28 Feb 2018

Although Kgari Sechele II Senior Secondary School is one of the schools that have not been performing satisfactorily, its head, Mr Lapologang Kolagano is optimistic that with time they will be able to achieve impressive results.

The school head revealed in an interview that he is not impressed with the 2017 Form V results, but there was light at the end of the tunnel.

The recently released Botswana General Certificate for Secondary School (BGCSE) show that Kgari Sechele II was in position 24 with only 19.35 per cent pass.

“Although our results are not what we expected there is a slight improvement when we compare them with the 2016 results.
In 2016 we were at position 28 with 17.79 per cent.

There is a variance of 1.54 per cent improvement.

Although the variance may not be that much it must be commended because it shows that something positive has been done and if it continues to be done we will be where we desire to be” he said.

Mr Kolagano noted that for the past years the school had been performing badly, but they were doing everything in their power to change the dynamics.

“We have introduced a few strategies that we are also hopeful that they will give the results a boost.

Strategies include sending students to boot camp where they are equipped with different skills and knowledge and where we work on their mindset.

Students also formed with study groups such as Target 48, where they are working really hard to obtain 48 points on their last examination.

These are some of the efforts that contributed to the 1.54 per cent variance” said the school head.

When commenting on subject performance, Mr Kolagano revealed that Chemistry performed better than others as it scored 78 per cent.

He further noted that they could have performed better as they normally score over 80 per cent pass.

He added that Computer Studies and art are also some of the subjects that scored over 70 per cent while Development Studies, Mathematics and languages scored less than 30 per cent pass rate.

He said an intensive research would be carried out to identify the weaknesses that needed to be improved in order for all subjects to score at least over 50 per cent.

“This will mean more extensive hard work will be put in place and we should have good relationship with parents.

Though we are still haunted by some of the parents who do not want to be fully committed and supportive to their children’s school work we have engaged Parent Teachers Association (PTA) to intervene” he said.

He continued to state that there are some teachers who are enthusiastic with their work while there are others who are still lagging behind with their performance.

“Such teachers are the ones who are contributing to students performing badly even though the bulk of the teaching staff is focused on the school work.

Such issues will be dealt with thoroughly and students will be disciplined comprehensively in order to improve their results” he explained.

Though the school may have scored poor results, they have managed to produce two students who outsmarted the rest.
 Motheo Kabuo and Katlo Galefete managed to score 6A* each. Ends