End of school year report

We have come to the end of the year 2012.We thank you all for everything that you are doing for us. We are most grateful to our friends and family for standing with us throughout the 3yrs that we have been operating. You are very important people in our lives. Because of you we have been able to overcome most challenges that come our way.

The kids are a happy lot due to the great support that they get from you our friends. They are always looking forward to when visitors came to the school. They were taught a Norwegian song about the parts of the body and they always sing it to all our friends. The kids in our class four wish that they don’t have to go to other schools for their class five. Unfortunately they have to move to other schools because we don’t have enough classrooms and other facilities that can enable them to stay on. We also wish that they could stay because we are used to having them around.

Next year we are hoping to enroll new kids in the baby class because the kids in that class are moving on to the nursery class. We hope and trust that we will be able to provide for them quality education and also provide the feeding programme. We are thinking of adding one more teacher to the members of staff so that the teacher pupil ratio will be appropriate.

The licensing process for 2013 should be done during the December holidays because the government and the city council inspectors are demanding that all learning institutions should have their licenses ready when schools open on 7th January 2013. This should be done early for learning conveniences next year.

We did not do the pre unit graduation ceremony due to our limited resources. We do not have gowns and many more items that are used for the ceremony. We hope that next year will be able to perform the ceremony so that our kids can be motivated as they get promoted to the primary school classes. We congratulate all our pre-unit class for moving on to class one. We wish you all the best.

The Christmas season is here and we are thinking of holding a Christmas party for the kids, staff and parents at the school. If all goes well we will hold the same on 23rd December 2012 so that they can be able to celebrate Christmas day with their families. All of us are looking forward to that day.

This year we faced many challenges, but we also learnt a lot from them. Three of our kids from the same family went to stay upcountry after they lost their father through a fatal road accident. We at Happy Day wish them all the best in their lives.

We still have some kids who do not have the school uniform and school bags though we are getting some of them from family and friends.

Many parents have not been able to pay the small amount of money that they are asked to because of the high cost of living. However we never sent their kids away and this has helped them a lot because they know that their kids are getting education and some food from the school.

This year we bought books, pencils and sharpeners for the kids. We also got some crayons and water colours from our friends in Norway. Thank you very much because you put a smile on a kid at Happy Day Junior School.

Teacher Faith left in September and went for further studies at the Kenyatta University and in her place we took in teacher Ken. We wish teacher Faith all the best as she pursue her education. Thank you for the good work you did for the children.

We have been attending refresher courses as the Happy Day Junior school staff and this has enabled us to cope with the new school curriculum.

All schools in Kenya have to get new text books due to the changes made in the constitution of Kenya and also due to the new syllabus that has been made by the Kenya Institute of Education. This is a big challenge but we believe that we will jump over this hurdle with your help and our determination.

Happy Day Junior staff members thank all our supporters and sponsors for the salaries that we get every month. Thank you very much for your noble cause. We always look forward to going to school everyday because we have been given the moral by the love extended to us by you. Thank you once again

We closed school for the x-mass holiday on 16th November, 2012 and will be back to school on January 7th 2013. We got some school uniform from my sister, Zubeda, and the kids who got them and their parents were very happy.

We also got 5 bags which will be given to those who don’t have bags in January.

The feeding programme was also a big challenge and we thank each one of you who in one way or other helped with the feeding programme. Thank you very much.

We wish all our partners, staff, children and their families a MERRY X-MASS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR.