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Our Primary school is founded on the acknowledgment of these values:

The freedom of the person

The first and main good is the very person of the child. However small, he is already a man and  must be welcomed, esteemed and guided so that his potentialities may grow, his reason may develop and his freedom be fulfilled.

The educational primacy of the family

In our school we recognize the family as the original and primary place of the experience of the child, because in the family the child existentially encounters the criterion with which he has to judge what he sees and then in  the primary school he begins to make a first verification of the starting hypotheses he got from the family. The family uses the school as a qualified tool to bring about and accomplish the educative formation of the children.  

Reality is positive

The vision of reality the school proposes is born of the Christian experience which is at the origin of its foundation and of its activities. From this ensures a criterion of viewing reality in a positive way and of value to the person, in everything that exists and happens both in the personal life and in life of the school? This awareness is in the conscience of the adults and it is offered to the children in the daily proposal of school, through the specific forms, contents and methods chosen.

Christmas and end of year feast.

The school organizes and invites the parents for this occasion. The children/pupils prepare songs and dances, and poems which they have learnt, Merry Christmas, eat and drink together. 

 

Parents meeting with class teachers

what is essential to human is not visible to the human eye

The school has an open day every Thursday afternoon where the parents may meet personally the class teacher and discuss the performance and any other aspect related to the child. 

  Class assemblies

This is a general meeting of parents of a class with the class teachers of every class. During the assembly the teacher explains the class academic standard, the difficulty he/ she encounters and involves the parents for a collaborative remedy. Parents too are encouraged to ask any questions of interest related to the academic work and other queries  related to the child

Pupils enrolment

This provides an occasion for the parents to meet with the head teacher. The children are interviewed admission done and opening dates confirmed.

Meeting with experts

The school occasionally invites specialists in different fields who help the pupils in different problems or questions they may have in regards to health, affection and sexuality that do emerge from the social context which the children come from. This is done with an intention of helping the pupils confront them.

The school- family relationship

The school recognizes the family as the original primary place the experience of the child. This relationship between the school and the child’s/ pupils family is evident in the following moments

End of year feast

The school organists a feast at the end of each year and when necessary invites the parents to celebrate and close the academic year together. This occasion is prepared by the pupils in each class in collaboration with their class teacher.

Drama

Annually in the occasion Christmas, the school prepares songs, dances and plays so as to bring awareness in the child about the important liturgical moments. The same activities are also prepared and performed for any other important and memorable occasion linked to the school. This is an occasion for the child to express himself/ herself. These activities involve all the classes and not a particular group.

Co-curricular activities

These are significant cultural activities which make clear that which the school

Offers and are common to the different subjects.

 

Trips/ outings

Trips and outings are organized for each class once a term. Places visited include historical sites e.g. museum, geographical sites, e.g. the mountains, the parks social and civil sites. (Airport and encounter with AMREF doctors. The choice of place of visit in not arbitrary it is determined strictly by the content being covered by teachers in class. Since any trip or outing should help the child deepen what he is already in class. The teacher thus becomes key in planning these visits.

THE ACTIVIES

ART, music and theatre.  Why we undertake the activities?

We acknowledge that to educate the sensibility of the child in the primary

School is something always in function for all other subjects’ i.e it helps in comprehension of other subjects. This is because sensibility is the way through which the child begins to know and understand. For the child, the sensible and perceptible takes priority in the sense that it is prior the concept formation thus becoming the condition to pass from the concrete to the abstract Thus the Education of the sensible and the perceptible provokes the foretaste of the reality as the child develops in his character and the personality which makes it possible to learn and to discover his/ her potentiality.

 

Teachers

 

All the teachers are trained from the government or private recognized P1 teachers colleges. They all adhere the strictly to Teachers Service Commission code of regulations.

They also keep to quality and standard as recommended by the Ministry of Education. The school tries as much as possible to approximate the Government salary scale and consequently spends a lot of money every budgetary year. 

Feeding program.

This is the second most important service the school offers to the pupils after education. This is because given the economic hardships in the slum; many cannot afford to have the recommended three meals of the day. As such the school offers porridge at 1.00 o’clock and lunch of every school day .This takes a lager percent of the school budget annually.

School fees

The school does not charge school fees since the majority cannot afford. The school management thus shoulders a great responsibility to solicit funds in order to run the institution.. It has established cordial links with well wishers locally and abroad. There are sponsors who dedicate to support some components of the school budget like the stationery, payment of teachers salaries or the school canteen. Since the needs are numerous the school budget always has a deficit to cover

Nursery section

The pre school section began in 2007. It includes the baby class, the nursery and the pre unit classes. The pre school unit classes were made of iron sheets until 2009 when a permanent block was constructed and inaugurated in March 2010.

Beneficiaries of the School

The key beneficiaries of the school are the orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) from kibera. 96% of the school population come from the kibera slum. The children who join the school are proposed by priests, pastors, catholic congregation (e.g. the sisters of charity) who are in the contact with the poorest  among the poor in the slums

Background Information

PROFILE SUMMARY

Name   :  Little Prince Nursery and Primary School

Started: 2000

Location: Langata division – next to makina market off Karanja road (kibera)

No. of pupils:

                           Primary section:   254

               Nursery section:     51

                Total:                    305

Status of school: Community School- registered by the government as private

school in 2010.

Catchments area: Kibera slum

Beneficiaries:  1^st  Category : Orphans, semi orphans and vulnerable (OVC) of Kibera

                        2^nd  Category:   Fee payers – Parents who pay school fees by themselves- – also known as self sponsored ( they form 5% of the school population)

Teachers: All trained from Government Colleges .Qualified with P1 Certificates.

Problematic Budget Components: 

Ø      The school canteen(the feeding program )

Ø      The teacher’s salary

Ø      The didactic materials 

Curriculum: 8-4-4.

 History of the school

The school began in 2000 initially as a remedial centre. The centre began with seven children and one teacher, and they were hosted in two classes in a school run by catholic brothers of St Charles Lwanga in Gatwekera . The one room remedial class grew into a full class of 25 children by the end of 2000.Towards the end of year a catholic NGO (International Service Volunteers association ) which works in kibera  decided to support the beginning of a complete formal school .The first 25 children formed the first class after which the school developed gradually. There was no school fees charged since the NGO provided the education freely and whatever the parents contributed was just symbolic.

As the school grew there was need for more space to allow future development. Since the school had been operating within another school. the NGO thus searched for another land around the slum . In 2004 it purchased a land where it is currently situated and with the help of well wishers the school was constructed by February 2005.

In March 2005 the school was completed and was  ready for use. It  was officially inaugurated on May 23^rd 2005. By then minister for education Prof George Saitoti, the school has eight classes, kitchen , dinning hall ,a theater, and administrative  offices