Africa-Press – Botswana. Embracing mindset change and beginning to do things differently remains a key component in improving the school’s academic performance.
Speaking at Maraka Junior Secondary School’s prize giving ceremony in Lotlhakane recently, CEDA chief operations officer, Mr James Moribame therefore encouraged learners, teachers, parents and other relevant stakeholders to embrace mindset change in order to better the school’s examinations results.
Mr Moribame advised learners to always be on their best behaviour by respecting all the people they interacted with, saying that would assist them to prosper in their studies.
“Education moulds learners into responsible future leaders, hence the need for you to take your studies seriously,” he added.
Southern region chief education officer, Ms Barulaganye Moseki thanked all stakeholders for their efforts in improving school examination results.
Ms Moseki however highlighted the importance of good behaviour, which she said attributed to positive results.
“Disciplined learners always prosper in their studies, your behaviour contributes to how you are going to turn up in life,” she said.
She advised learners to form study groups which she said would also work as support groups and in turn motivate and guide others who were not focused on their studies.
She also urged learners to stay away from alcohol and drugs to avoid destroying their future.
“If you use drugs and alcohol, you might end up in mental institutions or prisons and you will be working against government’s efforts of building well rounded learners who would fit well in the society,” she said.
For her part, the school head, Ms Smilet Magwegwe said the event was meant to award those who performed better than others and also encourage all learners to appreciate the value of hard work in line with vision 2036.
As a school, she said they intended to develop wholesome responsible future citizens, who were educated, knowledgeable, compassionate, cooperative and hardworking.
She highlighted that in the year 2021, their school performance was at 20.6 per cent and moved to 38.9 per cent last year, hence the celebration.
“We added value of 18.3 per cent and we hope that we shall continue adding value to reach the regional target, which is 50 per cent,” she added.
However, Ms Magwegwe explained that they encountered various challenges that led to low performance such as indiscipline, poor reading culture and high rate of learners with learning difficulties, inadequate supervision as well as low parental care.
Other challenges, she said included lack of resources, shortage of classrooms, non-functioning science laboratories, shared accommodation as well as the dilapidated school buildings.
Nevertheless, she said in an effort to arrest such challenges, they had arranged for extra lessons, encouraged parents to check their children’s school work, workshop employees, reward good performance, organise reading and writing competitions, forming debate club as well as intensifying class visits by management.
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