TERM 2 REPORT (MAY-AUGUST 2025)
Warm greetings everyone! August 22nd, 2025 marks the end of term 2. I am so delighted with everyone we have moved the journey with since the start of our service at JCC. Your physical, mental, financial, and spiritual support have done us well at Joy Children’s Centre and the community at large. Term 2 started on May 26th with 102 pupils and ended on August 22nd,2025 with 100 pupils, 8 teaching staff members, 4 qualified and 2 continuing undergraduates and 2 unqualified, 4 support staff and 2 administrators. Term 3 of 2025 starts on September 15th. 41 pupils were enrolled this year to make a total of 107 pupils. The enrollment of pupils is done once a year for proper and balanced budgeting for our children and staff members. Therefore we look forward to enrolling new pupils next year 2026. Our appreciation goes back to our dear donors for their generosity and everything they are able to give to help the children and the community of Buluba fishing village. Most of our children could not read, write, or even construct a sentence or a word in English. To report now, our children can at least read, write, speak and comprehend some words of English. The journey is a process and we are seeing a great change happening in dressing, health, education because now there are no children staying at home with a school around them. This has also impacted the community that even the children that haven’t joined school can shout a word in English. We were very blessed to have our CEO Dr. Joy Ngobi and her team this summer at school. Their coming brought us together, more Joy and excitement. The Hillsdale team that spent more time with us and taking home visits to every home where these children are staying. The children were very happy having this time with the visitors.
I am glad to report that with everyone’s hand, prayers and best wishes, we are growing in most aspects of a school’s standard. None of the children missed out classes due to lack of scholastics materials and school fees. All our children got access to Education, Food, porridge with sugar every day, porridge was on some days served with milk at break time together with the staff members. I have seen our children happy and look healthier this year. Our parents are so thankful for all the support you have given to them by supporting their children. The school has the potential to grow bigger in the coming years. Parents are promising to give us more children by next year. However, we will take up a number we can afford to care for well with the resources. This can be thought of to help more children around to access good education. We also got some visitors at school and they are appreciating the work we are doing to impact the community.
Provision of Jobs to the local people
Smartness of our pupils by giving them another school sport’s wear plus a school t-shirt to our staff members.
Timely payment of the staff members.
Fasting and praying for our school, pupils, staff, donors and stakeholders. This was done by the parents, Teachers and a few pupils who could manage fasting.
Mid-term assessment accompanied with an opening class day where parents come to school to discuss with class teachers on how/ what to do to help their children perform well academically, socially, mentally, spiritually and physically.
Parents- Teacher meetings are held every once a term and about 2 meetings with the P.T.A committee members to share ideas, challenges and their solutions, achievements to help us improve as parents and teachers to our work smoothly.
A successful visit of dear donors to the school and the community.
Art and craft lessons to promote the hands-on talents that these children have in preparation for their day today life.
Music training, we realized that some of our children have talents in music, dance and drama that we want to promote and uplift their talents besides books.
Good feeding and health to our children and staff.
Sports have been part of us this term especially soccer after the hospital granted us the use of the hospital pitch. The Rotary club of Hillsdale also blessed us with a basketball board, Indoor games and soccer balls.
We have been able to repaint our classrooms and the office
We also had a general community cleaning as a school. This served as an example to our community leaders and people that learnt a lesson and were willing to do this often to keep the community clean.
As a school, our donors from the Rotary Club of Hillsdale bought us a sick bed where our children rest incase he/she is falls sick while waiting on his/her parent to pick them up.
Awarding gifts to the best pupils in each class from Nursery to Primary six as one way to motivate our learners to work harder and a small token to the active and self driven school staff. All these tokens were in the form of money.
Small space to accommodate our children to conduct classes
Limited number of teachers which has become an emergency now since we are growing everyday in the number of classes.
A nearby accommodation house for the staff needed.
Limited funds to pay our staff a minimum wage.
Poor kitchen that is not of standards for our health and this would be a priority need to be worked on.
Continuous professional development sessions tailored towards mindset, classroom management techniques, child protection policies, How to set standard questions, Use of newspapers in education.
Education tours to both teachers and the children aimed at acquiring ourselves with the new innovations in different schools and education in general and networking.
Integration of ICT in our learning sessions which is becoming the trend.
Shift in grading from the old passmark to target and new approaches to be used.
Making our art and craft quality better so that we go commercial.
Owning a big acreage of land to run a self-sustainable school.
Giving a trip to our staff once in a while at the end of the year for capacity building.
We hope to put a lot of emphasis on football and one hand ball game preferably volleyball or basketball for our children with the starting point being acquiring the training equipment and sourcing for training ground near by this will translate in EARR that is enrolment, attendance, retention, result and giving our children an opportunity to look beyond classroom alone.
To rent land to carry out agriculture ( corn and beans ) to provide food for the school.
Promote a saving culture at school for our dear parents to save for their children’s education.
Having an electronic way of sharing the children’s performance in class with our sponsors.