Education

SUBJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN TAUGHT FROM 1962 TO 1997:   
Before the current syllabus was introduced by the Tanzania Ministry of Education and Culture in 1997, the following subjects were being taught

SUBJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN TAUGHT SINCE 1997 UNTIL NOW:  
According to the new curriculum introduced in 1997, Standard seven pupils have to sit for examinations in seven subjects as follows.

These are the lessons or subjects taught according to the National Syllabus.  Apart from these, computer knowledge is taught to our students, especially standard seven and six.

ASSESSMENT
Teachers are continually assessing children’s individual needs in the curriculum based on weekly tests, monthly and annual examinations. This enables them to make consistent assessment of pupils’ attainments and to plan appropriate work for each child.

DISCIPLINE
As children progress, they are encouraged to develop and grow independently thus gain self-confidence.  The children are led to respect each other, their parents teachers, elders and those who are associated with the school.  They are expected to be well mannered, courteous and polite and to take pride in their work, their appearance and the  school environment.  School rules are few but some are dictated by the need to create a safe environment.  The children are encouraged to think of the well-being of everyone in the school.  Each teacher is responsible for the behaviour management of her/his, class but the head-teacher has an overall responsibility for school discipline.
As a foundation for personal discipline, great emphasis is directed on punctuality.
The school is very conscious of the safety of the children and therefore particular care is taken to advise parents on the safest approach in escorting their children to school.

SCHOOL REPORTS
A written report of each pupil’s progress and development is sent out to the parents at the end of each term, in June and December. Teachers spend a great deal of time and effort writing these reports as fairly and honestly as possible.

ACADEMIC PROGRESS OF THE SCHOOL
The academic performance of the school is generally good, since it was started up to now, This is justified by observing the following facts:-
i).   The school has been the first in academic competitions for five years consecutively since 1996. This enabled us to be awarded a trophy by the Honourable Mayor of Mwanza City, Leonard Bihondo, on the 24thAugust, 2001.
ii).  Nyakahoja’s National and Mock examination results are commendable.  This gave us the first position in Mwanza district and the award of the first prize in 1999-2000.  
iii).  The Department of Inspection of schools from the district up to the national levels has been satisfied with the standard of running the school.  This enabled us to be awarded the first grade Inspection Certificate by the National school inspection director, Hon. R.A. Mpama on 14^th September, 2001.
Most of Nyakahoja Primary School leavers (alumni) succeeded joining government secondary schools. However some who received pass marks (A – C) were not selected to such schools because only a limited number of pupils can be admitted to the meagre government secondary schools. It can be clearly seen on table 1: that the passing rate for standard seven pupils from 1996 – 2001 was between 78% and 96% while the selection rate was only between 67% and 78%. Showing that between 14% and 42% of pupils who passed were not selected in the process. These pupils joined private schools where it is encouraging to note that they have always performed very well. The end result is that many of our former students are spread all over the world providing meaningful services in different fields. This is the final well-prepared product from Nyakahoja to the family of Tanzania and the world. We praise and thank the Lord for this achievement.

TABLE 1: 
NATIONAL STANDARD SEVEN EXAMINATION RESULTS AND SELECTION TO GOVERNMENT SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
STD  VII

It is quite obvious that the good performance of standard seven is not an accident, as shown by our standard four-entry examination. Both results are an outcome of a solid foundation for academic excellence which starts in our one year preparatory class.

TABLE 2: NATIONAL STD IV EXAMINATION RESULTS 1996 - 2001 STD. IV

ADULT EDUCATION  
The school runs Adult Education in the following subjects:
i)                    Reading, Writing and Counting  
ii)                   Sewing  
iii)                 Cookery  
iv)                 Agriculture  
v)                  Computer Skills

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