Ubasen Primary School to end afternoon classes
OMARURU – For the first time in over 50 years, Ubasen Primary School in Omaruru is preparing to do away with afternoon classes by putting up prefabricated structures.
Ubasen Principal Amalia Goses said the afternoon classes were necessitated by the annual increase in the number of pupils registering for school.
Goses said during the April-May school holidays the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture would assemble four prefabricated classrooms at the school to cover the need for more classrooms.
The school needs five classrooms to run all lessons in the morning.
Three Grade 2 and two Grade 1 streams attend lessons between noon and 17:00 through the platoon system that has been practised at school since inception in 1963.
According to Goses the school will use a wooden structure erected with the assistance of a partner school in Germany to cater for the fifth afternoon class.
“With assistance from the parents, we can add a concrete floor, and improve ventilation for the wooden structure to make it ready to host one of the classes.”
The principal said an end to afternoon classes will reduce complications encountered in planning meetings for all teachers, among other challenges.
Goses explained that some of the pupils come to school tired after playing the whole morning, especially in summer, and when school goes out during winter, it is nearly dark.
“Imagine eight-year-olds who have to prepare themselves for school in the afternoon because parents are at work.”
Director of Education in Erongo, John Awaseb said last week Tuesday the region had initially budgeted N$15 million to cater for six flats for teachers, two administration blocks and 16 classrooms, among them four at Ubasen.
However, with the prefabricated structures, the costs were reduced to N$7 million.
“It's a new idea and we hope it will help with the high demand for infrastructure, especially for inland schools in the region,” Awaseb said. - Nampa
Ubasen Principal Amalia Goses said the afternoon classes were necessitated by the annual increase in the number of pupils registering for school.
Goses said during the April-May school holidays the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture would assemble four prefabricated classrooms at the school to cover the need for more classrooms.
The school needs five classrooms to run all lessons in the morning.
Three Grade 2 and two Grade 1 streams attend lessons between noon and 17:00 through the platoon system that has been practised at school since inception in 1963.
According to Goses the school will use a wooden structure erected with the assistance of a partner school in Germany to cater for the fifth afternoon class.
“With assistance from the parents, we can add a concrete floor, and improve ventilation for the wooden structure to make it ready to host one of the classes.”
The principal said an end to afternoon classes will reduce complications encountered in planning meetings for all teachers, among other challenges.
Goses explained that some of the pupils come to school tired after playing the whole morning, especially in summer, and when school goes out during winter, it is nearly dark.
“Imagine eight-year-olds who have to prepare themselves for school in the afternoon because parents are at work.”
Director of Education in Erongo, John Awaseb said last week Tuesday the region had initially budgeted N$15 million to cater for six flats for teachers, two administration blocks and 16 classrooms, among them four at Ubasen.
However, with the prefabricated structures, the costs were reduced to N$7 million.
“It's a new idea and we hope it will help with the high demand for infrastructure, especially for inland schools in the region,” Awaseb said. - Nampa
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