Delta State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education is to partner with corporate bodies and individuals to fully actualise the “Back to School Programme” starting from the new academic session.
The State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Chief Patrick Ukah, announced this in a stakeholders’ meeting and interactive session with Principals, School Heads and Chief Inspectors of Education (CIEs) held at the Federal Government College, Warri.
The Commissioner said part of the strategy put in place by the ministry was to liaise with corporate bodies and individuals to have school compounds cleaned up and fumigated so that before resumption of the new academic session, the school environment would have been made conducive for teaching and learning to commence.
He said it had been discovered that the reason why most students refused to resume on time after holidays was because of the over grown weeds in their school compounds and appealed to corporate bodies and individuals to key into the initiative.
Chief Ukah said the “Back to School Programme” was intended to make academic activities in schools easy for the students and for them not to see it as a burden, stating that motivational speakers would be invited within the first two weeks of resumption to speak to the students in order to boost their morale and encourage them to focus on their studies.
The commissioner said social vices such as cultism, drug abuse, among others, in schools had become a source of concern to government and as a result students would be actively engaged in extra curricular activities through the Boys’ Scout, Boys’ Brigade, Girls’ Guide, Debating Societies, among others, and urged the Principals and School Heads to key in.
He said other measures put in place to stem social vices were the introduction of compulsory inter house sports competitions for all public secondary and primary schools, the Zenith Bank annual Delta Principals Cup, the annual Headmasters Cup and Schools Sports Festivals which he said Principals and School Heads should explore in building up the character of their pupils and students.
Chief Ukah solicited the support of the Principals, School Heads and other stakeholders to enable him to succeed in the onerous task of making the state one of the first three educationally advantaged states in the country.
At the interactive session, Principals and School Heads commended the Commissioner for deeming it fit to meet and interact with them and promised that they would continue to put in their best to ensure that the education sector of the state was taken to the next level.
Principals, Head teachers and Chief Inspectors of Education from Burutu, Ethiope East and West, Okpe, Sapele, Uvwie, Warri North, Warri South and Warri South West Local Government Areas attended the stakeholders meeting.
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