Kisii County Director of Education, Philip Chirchir, has told principals, whose schools possess large pieces of land to use them in income generating activities like livestock keeping, fisheries and raising plant seedlings for sell to help in reducing costs incurred in school activities.
The Director who was speaking at Cardinal Otunga Mosocho High School lauded the institution’s Principal, Albert Ombiro, for taking the lead in planting trees on the compound to demonstrate the importance of increasing forest cover in the country as the main tool of fighting climate change. The encouraged other schools to make efforts towards conservation of environment besides getting their staff and students to produce quality grades in final examinations.
“A clean and beautiful environment contributes a lot to the studious minds in our institutions,” he said. Adding; “The president has instructed the country to plant 15 billion trees and this calls for all us to contribute in order to reach the said target.”
He thanked the teachers, parents and students of the school for posting impressive results in the 2022 national examinations and challenged them to remain focused to sustain or get more desirable results in this year’s examinations.
“You have done us proud in this county by putting us on the national map, now it remains for you to seek the power of sustenance,” he said.
Chirchir who was flanked by the Kisii County Quality Assurance and Standards officer Joseph Ochieng, also asked principals to use the available resources in their institutions to spearhead academic success.
Answering requests from the principal on the need to increase the infrastructure to cater for the increasing population in the school because of 100 percent transition from Primary to Secondary School transition, Chirchir asked the principal to make his request known to the ministry.
“We have heard the pleas of the principal about limited classrooms and dormitories here, we promise to give priority to this school when resources will be available,” he said.
Cardinal Otunga Mosocho High School is one of the oldest learning institutions in Kisii County.
In the 2022 KCSE examinations; it presented 330 candidates with 100 per cent transition to University.
The school leapt into its past academic glory by posting a mean score of 10.76 in 2022, up from 7.44 in 2021.
The principal of the school attributed the good performance to hardworking from both students and teachers, fear of God and goodwill from the community.
By Enock Okong’o
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