We are marching on!
A big aim of this year is to improve on last year's performance in all exam classes. A PTA meeting was called to encourage parents to discipline and monitor their children's homework and performances in class tests. Teachers are to do weekly continuous assessment class tests. There will be the school end of the month tests and rewards.
From an extra curicular perspective the Scripture Union club has kicked off for 2022. There were 10 leaders who had attended a Scripture Union camp last year and they have been recruiting and telling the good news to others which is so exciting to see. That camp is being run again this year during the school holidays between the 22nd and 26th of April and the focus will be on leadership training and character building. The camp will host 400 campers from different schools around Lusaka. So far from Hope and Faith 156 students above the age of 13 have applied to attend it. The cost for the camp per pupil is 820 Kwacha and the school is offering a subsidised option where student are ask to pay 100 Kwacha. The school has been appealing to well wishers and parents to help raise the funds needed for the subsidised tickets.
At the start of March Investrust Bank here in Lusaka ran a week long financial literacy workshop for young people covering topics such as financial management and Investment. The school was invited to send some of our senior pupils to these workshops and we managed to send 10 students.
Hope and Faith was also included in The Green Schools Campaign which is about creating awareness on the importance of personal hygiene and encouraging schools to have clean and green surroundings and also the importance of a healthy environment. The school received boxes of soap, sanitiser and bags of mealie meal (corn flour).
In the last term of last year Hope and Faith was one of 2 schools chosen to pilot a campaign on the prevention of early marriages, sexual harassment, prevention of HIV and AIDS and its mitigation. Off the back of that training the school will be running this program throughout this year. The students who were trained last year have began training school prefects and few others within the community. It is being delivered through drama, song and dance and the local clinic is also working with the school to do free tests for HIV and AIDS.
The latest on the construction of the school hall is the at the start of April the builders have begun backfilling the foundation which has us all very excited to see the great progress being made.
We very very grateful that the school feeding program is going well thanks to the funds received from Anglican Aid in Australia.
You can join us in praying for the following;
For the success of the school academic program that we have put in place
Pray for teachers to encourage the pupils in spiritual growth in the classroom
Pray that the Lord will help us to raise enough funds to send over 100 pupils to the Scripture Union camp, especially some senior students
Help us to thank God for the building project and for the community’s good will