KASESE HUMANIST PRIMARY SCHOOL

Kasese District has been hardly hit by a series of floods by major rivers radiating from the top of Mount Rwenzori and they have caused a lot of destruction of life, property, crops and closure of Kilembe Mines Hospital.

You can read an update about the Kilembe floods on the Godless Poutine blog whose link is as below:

http://www.mysecretatheistblog.com/2013/05/serious-flooding-in-kilembe-uganda.html

A new fundraiser aiming at raising funds to wire and connect the KHPS Property to the national power grid is on.

The Godless Poutine is again leading a fundraiser in conjunction with Atheist alliance International, a long time partner of Kasese Humanist Primary School.

More information at the links below:

http://www.mysecretatheistblog.com/2013/03/humanist-primary-school-new-building.html

Fundraiser link:

http://www.causes.com/actions/1742486-help-electrify-the-new-kasese-humanist-primary-school-in-uganda

Thank you very much for supporting Kasese Humanist Primary School.

With science,we can progress

SPECIAL NOTICE:

This fundraiser became a success and wiring works on the KHPS Property is already complete while the poles and connection exercise is under way .

By: Bwambale Robert

The KHPS poultry project is going on very well. The eggs are flowing in gradually with atleast 10 eggs per day and we have so far harvested 5 crates. A full crate holds up to 30 eggs.

We have started the execise of giving out the eggs to the KHPS children and since the total number of eggs coming out is inadequate the criteria we use to distribute the eggs to the children per class and the exercise will be rotating.

The chickens some time back were all vaccinated against New castle virus, a deadily disease that affects most the poultry industry. I was advised to do this by the chicken feed and poultry supplier in our area.

As with the local breed chicken, they are also doing fine and we have resorted to having them feed on free range during day time while at night time they are fed indoors.

Videos showing the egg distribution exercise are available on the KUHASCHOOL PROJECT YOUTUBE Account at http://www.youtube.com/user/Kuhaschoolproject

On another note i am informing the friends and well wishers of Kasese Humanist Primary School that the school has of recent identified and purchased land that will be a permanent home for KHPS and a fundraising drive is going on where we welcome donations to aid us finalise payment of this land.

Kasese Humanist Primary School has secured land measuring 9 acres in Kasese Municipality to serve as a permanent home for the school. 

This land is situated in Scheme Ward, Nyamwamba Division after the Nyamwamba Bridge along Kasese - Fort Portal road. Land mark features near this procured land is the Kasese Airfield, Nyamwamba river which the site borders in the west and the Highway in the north.

The land was purchased from a famous former town clerk of Kasese Town Mr. Cosmas Byaruhanga at the tune of 35 Million Uganda shillings and the transactions were executed under a reknowned Lawyer conducting business under the names of Sibendire Tayebwa & Company Advocates and Mr.Bwambale Robert Musubaho on behalf of Kasese Humanist Primary School who paid cash 17 Million shillings as first pay leaving a balance of 18 Million.

Kasese Humanist Primary School currently is renting building properties of the defunct Uganda Railways Corporation at a fee which the school management considers to be very high neccesitating a need for the school to have its own home.  The new property is located approximately 3 KM from the current school site and there are many benefits at the new site like easy availability of sand, rocks, water and easy working soils where the school can put a series of projects like the ongoing poultry project, piggery, fruit growing, Class room blocks, staff quarters,play grounds, computer laboratory , spacious library and so on.

On the Land purchasing agreement, Kasese Humanist Primary School upon request by the seller want to get his balance of 18 Million shillings in a period of 2 months and deadline is on 28th March 2013.

Owing to the urgency of funds to complete the debt. The School Director, Bwambale Robert is going to work closely with a selected number of international friends and organizations to ensure we launch a fundraising campaign to raise the 18 Million Shillings (Approximately 7000 US$)

A photo slide of the procured site location can be viewed at the link below:

http://www.kizoa.com/slideshow/d3979490k5538029o1/site-photo-1

All friends and wellwishers of the school are encouraged to support KHPS in this cause such that the school attains total control of the property as this will strengthen its stability and service delivery in our efforts to offering a balanced secular education to Ugandan children.

You can view the Property Sale Agreement on the documents page on this website 

http://kasesehumanistschool.webs.com/apps/documents/

Kasese Humanist Primary School early this year established the Primary Seven (P.7) and the school had a total number of 21 students who sat for Primary Leaving Examinations last year in november which is a nationwide exam prepared by Uganda National Examinations Board.

The results were released recently by UNEB to the Uganda Ministry of Education & Sports and the school had all its students eligible to join secondary schools.

The school emerged with 2 first grades, 16 second grades and 3 third grades. The best student got 9 Aggregates.

Full list of PLE Results for Kasese Humanist Primary School 2012 Candidates

Download the form on this website via the link below:

http://kasesehumanistschool.webs.com/apps/documents/

Kasese Humanist Primary School will today 30th November 2012 break off for a 2 months holiday and Normal schooling again shall resume on 4th February 2013.

All individual child sponsors are informed that results of the children they sponsor at KHPS will be emailed to them after issuing them out to the parents and guardians. Many thanks to all those who have supported our school project.

Yours in free thought,

Bwambale Robert

School Project Director

Kasese Humanist Primary School on Sunday 25th.November 2012 held a colorful event which was a FAIR WELL PARTY held at the school campus in one of the halls. The Guest of Honour was Mr Turuganya who is currently the Municipal Education Officer,Kasese Municipality.

