ST. PETER’S NURSERY AND PRIMARY SCHOOL, BUNAMWAYA
SCHOOL MOTTO: “NEVER GIVE UP.”
OUR MISSION
To equip the pupils with knowledge and skills that will help them become God fearing, creative, confident and self-reliant through practical teaching.
OUR VISION
To be a model school that produces a holistic child with skills to become a job creator.
BACK GROUND OF THE SCHOOL
- St Peter’s Nursery and primary school is located at Bunamwaya Lubowa Village, Bunamwaya division, Sabagabo Makindye Municipality, Kyadondo County in Wakiso district. It is about 6 miles from Kampala on Entebbe road, 750m off Entebbe road from Sseguku trading centre. It’s a private school which was started on 28th April 1994 by Mr. Ddamulira Mubiru Saul.
- The school was started with only 5 teachers teaching from nursery up to P.4 with 170 children. It was then operating in a rented building that was once occupied by a poultry farm. After a year, it shifted to a nearby land formerly owned by Mzee Katarina, where the school operated for only 4 months and soon shifted to its present location (from 1996 up to date). At that time the school was on a rented ground where classes had been built with temporary materials of papyrus mats and poles and were later restructured with wood.
- Early in 1999, the school managed to acquire a land of its own and soon embarked on electing permanent structures. By the end of 1999, a two classroom structure had reached on the slab plate and was temporarily roofed with old iron sheets. Two more classes were later added on, up to the slab too. At the same time, the wooden structures were still in use for the lower section. By then the school was growing up to P.7. In April 1999, the school was permitted to establish and operate on license by the Ministry of Education (Lic. No. ME/P/742).
- In the same year (1999), some of our teachers started to attend a modular course in Waldorf Steiner Education in Nairobi: an international teachers’ training based in South Africa in the Centre for creative Education.
- In 2005, the school was registered and classified as a private educational institution under registration number PPS/S/208.
- In 2006, the school also acquired a Uganda National examination board Centre number 530315.
SCHOOL STRUCTURE
PRINCIPLE ACTIVITY
The principle activity of the school is to provide quality practical education to all school going children between the age of 3 years to 16 years
FUNDING
The school is funded mainly through income generated from school fees charged from some able children and some donations from Zukunftstiftung Entwicklung (Future foundation for Development Germany).
SCHOOL CURRICULUM
The schools follows the Uganda Primary School Curriculum which aims at enabling learners to develop competences and life skills for lifelong learning. It emphasizes the importance of literacy, numeracy, language development, values, attitudes, cross-cutting issues and continuous assessment. The curriculum advocates for the use of friendly child-centred methods and approaches where learners must participate in their learning activities in order to make reasonable learning achievements. It aims at enabling learners to acquire self-confidence and meet the demands of life.
The Uganda Primary School Curriculum is presented in three cycles, namely:
- Lower Primary Curriculum (P.1 – P.3)
- Transition Curriculum (P.4)
- Upper Primary Curriculum (P.5 – P.7)
SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION
ADMINISTRATION
The school administration is comprised of: Board of directors, school management committee, PTA committee, school Head teacher, teaching and non-teaching staff plus the school prefect body
SCHOOL TEACHING AND NON TEACHING STAFF
The school has a staff of 11 Class teachers, 3 non-teaching staff (Cook, Night watchman, Secretary) and 5 teachers imparting practical skills to children in the following areas.
- Carpentry
- Tailoring
- Cookery
- Gardening
- Brick laying
- Metal fabrication
- Briquette making
- Art and craft
SCHOOL INFRASTRASTURE
The school has a big storeyed block which accommodates 7 primary classrooms, office plus one room for the preprimary section (kindergarten). In order to enlarge the preprimary, a new building for this section is under construction.
OUR ACHIEVEMENTS AND FUTURE PLANS
ACHIEVEMENTS
The performance of the children has greatly improved.
Practical skills have been imparted in some of our children.
Qualified teachers have been recruited.
Needy children can now access quality education.
Improved teaching techniques and methods have been adopted.
The youth in and out of school have also been taught practical activities and can now earn a living.
FUTURE PLANS OF THE SCHOOL
– Buying more land for agriculture.
– Fencing the school gardens.
– Constructing of dining hall.
– Constructing teachers’ houses.
– Constructing school dormitories.
– Buying a school van.
– Up grading our school compound with pavers.
OUR CONTACTS
Mr. Mubiru Saul Ddamulira.
Tel: +256751994531/ +256712994531.
Email: mubiru.saul@gmail.com
