Mano Primary School December Issue, 2013
Newsletter
Linking up with St Ben.Sch
What a wonderful experience it is to link up with friends and other people from distant places and share ideas, ways of life, types of weather, clothes people wear and food they regularly eat.
Mano staff and pupils are excited that the link with St Benedict is appealing with the partnership expected to exchange notes.
Both head teachers Mr Steve Gumm and Mrs Annie Mweshi, St Ben and Mano Primary Schools have shown commitment and support for the link.
MANO, A SPECIAL SCHOOL
The school has over 1 000 children from Grades 1 – 9 divided into three streams; the main one, the Visually Impaired and the Hearing Impaired Units.
The Visually Impaired live in the school as boarders while the Hearing Impaired are day scholars.
Efforts have been made to have all these children learn in the mainstream with teachers taking those with special needs after normal lessons. The tricky part has been on the time-tabling as this exercise needs more teachers with special education qualifications such as skills in braille, and sign language.
Children& their clubs
The school has a variety of school curriculum activities with sports taking the centre stagewith annual sports festivals held in the first team of the school calendar.
There is also an active Drama club, and early this year the group performed a recital during the District Drama Festival.
Other clubs are the Choral, Traditional Dance, JETS
There are 43 teachers so far though some have sort for transfers deciding to work nearer their spouses. Majority are females with a handful of males teachers numbering four as the teaching staff.
CephasBwalya, a cricket coach at the local community club training Mano Primary School pupils. He has a regular program in the school
WHERE DO MANO PUPILS COME FROM?
The catchment area for children who attend Mano Primary School comes from a wide area; some from the peripheral nearby, others walk over five kilometres like Kamuchanga, Kantanshi, Kankoyo and Butondo.
The parents of the children, many of them insist they should bring their children to this school, otherwise, all the areas where the children come from, there are schools. But one cannot stop parents and guardians who decide which school their offspring should go to.
BRAIING AT
The Zambian Flag
The flag depicts the symbol of freedom and independence. The colours reflect the vegetation, the mineral rich land, the blood shed during the fight for political emancipation and black, represents the colour of the people
MANO DURING END OF TERM PARTY
During the end of Term Come-together party, lots of braiingand drinks
Dances ensued led by the head teacher Annie Mweshi(l) and her senior teacher JenalaMwale (r)
More and more dances and drinks and all sorts of beverages flowed to the excitement of all the teachers