Other invited guests in attendance at the event were the delegates from Kasese United Humanist Association, The Khps School Management Committee, Khps PTA representative, The entire School Staff plus the candidates 2012. The function involved short speeches, eats and Dancing.

The function ran from 10.00 AM to 7:00 PM Below is a pictorial of the event.

With science, we can progress.

More news in pictures about this function can be viewed on the Kasese United Humanist Association official blog. The link to this is as below:

http://kaseseunitedhumanistassociation.blogspot.com/2012/11/khps-candidates-fair-well-party-2012-in.html

Kasese Humanist Primary School now has a 3000 Liter Plastic water tank that has been installed at the school premises.The tank has been fixed at a strategic location next to the western wing at the school campus where the tank will harvest rain water and this will save the school to cut down on its expenditure on water bills.

The funds that made this possible is a portion removed from the recently donated funds from Foundation Beyond Belief to Kasese Humanist Primary School. The exercise involved purchasing of sand, cement, rocks and a mason was hired to do the work of constructing the foundation slab for the water tank. Metallic gutters were also made to fix on the roof ends to collect rain water to the water tank. On the plastic tank, a tap was fixed to control water flow from the tank. An extra washer tap was fixed at the bottom end of the tank to aid in cleaning the water tank and relieve it of impurities.

More on this, The school Director will soon embark procuring library furniture and bookshelves to shelter the books that were recently donated to KUHA Library which is located at KHPS Site. Funds to facilitate this is still from the FBB Donation.

On behalf of Kasese Humanist Primary School , i thank Foundation Beyond Belief for supporting our school project. The harvested rain water will help the school with ready water and will act as a substitute to the water tap. The water will be used for cooking, bathing, washing clothes and cleaning the toilets.

With Science, we can progress

Below are photos of the recently installed Rain water harvesting tank

Water Tank installation photos

ABOVE: The Cyclical ring being filled with gravel to offer firm support of the water tank

ABOVE:  Water tank fixed on the concerete slab

ABOVE: Part of the gutters to direct rain water to the tank

ABOVE: The water tank showing the Tap and the extra Washer Outlet. All this work was done by professional mason and plumber

A BIG THANK YOU TO FOUNDATION BEYOND BELIEF USA FOR MAKING THIS HAPPEN.

Students of Primary 4,5 and 6 at Kasese Humanist Primary School today had a field study tour of Kasese meteorological station and Kasese Airfield. These two establishments are housed on one property of the airfield which is government facility run by the Civil Aviation Authority.

The children visted the weather station and  were moved around by a Station Technician who showed to the children all the Weather equipments and gadgets at this weather station and among the items seen were a rain guage, wind vane, anenometer, sunshine gadget,THERMOMETER,  HYGROMETER, WEATHER BALLOON, Weather ballon, COMPASS to mention but afew.

The children asked alot of questions and it was a fantastic study tour. The children were also briefed about Aeroplanes, helicopters and jets, to some were they first time to see or touch physically an aircraft.

Kasese Humanist school encourages its children to critically think, explore new horizons and ask questions to increase on their intellectual capability.

Attached are photos shot in the course of the tour.

                                                   Khps children listens carefully to the Technician

Khps Teachers together with the children pose for a photograph at Kasese Airfield

Khps children listens to what the Metereological Station technician lectures about weather instruments

                                         KHPS students at Kasese Airfield

Kasese Humanist Primary School has acquired 5 sets computers which have been added on the other three computers we initially had at the school. In addition to this the school has acquired a computer Scanner and a Data Projector and funds making all these happen was a generous donation to the school from Swinburne University of Technology based in Australia plus 2 Friends of the School by the names Bill and James also based in Australia.

The Projector will be used at the school as a learning aid to cast videos and presentations on the screen wall. It will also help Kasese United Humanist Association in organizing events like workshops, debates and also generating an extra income for the school.

The Kasese Humanist Primary School is working jointly with Swinburne University Faculty of Media designs in a project termed as Curly Questions Project which entirely aims at engaging the children at KHPS to ask any science question and receives answers from Swinburne University students.

Swinburne University aims at uplifting the computer infrastructure at the school and has provided funds that assisted in the renovation process of the computer laboratory,equipping of ventillation items,computers, scanner, printers and a projector.

On another note, one of the lecturers who is coordinating with me in this project owns a business firm called Online Galleries are also going to donate to the school project with Cameras, Computer accessories , Educational Dvds plus some funds.

On behalf of the school, i thank the management of Swinburne University of Technology and Online Galleries for their support and remain fully committed to ensure the donated items and funds will put into good use in our efforts to ensure we expose our students to modern technologies in the field of learning.

I thank James Marshall for all his efforts in mediating onbehalf of Swinburne University and remain looking forward for a long lasting partnership.

Below are some of the photographs showing the purchased computers, a Scanner and a School Projector.

                                Children at Kasese Humanist Primary School in the Computer room

Photo above showing the Projector that was purchased by the School Director from the Swinburne Funds

Inner look of the Computer room, Looking on in the picture is the School Director who is closely monitoring and managing the KHPS /  Swinburne partnership on the Ugandan side.

Above photograph shows the Scanner to be used by the school for all its document scanning needs 

In the photo above is a  display of the procured computers courtesy of Swinburne University of Technology.

Computer literacy is very necessary in exposing people to know more about different areas, computers eases work, improves mental capabilities, connects people,keeps vital information, can be used for entertainment, educational and promotion of research.

Kasese Humanist Primary School is proud to associate itself with Swinburne University of Technology and Online Gallaries Australia.

With Science,we can progress

Written by:

Bwambale Robert,  (School Project Director)

Kasese Humanist Primary School