar objectives 5 Head teacher’s opening remarks 6 Remarks by respectable parent 7 Group Brainstorming 7 WSWM students’ mini exhibition 9 Group Presentations 10 Facilitators’ Harmonization 18 Introduction to WSWM curriculum 18 Youth Friendly Services 20 Closing remarks 21 Appendix 1 23 2 About St. Thomas Aquinas SS, Kashaki St. Thomas Aquinas SS, Kashaki is a mixed O’ level school. It is situated 7km from Kabale town on Bishop Bahram University road after Kigezi High School and Hornby Girls’ High School. The school has only a day schooling program. It is government aided and under the Universal Secondary Education (USE) housed in only two blocks. The school boosts of a student population of 185, 117 girls and 68 boys. The school also has a population of 15 teachers. Some students have to cover a distance of 4-10km to get to the school from the Kigezi hills. The school joined the WSWM program in 2009 and its two teachers were trained to implement the program. 1) Nuwomugizi Consolete 2) Arthur Balongo. Rationale In its eight years of implementation, WSWM program concentrated on the students and the teachers. The curriculum entirely benefited the two.