Endana Secondary School Profile Info

ENDANA SECONDARY SCHOOL

Principal: Mr. Sanjurah Leparkery
PA-MOJA Contact: School Principal
Postal Address: P.O.BOX 3106
NANYUKI-10400
KENYA.

MOTTO: Success is your effort.

VISION: To be the preferred model educational institution offering secondary education curriculum.

MISSION: To provide quality education to the youths so as to produce creative, progressive, resourceful and God fearing graduates who can positively contribute to the social, cultural and economic development of their respective communities and country in general

MANDATE: To offer secondary education curriculum

CORE VALUES:
The school core values reflect its desired culture. Total adherence to these values enables the school to realize its mission and hence vision. These core values are:
a) Patriotism: To instinct a sense of belonging and pride in self, society and country.
b) Integrity: To inculcate a sense of integrity in students, teaching and non-teaching staff.
c) Excellence: To meet and exceed through continuous quality assurance and standards measures, the
highest standards of academic excellence.
d) Professionalism: To create a climate that encourages learner’s development in ethical
behavior, creativeness, dependability, commitment and social responsibility.
e) Collaboration: To work with other educational institutions, stakeholders and other corporate bodies.
f) Teamwork: To foster a strong sense of togetherness among students and staff.
g) Lifelong learning To provide meaningful and innovative experiences and encourages further learn in.
h) Self drive: To instill a strong sense of self drive.

The school was started in 2005 and is currently composed of four classes with a student’s population of 146 students (112 boys and 34 girls).

Teachers

Government employees     6

NGO employees                       4

Total                                            10

Non Teaching staff          10

School enrollment

Boys             140

Girls               42

Infrastructure

The school has four classrooms which are used for learning and are well equipped with desks. The school has one permanent dormitory for boys and a semi-permanent dormitory for girls. There is also a semi-permanent school kitchen where food is cooked and served to students. Since the school is within a semi arid zone marked by water scarcity, the school has 10 water tanks with a total capacity of 82,500 litres.

Recent Achievements

1. The school has installed electricity at the mid of this year
2. The school participated in ball games in the District level and took position 3
3. Project Kenya sister school collaborated with Ol Pejeta conservancy and bought 2 dairy cow for the school and a biogas-gas project is to follow soon
4. PA-MOJA in collaboration with Ol Pejeta and another UK based partner constructed and equipped a Science laboratory

School Projects

Biogas / cows – two dairy cows AND 31 cubic meters biogas project bought by PA-MOJA – on going

Green house and school garden – where school grows vegetables to supply school kitchen – on going

School laboratory and its equipment – completed

Installation of water tanks – completed 2011

School Clubs

1. International relations – for cultural exchange with Burnaby South Secondary school in Canada
2. Wildlife club – focus on the importance of wildlife in our country
3. Young farmers – Students learning agricultural practices in school
4. Scouts
5. Science congress – A group of students working on Science experiments and innovation

The school is an important center to this community because:

1. Only school in the area that provides secondary education
2. Promote girl child education among pastoralist communities.
3. Empowerment to the community through talents building
4. Discourages Retrogressive practices i.e. early marriages, forced marriages

Challenges that the school faces:

1. Lack of teachers’ houses
2. Lack of permanent girl’s dormitory
3. Inadequate of teaching materials