By Enock Okong’o
Students have been urged to be good ambassadors and custodians of their schools by picking discipline and hard work as main pillars for success in education.
Nyanza regional Teachers’ Service Commissioner Stephen Ajanga told students to read thoroughly as they chart their way to become leaders.
“If you want to lead you must read, process and retain the knowledge then reproduce to help the community,” he stated.
The director was speaking at Cardinal Otunga Mosocho High School on Friday when he paid them a courtesy call to the institution.
He lauded the school for leading during last year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Examinations (KCSE) from the region attributing it to hard work, devotion and internal unity among teachers and their students.
“I urge you to remain disciplined, hard working and united because a house divided can not stand,” he said.
He told teachers that his office will continue assisting deserving ones to rise in their career growth and asked them to go in for the best personal records of excellence.
Ajanga also reminding teachers that theirs is a noble call, asking them to be models to their learners by abstaining alcoholism and other vices like child defilement that might taint their names.
Quoting a Kiswahili saying ‘chanda chema huvishwa pete’ (a good person is rewarded ), he lauded the School’s Chief Principal, Albert Ombiro and his two deputies, in whose leadership he expressed optimism of sustaining the school on the apex of excellence.
On his part the Chief Principal thanked the school teaching support staff fraternity for their collective responsibility to revive the schools old glory of academic excellence.
He reiterated that academic achievements take time and good strategies help schools meet excellence.
He revealed that his school has a population of 2,500 students with more than 200 candidates that need close supervision.
He disclosed that his teachers were busy putting in place strategies that will help them achieve their mean target in this year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Examinations.
‘We are trying to cover the syllabus by second term to create enough time for revision, expansion of infrastructure for easy accommodation and enough classrooms and positioning teachers at their right place by motivating them,” he said.
Cardinal Otunga Mosocho High School is one of the oldest performing Schools in Nyanza but its academic torch has been wanting for the last one decade but until last year, they leaped into its past glory.
In the 2022 KCSE examination results, all of its 330 candidates passed with direct entry to University as the school topped in the region with a mean score of 10.76 after Nyambaria National School in Nyamira County.
Cardinal Otunga Mosocho High School is a Catholic Sponsored school found in Kitutu Chache South Constituency along the Kisii Kisumu High way.
