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Summary 2001 Dear friends, We would like to convey our greetings across you all from German Church School Community. Here we are blessed with another year and the opportunity to give you just a brief overview of the activities of the different units of German Church School during the academic year 2001/2002 ( 1994.E.C). The Regular program: This program is run in two shifts morning and afternoon. The first /morning/shift is for students in grade 3,4,6,7 & 8 where as the second shift is for grades 1,2 & 5. Currently we have a total of 606 children in the regular program, i.e. 336 girls and 270 boys. This shows that the female students account for 55% of the total student population which was done with the view of giving the girls students a better chance for education here in GCS. This is shown more clearly in the following table.
Table 1 Distribution of students in the regular program by grade level and sex. The teaching learning activity is run by all teachers in the school and we have been making every possible effort to improve the quality of education in the school, by conducting workshops, training programs and through the provision of more teaching aids ect... One clear and outstanding indicator of further improvement in the quality of education in the quality of education in the school is the excellent national exam results that is obtained by our students. For instance, of the 48 students that took the grade 8 national exam all scored results 82.5% and above. Moreover 71% of them have grades between 90% and 100% which puts our school in the list of best schools in zone 4 schools office in national exam results. Out of the 48 four are students in our integrated education for the blind. Integrated education: - We have 33 visually impaired students in this program at present. 3 of our students that completed their secondary education are in the first year in Addis Ababa University and one is expected to graduate this year from Kotebe College of Teachers Education. Besides the routine activities of the unit - We have produced books and cassettes on certain subjects on books which were revised based on the new policy. - Training of one teacher to replace the one that left the school. - Homes of resource students were visited. - Work shop was organized for resource teachers focusing on how to help the low vision children by two German experts that were sponsored by CBM. By way of this, eight students were in ALERT eye hospital for eye examination. - Organized a preparatory room to store the equipments and to ease production of teaching aids that supplement to the teaching learning activities of the unit. Fostership: - Currently, we have over 730 children in the different fostership programs we have of which 279 are with KNH, 270 GCF 225- with Interpedia and 45 others in project fostership apart from this the non-fostered students get their 2nd part of the support at the end of this month. On top of this all students in the regular program of the students in the regular program of the school are getting bread and fruits on every school day and milk once in a week. The distribution of shoes and uniform clothes have also been effected as usual during the first part of the school year. Extended fostership: - This support is intended for students that complete their secondary education and continue in higher institutions and training programs. We altogether have 57 students in different Universities and Colleges as well as Vocational Training Programs of these 23 are females. The four students that graduated, i.e. two from Addis Ababa Commercial college and Jimma University and Kotebe college of Teachers Education have secured job and become self-supportive. The Saturday Program: - This is a tutorial program for our students in grades 7-12. It is also meant to maintain the contact we have with the students when they finish their studies in GCS and join other government schools. The program is run in two shifts on Saturdays on top of that we give computer classes to students in grade 8 and grade 12 on other week days. During their academic year we have on the whole 264 students in this unit.
Out of the 40 students in grade 11 that took the first national examination for grade 10 last academic year 16 are in the preparatory which the remaining 24 are included in the vocational stream. Inputs/changes: - Our prime commitment during the year has been to create a better and conducive situation for the teaching learning activity of GCS. To this end:
We can dare say we have through this unit catered better to the problems and quests our girl students used to have. We have also been able to address more to the very personal problems of the boys with the appointment of the male social worker. Things yet to be done, · We will be celebrating the school's 30th anniversary celebration from May 31 - June 3, 2002.· In conjunction with the celebration, the school will coordinate the grade 6 question and answer contest which is conducted annally between special schools. This program is organized by ENAB (The Ethiopian National Association for the Blind).Thanks: - We on behalf of the children in GCS are indebted and so much grateful to you all individuals and organizations like KNH, Interpedia, CBM and all others that have been supporting the activities in the school with the view of alleviating most of the problems these chideren from very destitue families would have other wise faced. God Bless you all
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