Bubaare Secondary School
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School Mission:

1. To set minimum standards of entrance

2. To promote unity among all stakeholders of Bubaare

3. To motivate teachers, students and parents relationship

4. To motivate students, teachers, parents and guardians in their participation in      school programmes.

 

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF BUBAARE SECONDARY SCHOOL

Bubaare Secondary School is a young one and now is in her 23rd year since its inception in 1983.

Bubaare Secondary School started early 1983 in a humble way.  It was in the Bubaare Boarding Primary School premises and classes.

It was started by the Bubaare church as a private secondary school and Mr. Kiyundo as its first headteacher currently a commissioner in the Ministry of Education and Sports.  Its registration number was PSS/B/25 Bubaare Secondary School with classification category ‘O’ Level mixed day.

Pioneer enrollment in S1 in 1983 was 82 students but by S4 in 1986 only 57 sat UCE exams.  They got 1 student in division one and no failure.

The school became government aided in 1984 with the assistance of Hon Mateke by then the Minister of State for Education that had come to preside over the fundraising function of the same school.

Bubaare Secondary School was upgraded to the level of A’ Level in 2001 during the term of office of Mr. Elifaazi Twino-Buhungiro.  The school had operated it since 1998 on a private basis.

The school has been growing both horizontally and vertically. In the beginning it had only 8 members of teaching staff with the headteacher as the only qualified staff but by now we are a work force of 47 teachers and all qualified.

The school has classroom, library, dining hall, an office complex, a truck, a computer lab, DSTV, Internet gadgets and a science lab and a few housing units for staff.  It has gone a big stride.

The school was started with ultimate objectives of accessing children from humble backgrounds affordable education without compromising quality and quantity.  At the same time offer services to the immediate community where the school is located and beyond with a view of being community needs driven venture.

Mr. Chairman and fellow participants, I am happy to report to you that a big percentage of the aforementioned objective have been achieved and once a dream turned into a reality.

Let us have a glance to some statistics of academic performance since 1991.

SUMMARY OF THE PROGRESSIVE PREVIOUS YEARS RESULTS FROM 1991

 
YEAR

 

DIV 1

 

DIV 2

 

DIV 3

 

DIV 4

 

DIV 7

 

DIV 9

TOTAL NO. OF CANDIDATES

1991

000

000

006

020

000

018

041

1992

000

002

010

019

000

021

043

1993

001

002

011

009

000

020

043

1994

001

001

012

012

002

015

043

1995

001

007

007

019

000

007

043

1996

001

009

018

014

000

002

044

1997

005

013

030

014

000

002

064

1998

005

020

031

007

002

001

066

1999

006

037

028

011

001

002

085

2000

013

049

043

013

000

001

119

2001

008

043

072

037

002

010

172

2002

006

035

080

043

001

009

174

2003

011

064

080

036

000

011

202

2004

010

050

067

038

000

013

178

Over the years enrolment has been increasing without corresponding improvement in performance in division one.  The curve has remained negatively skewed indicative that our performance falls below the expectations of the stakeholders.  The trend has to be addressed aggressively if we are to meet the ultimate aims of Bubaare Secondary School as envisaged in the school motto that runs thus TOIL FOR PROGRESS.

 

Achievements/Successes of Bubaare Secondary School

·        Provides affordable education to children from humble backgrounds.

·        Provides employment opportunities

·        The school community has a high purchasing power and the multiplier effect is being noticed around.

·        It boasts of many graduates at grade III teacher levels, Diploma holders and University graduates.

·        Infrastructures have been put in place and the environment looks good.

·        Enrolment has increased.

·        Internet services are being enjoyed

·        UPE graduates have been catered for through absorption

·        Has attracted support of non-governmental organisations.

·        Power and water in place.

 

Failures\Bottlenecks of Bubaare Secondary School

·        School has not been passing students to the expectations of the stakeholders.

·        Best performing students at UCE level opt to go to more advanced ones causing a brain drain.

·        Recruiting students into senior one and five with not a sound academic background.

·        Little attention has been given to vocational and technical subjects.

·        Little deliberate efforts have been made by the school authorities to educate her neighbours that they are partners in development.

·        Records’ keeping is still wanting and yet is a very important ingredient in management of public institutions.

·        Reconciling the cost of living with the meagre revenue of the school has not been adequately addressed given about 2/3 of the staff not being on the payroll of the government.

 

Challenges of Bubaaare Secondary School

 

·        Regardless of inadequate pedagogical facilities, we are expected to compete with other school and produce desired results. 

·        Ensuring good discipline with the view of observing childrens’ rights.

·        Attitude of students towards mathematics and English language has not been promising and yet these are determinants of divisions one at O’ Level.

·        The ban of recruitment of teachers by the government since 1997 leaves a lot to be desired.

·        A school with an enrolment of 1000 students and plus to have its staff ceiling fixed at 24 of teachers and support staff constrains the parents as chief funders.

·        Passing students at UCE and UACE levels recruited with unsound academic background is an uphill task.

·        Parents are the chief funders to the school thus limiting revenue base as their economic plight is a humble one.  According to the findings of Ghona hasa’s report performance correlates with the level of income. 

·        Graduates of Bubaare Secondary School hardly come back to share their experiences to their sisters and brothers as a way of encouraging and inspiring them.  Bubaare Secondary School has no Association of old boys and girls. 

·        The school still lacks basic infrastructures like classrooms, science labs, equipment, chemicals, teaching aid, textbooks, staff quarters, accommodation to boarding students all of which have a direct bearing on the performance of the teachers and students.

·        Adjudicating our UCE and UACE results using the same paramters to those of schools that take students of very good division ones at PLE and UCE levels and with better facilities demolarises us as teachers and students.

·        Making a breakthrough from a developing school to an advanced one given the inadequancies of the said variables ranging from the type of recruitment of students, negative attitude to hard work, underfunding by both government and parents plus lack of basic teaching and learning facilities to the ceiling level of staff of 24 four school works!!

·        Meeting the ever-increasing demand of the boarding facility to access electricity, library and clean water.

·        Irregular attendance of students at school.

·        Lack of counselling and career guidance services in our school is a big impediment.

·        Lack of strategic plans in plan in place as a guiding document.

·        Finally, the school has been operating as an island and failing to open herself to her “owners” who are partners so that ideas could be generated and consumed for her growth and prosperity.