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Momodou
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 Posted - 21 Jul 2007 : 20:11:14
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NYAKOI BUNDUNG NURSERY SCHOOL HOLDS OPEN AND CERTRIFICATE AWARD CEREMONY FOR 2007 BATCH
By Joseph Sirjo Sonko
Nyakoi Nursery School, yesterday 14th of June 2007, held their Open and Award giving ceremony at its school ground in Bundung. Speaking before a multitude of people, the head Mistress, Mrs. Aunty Amie Sillah, underscored the importance of education and the role parents can play to help their children to higher heights. She said looking at the performance of each of the nursery pupils, there is no doubt they have made up their minds to be good ambassadors in society. She said every child did extremely well but that you can see those that are being helped at home by parents who came out even more outstanding than those neglected. She urged parents to also provide support for their children noting that not only during school days should they be given tutoring but on every step of the way. Children, she said, need all we got to make them what they aspire to be in future.
Nyakoi she said started in 1987 with an input of seventeen children out of whom she said ten were boys and seven were girls. Most of these children today are in big institutions working very hard as Doctors, Nurses, Engineers, and Teachers, and some are in universities. “It delights me all the more when I travel and bump into someone who will exclaim I was a student of Nyakoi.” These people are now big men and women doing extremely well. So what all these young ones also want from us is our support in every way. “She commended the parents for coming out in their large numbers to witness their children’s performance. She appealed to parents, to also support the school and do everything in their power to be paying their children’s school fees on time. She lamented the delay in paying school fees which places obstacles that are often not easy for the school to overcome.
The deputy Head Teacher, Mr. Abdou Jobe, said, “we not only teach the children Mathematics, Science, Arts, Social Studies, and English etc. but also moral and ethical behaviors as well.” He said Nyakoi has done everything it could for these young ones now it is left to their parents. He especially appealed to the parents of the two hundred and eighty seven students graduating to help their children in their new field of endeavour.
Some of the parents who spoke on the occasion expressed delight in what they saw. Noting that if children at such tender age can express themselves using the English language with such ease and without mistakes and knowing so much about the world as well as topics on science and its relation to the human body and health, then what are they waiting for in heeding the head Mistress’s called for action. All those parents who spoke did express hope that the efforts will one day yield fruit that will see the building of a Nyakoi Primary School.
The children who came out in different batches were presented with different questions on different topics which they answered to the delight and astonishment of every one in the crowd. The ceremony was graced by both parents and teachers taking photos of each other and the singing and playing of cultural instruments by the nursery children. There was great attendance from both parents and people from different neighborhoods around Bundung.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No.84/2007, 20-22 July, 2007
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