24 Jun 2018

 Teachers and students at Mokgalo Junior Secondary School have been urged to improve their academic results from 20 per cent to at least 60 per cent pass rate.
Permanent Secretary to the President Mr Carter Morupisi said this during a visit to the school in Lecheng recently.
Mr Morupisi also donated a television set, a DStv decoder with three months subscription and a satellite dish to Mokgalo junior saying they will also help to improve the students’ performance. He also gave the school two soccer balls and two balls for netball.
He said the donation was made possible with support from the Morupisi GR7 Group Foundation, adding that the foundation lured some business people to donate for the school.
He urged the school management and teachers to take care of the donated items.
Permanent secretary in the Ministry of Basic Education Dr Colley Monkge encouraged the school to work hard to improve results if they wanted to attract donors.
“There is no donor who wants to be associated with failure,” he said.
Dr Monkge said the success of Mokgalo JSS depended on teachers, adding that teachers and the school head had a lot of bearing on the future of students.
He urged teachers to change the way they did things and worked collectively as a team so that they were able to identify areas where students were struggling.
He urged them to do their scheme of work and lesson plans, adding that he was going to introduce a pre-observation reference form where teachers would be required to prepare for lessons and fill in the form.
He said after the lesson the observer would evaluate the lesson and help teachers improve on their lessons. Dr Monkge said the idea was not to find faults but  about growing teachers.
He urged teachers to attend classes regularly, give students work and mark it.
In addition, Dr Monkge said there were 275 junior schools in the country but none of them produced merits.
“The future of students is in your hands. Make them better than you are,” he said.
He asked them to capitalise on boarding students, adding that such students were capable of passing because they were manageable.
For his part, Central Region director Mr Sonny Mooketsi said the central region had eight sub-regions with 250 primary, 83 junior secondary  and 12 senior secondary schools.
Mr Mooketsi said even though Mokgalo Junior Secondary School was not excelling academically it was doing well in sport. Ends