The following is the report I received from Lorna, teacher at the Bukura tailoring school. First term started on January 5th, 2009 and ended on April 3rd, 2009. The school closed for the month of April and reopens on May 4th, 2009. I was able to spend a lot of time with students and parents this year and it was exciting to see the new students and the second year students getting started on learning. Student attendance – second year students responded well on the opening of the term. We had eleven students in the second year class, one boy and ten girls, then three other students joined the class as new students, so in total we closed the term with fourteen students in the second year, thirteen girls and one boy. The new intake in January was good, of which we admitted twenty one students, one boy and twenty girls. It was a good start and we hope it will be successful in the future. In total we closed school with thirty seven students. School academic - Students are really working very hard to acquire their future skills, we hope it continues that way. It is very positive as seen by the way last year candidates performed in their external exams, they all passed. I hope this year we will send a good number to external exams. The community is very pleased with the issue of taking student for external exams. Respond of parents - They are positive to the progress of the school. This was shown by the good respond of bringing their kids to school on time, they attended meetings when called for, we concluded by saying that they have motive towards the progress of the school and their children. Fees payments - The fees payments was good specially the new parents. Most of the students have finished the payments of the first term fees and registration. This has enabled us to have the license for this year 2009, open the school account and also to meet some of the problems we had at the start of the term for example the construction of four benches to create sitting materials for students. Due to the poor economy we have in our country, we agreed and managed to raise the school fees of the school from 1100 Kenyan shillings per year to 1700 Kenyan shillings per year starting this year for every student. Project for the parents - For the good progress of the school, parents have agreed to start a good lunch program for their kids when they are at school for five days a week. This has been a success in this last term. Production unit - The project has been started at school but due to poor economy it’s going on slowly by slowly because most of the money from items remains in debts. I hope as we are marketing the project in the future it will be a success Problems of the school - Thanks a lot for the machines heads you bought for us. We haven’t got the tables for them therefore there is a shortage of machines in the workshop. Hence students are sharing one machine which makes the work to be slow. Future plan - To have more machines to do better work and to have an embroidery machine to start embroidery work in the school. To have a big workshop to accommodate more students. Mrs. Lornah Mitungu School instructor
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