Africa-Press – Botswana. Yesterday ushered in a new dawn in the school calendar as for the first time this year, school bells rang to usher in a new academic year.
For the standard ones, a pervasive sense of disquiet ran through their nerves as the day marked the beginning of a journey that could determine their future.
On the contrary, it was a joyous reunion for the returning students who spent close to six weeks in the absence of each other’s company.
It was on this background that BOPA took off to some of the schools around Gaborone to get a glimpse of the first school calendar day.
Mogoditshane Primary School head teacher, Mr Samuel Setuke said in an interview that the first term always presented various challenges.
“It is worth noting that Mogoditshane Primary School is one of the oldest schools in the region, hence always experience an influx of standard one applicants, which results in overcrowding of both pupils and guardians every first day of the term,”Mr Setuke said.
The overcrowding, he said, impacted on the pupil -teacher contact time that should primarily be established and cemented during the first day at school
Similarly, Bophirima Primary School head teacher, Ms Mango Mogotsi stated that the school was experiencing high applications of pupils transfer ins, which she said could be due to the school proximity to Gaborone West neighbourhood.
“One should be cognizant of the fact that the school is in the heart of Gaborone West hence the high number of transfer ins applications,” she said .
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