Amiable Parents /Guardians
We are most grateful to God Almighty for graciously bringing us to the end of this first term successfully in spite of the many challenges that we faced. To him alone be all the glory. Our gratitude also goes to all of you for your prayers, support and love for us in this great Institution. May God Almighty continue to bless you and your entire family immensely. Our school closed on 7th December, 2018 for the Christmas break and we shall resume on the 7th January 2019 for the second term that shall last u to 12th April, 2018.
School Fees
We thank all of you for making efforts to pay your ward’s school fees. Based on recent experiences, management has decided that at least all students must come 75% of school fees paid on day one before admittance. All fees should be paid to the bank please. All bank tellers to be given to our account staff on day one of resumption.
2018 NNPC Quiz
Our school participated in the 2018 NNPC science quiz and our SS3 student Chijioke Mbeabukwa came first in the local Government State and North West region respectively but placed 18th position at the National finals. We thank God for this excellence performance at our first attempt. We pray to do better next year by God’s grace. He was awarded an ipad, a plaque and a scholarship worth #100,000 for each semester of his University education in any country.
2019 SSCE
We have embarked on a very intensive programme to prepare our SS3 students for their forthcoming Jamb/WAEC and NECO exams. There will be intensive lessons/tutoring and testing using WAEC/NECO/JAMB past questions. We thank all parents for their corporation so far.
SS3 Extension
Our SS3 students will be having two weeks extension before Christmas (10th – 21st December, 2018) and three weeks extensions during Easter break (12th – 3rd May, 2019). We shall appreciate your continuous cooperation in order to help us prepare these young ones to come out with good grades in the order to help us prepare these young ones to come out with good grades in these exams once and for all.
Seminars/ workshops
Our management and staff members have continued to attend trainings within and outside the school and Kaduna town in order to improve their capacities and efficiencies. At the beginning of this term, Prof. A.A Nkom and our staff, Mr. Edris Idakwo conducted a three day workshop on effective class teaching, class control and lesson planning. We shall be conducting more in-house trainings for all our staff in the term to come.
Extra-Curricular/Club Activities
There were extracurricular/club activities observed this term. This includes Cultural day to mark our 58th independence Anniversary, science Quiz, debate etc.
2019 Nigerian Spelling Competition
In the 2018 Nigerian spelling competition, three of our junior students qualified to represent our state in the North-West Regional final. The competition took place in our school on 15th November, 2018 with schools from all over the state in attendance. We pray that these students will win at both the National and International levels.
Kennedy Luggard (USA) Youth Exchange Programme (Yes Programme)
The selection test for the exchange programme was conducted in November, 2017 and two of our students, Prosperity Kenneth Obinna and Victor Ogumba scored 96% and 88% respectively topping the whole 19 Northern States and FCT. In the interview, Victor Ogumba scored 272 points to beat the previous record holder of 240 points. They both passed the interview but Victor submitted his international passport late and thus could not make it to the USA in August this year. Prosperity Kenneth Obinna made it to the USA on 16th August 2018, is now living with foster parents and attending Grade 12 at a High School as our Ambassador in California. Reports reaching us that he is doing wonderfully.
In continuation of the programme, the school presented six students and three qualified for the selection interview. We pray these three students will pass the interview and be in the USA for one year (SS2) from September, 2019- July 2020 as our ambassador.
Parent Teachers partnership
We in panaf view parents as an integral part of Education process and value your input and suggestions. As the relationships between the school and home grows, so does students achievements. As partners in progress, we would love you to actively participate in our activities/programmes e.g. Cultural day, Teacher Day, Open Day, Visiting Day, Christmas Carol etc.
Discipline/Character Education
Whether in the hallway, classroom, playground, waiting room, restroom, hostel, dining hall, school bus, etc, each student is aware of the expected behaviour and every staff member enforces these universal behavioural expectations. We are working on a school wide behaviour system that uses re-enforcement to support these expectations. The framework for our behaviour systems are 6 pillars of character. Trustworthiness, Respect, Responsibility, Fairness, care and citizenship. These pillars of character exemplify what we expect from our students as they grow to become adults. We rely on your strong support to ensure all these are upheld as disobedience will not go unpunished.
We hold all our students to a standard. We believe they are all capable of learning at high levels. Our teachers work diligently to plan engaging lessons that are differentiated to meet the needs of all our students. Our mentoring programme has been very effective thus our disciplinary committee has been sleeping most of the past two years. We look forward to working with you in this regard in this upcoming school year.
Holidays Assignments
The holiday assignments have been given to students to keep them busy during the holiday. The aim is to re-enforce what was learnt in school and also evaluate the understanding and assimilation of concepts taught. We encourage all parents to see to it that assignments are done and submitted as at when due. Please note that it is better that the assignment is attempted and problems returned, than having a lesson teacher do the work for the student.
Emerging trees/PANAF ICDL collaboration
International Computer Driving License (ICDL) is a global certification programme in Essential Information Technology skills, especially for current JSS111 students of panaf Secondary school. The course facilities learning beyond formal education, and provides more options for how and what students learn online using multi-media tools. It is made up of Seven Modules, namely: Commuter Essential, Online Essentials, word processing, spreadsheet, database and online collaboration. The cost will be discounted based on the number of enrolment. More elaboration will be done during 2018 Career week.
Appreciation
We most sincerely thank God Almighty for enabling us to cover our syllabi in spite of the one week curfew. The timetable had to be adjusted and also organized extra lessons to enable us cover the syllabus. It was very tasking and stressful but God saw us through safely, peacefully and successfully. We once more thank you for understanding with us. We wish you a happy and prosperous Christmas and New Year celebrations.
Ephraim Kazzah Madugu Mrs. Mary Ekanem
Principal Headmistress.
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