Motto
"Education for all, sundry is a tool to success"
Mthombwesizwe, meaning well of the nation. Derived from the peopled led by King
Lobengula who were often addressed as Isizwe saMaNdebele and they fetched their
water from this well. The well is still intact on the southern part of the school
even now.
Date Established
01 January 1988
Enrolment on Inception
Boys |
623 |
Girls |
630 |
Total |
1 253 |
Teachers |
30 |
Current Enrolment
Boys |
660 |
Girls |
699 |
Total |
1 359 |
Teachers |
35 |
Location of the School
Number 33766 Muzomuhle Road, Entumbane. It is situated N/W of the Central
Business District a distance of 10.5km from the City Centre.
Curriculum Offered
Zimbabwe Primary Curriculum which includes the following subjects: Math,
Ndebele, English, Social Studies, Environmental Studies, Religious and
Moral Education, Physical Education, Art and Craft, Music, Home Economics
and Aids Education.
Achievements
- Good Grade 7 results over the years.
- Good rapport between staff and parents.
- Establishing a formidable rugby team.
- Having tennis courts within the school premises.
- Qualified teaching personnel all the years.
- Good relations among teaching and non-teaching staff.
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Good rapport within the non-governmental organizations, district
offices, provincial offices as well as responsible authority offices.
- 2001 Cluster Award by the Provincial Director.
- 2006 Merit award.
- 2007 Shield for rugby team.
- 2010 Medal for our athletic and rugby teams.
Clustering – Academic and Sporting
The following disciplines are offered at the school and cluster level;
Netball, Soccer, Rugby, Athletics, Tennis, Volleyball, Cricket, Quiz,
Drama, Music and Traditional dance. The school has always fared well in
Rugby and Athletics within the cluster. We also have interest in Cricket
discipline save that we do not have adequate resources.
Composition of Support Staff
Made out of both professional and non-professional staff. Qualified Bursar
and Clerk. Caretaker of acceptable level and messenger. Two grounds men.
Clerical Staff
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Assist in the enrolment of pupils, collection of fees and levies.
Assist as advisors in financial matters of the school. Keep record
of school finances, school expenditure and income. Do banking of school
funds. Do requisition of learning materials and uniforms for non-
teaching staff and orders for the tuck-shop. Do all the financial returns.
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At times assist in compiling information on burglary and thefts and
reporting to the police.
- Keeping inventory records of all assets in the school including textbooks.
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Typing of all school correspondence and local tests, and keeping all
school records.
Caretaker
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In charge of the equipment in the school e.g. tools, furniture in the
administration block and classrooms.
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Does minor repairs, cleans offices, monitoring the security school
fence, keeping keys for all classrooms as well as administration block.
Ensure that security personnel from Council assume their duties on time.
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Ensures that security personnel are conversant in the handover
takeover duties.
- Assist in the cleaning and development of the school grounds.
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Ensures that the fireguard around the school fence is maintained
at all times.
- Ensures that school toilets have appropriate cleaning materials.
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Opens classrooms at the start of the day and locks them up at the
end of the days.
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He is on duty seven days of the week inclusive of weekends and
holidays.
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Reports to the police as soon as he notices any burglaries o
thefts in the school.
Grounds Men
- Cleans both staff and pupils™ toilets daily.
- Cleans school grounds.
- Maintains school orchard and at times the school garden.
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Assisting the caretaker in most of his duties. At times
they are used as messengers for nearby errands.
Messenger
- Does all the school errands to the Provincial Offices, District Offices.
- Responsible authority Offices, neighbouring schools and business communities.
- Assist in collecting school orders e.g. textbooks, stationery etc.
- Collection of quotations in business shops.
- Cleans school offices.
- May at times act as the caretaker in his absence.
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Collects and takes mail from the Post Office, Responsible Authority
Offices, Provincial offices and district offices.
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Rapport between support and professional staff is commendable to a large
extent. They come in handy when it comes to supporting school events such
as Sports and Prize Giving Day just to mention but a few.
Role of Council In The Administration
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It is the responsible authority that built the school and procured
furniture for classrooms and administration offices.
- Determines Council levies.
- Pays non-teaching staff.
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Pays for all services and maintenances of the school, e.g. water,
telephone, maintenance of toilets, broken window panes and burst pipes.
Report of broken fences and roofs, broken pipes, taps etc.
- Processing of school requisitions.
- Assist in the budgeting for the school.
- Monitors and advises on all school finances.
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It also assists in the solution of some crunch problems faced by
the school.
- Supplies educational and cleaning materials.
- Assists in school renovations.
P.T.A.
- They are an arm of the Council.
- Assist the school with funds for minor and long term projects.
- They do minor repairs.
- Avail funds for school immediate needs.
- Assist in the selection of needy pupils who might need assistance e.g. BEAM.
Challenges
- The ever high enrolment compromises resources.
- Because of high enrolment payment of fees and levies is not done timeously.
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elderly parents, and illiterate parents. These contribute to the
non-payment of fees.
- High rate of unemployment.
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School catchment area is wider than most of the school at Entumbane.
We have to enroll pupils from Richmond and Emakhandeni suburbs.
- Shortage of essential resources like books, accommodation for classes which results in hot seating. Lack of school library.
- Large teaching staff.
- Lack of modern equipment e.g. photocopiers, faxes and e-mails.
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Poverty resulting in some of pupils coming to school without having
eaten anything.
- We do not have enough grounds to accommodate all sporting disciplines.
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In most of our projected projects, we cannot carry them out without
the aid of donors.
Projections for the Future
- Trim enrolment and staff say a thousand pupils and below.
- Do away with hot seating.
- Introduce a culture of reading by putting up a library.
- Enhance security in administration office e.g. putting up safeguard alarms.
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Enact a strong policy on enrolment which shall make it easy for payment
of levies and fees.
- Educate community on importance of education.
- Teaching of computers to Grade 0-7.
- Building a computer room.
- Building E.C.D. block.
- Building a school library.
- Building K.G. toilets.
- Introducing practical subjects Woodwork and Home Economics.
- Procuring a school vehicle for speedy attention to some of our records.