Sunday 16 September 2012

Lukenya Schools' milestone


Lukenya Schools mark
20 years of hard work

By Martin Masai

LUKENYA Schools  are this year celebrating 20 years since the first of their institutions was founded.But much as attainment of 20 years  of great academic achievement is a great deal for a school by any standards, Lukenya Schools are seemingly taking it in their stride. To mark the day, the schools hosted what looked like a routine event- a Prize Giving Day. It is a routine in all their schools each year

This time round, they collapsed the Prize Giving Day to one huge, memorable event that will be remembered for many years, creating a new feature in the history of the Schools. The Prize Giving event is one of the many events that the school is undertaking to mark then 20 years.
“ We want to mark the anniversary, not as an episode, but as an experience. We are reflecting on the road we have traversed for the last 20 years as we focus on the way forward”, said a philosophical Director of Lukenya Schools, Mrs Martha Mulwa, herself an accomplished teacher.
According to Mr Bernard Lugado- Head teacher of Lukenya Academy, the 20th Anniversary for Lukenya Schools is a commemoration of a  great vision fulfilled and built on a foundation of success.
The Academy has become a school where children undergo value addition through carefully selected programmes and get grafted  to become successful citizens, Mr Lugado says.
He goes on “ The vision is God-fearing. It gives space for interdenominational pastoral work where all faiths are recognized. Holistic, disciplined, morally upright, emotionally stable characters and a solid academic foundation are out core products here”.
Mr Lugado says Lukenya Academy’s secret lies in pursuing an open policy with children- where all- including teachers- listen to one another and co-operate without instilling morbid fear in how teacher s and pupils relate.
“ We carefully input values of integrity, honesty and good citizenship so that the children grow up as acceptable people. We are driven by our school mottos- STRATEGY- a thinking that a design or a is desirable to attain higher goals,” says the head teacher.
Students in the school are told, he adds, that the education process they are undergoing in an investment in them by their parents who bear great costs. “ All we require them to give in return are god results. They hardly fail us”, he adds.
Over the years, the school has grown by leaps and bounds, proving separate schools for boys and girls and a British curriculum school and at the same time providing bursaries for children whose parents are unable to pay fees as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility undertaking.

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