Kising'a Secondary School

Kising'a now has it's own Secondary school which started with students in Form I in 2006. The new school is run by Village Schools and accepts all new primary school graduates. Having a school right in Kising'a means that students can live at home with their families. Kising'a Secondary is adding a grade level each year and now has Forms I - III. Secondary students can graduate after form IV with a type O diploma or continue to Form VI for a type A diploma. Part of our mission on this trip is to bring materials for conducting Physics and Chemistry experiments. Teachers from two other VSI schools will be coming to Kising'a with us and we will hold a 1 day workshop with them and the Kising'a students where we will demonstrate many of the experiments with the teachers. Science is a difficult subject to teach and make interesting in Tanzania because of the lack of resources and cursory textbooks. This is a self perpetuating problem because few students specialize in science and often science will be taught by non majors. We hope to learn with this experiment of experiments how this can be improved and expand to other VST and Diocese schools. You can see what we are bringing and the Tanzania ciriculum topics at our web page.

Sponsored students with Pastor Wihale at Kising'a Secondary School