Primary Seven Teachers : Minutes of Meeting with Director : 4th July 2025

 PRIMARY SEVEN TEACHERS MEETING WITH DIRECTOR

Date:  4th  July 2025

Streaming :

·       Director noted streaming has not happened despite two weeks.

·       He also noted that the grouping of children has been done away with .

·       He advised them to implement it at the earliest without further excuses.

Practices Papers :

·       Teachers agreed that KEB papers were of standard.

·       None of the teachers had suggested any practice papers until the meeting

·       Suggestion of Masaka papers were made by Mr. Hussain during review.

·       The director advised them to connect with fellow teachers get soft copies at token appreciation

·       He assured us of getting the papers printed as soon as soft copies are made available.

Heavy use of technology

·       Teachers had not been using technology despite suggestions.

·       Teachers of Science and SST used some tech but not in orderly fashion .

·       Math and English – is still not thinking of the same

·       Director called Mr. TREVOR  and asked him to assign a working Desk with internet and ability to project things permanently in P7 CLASS . He also advised them to warn the children not to play around with the set up.

·       He also assured them that if they need any help in regards to this they are free to walk in in any office but good to pass via DOS / HM / Mr. innocent

Prep timing

·       Prem time table has not been implemented fully

·       Prep progamme of work was not looked at seriously .

·       There was no tracking by teachers or DOS /HM on the work covered in prep schedule.

·       Director gave them a print out of the prep workplan and advised them to track the works delivered.

Box Files

·       Box files were not reviewed though the director looked at them himself and found 14 children with no box files. He had also shared his observations on box files that had gone through – this was shared with HM

·       All box files should have p7 sets, independent worksheets, and neatly organized

·       It was agreed that all p7 children will be billed for SETS/ BOX FILES/ BOOKS – of they don’t have, and parents will be informed. Bursar will maintain the list and issued with signatures to enable proper billing and accountability.

Reflections

·       Teachers have not sat together to work on reflection mechanism.

·       They have not understood how reflection must be enabled.

·       Peer-to-peer grouping is the first step to enable reflections on previous paper.

·       The teachers should do prep work on preparing the tree map on guided reflection as soon as they get the papers from their experience,

·       Director gave examples on guided reflections

·       He hoped that teachers would pick a leaf and work on the same.

Counselling

·       Some counselling was done – though not specific to P7

·       One of the teachers also raised disturbance to teaching and learning due to some school programmes.

·       Director advised that P7 be not disturbed especially when lessons are ongoing as per timetable

·       He advised that class be divided into groups of 21 and each subject teacher begiven responsibility of these 21 learners each (group)

·       The P7 counselling was done over the weekend in these mentor 4 groups. However, mentor teachers were advised to brainstorm, on the shared agenda for counselling.

 

The meeting ended with hope and prayer that discussion would find execution and progress in the next review meeting.

The director assured the team of taking charge increase he continues noticing no movement.  Review meeting can be called any time.

 

Thanks .

Minutes of Meeting with Director

18th June 2025

1-     Consider Streaming  (for Mbalwa)= The class is  big , we need to have two streams.  35+50 is ideal. Best 35 followed by next 50.

2-     Practice Papers =  We have administered 5 ( +1 currently) of papers. 9 more set shall be provided , if any particular sets are required , suggestions be made.

3-     Heavy use of technology = is a must for accelerated learning – all teachers must engage in the same.

4-     Prep timing = This has to be streamline – A time table and work plan for entire remaining weeks is a must – and diligently followed.

5-     BOX Files = each student must have a box file with all previous sets in their for enabling them reflect and revise.

6-     Reflection on Performance = It is important the corrections of papers done is taken seriously. All students must be involved and they must be able to identify where they went wrong and how they can improve. Peer- to -Peer approach will be helpful

7-     Counselling – it is important we treat P7 as adults and counseling is organized for them , they need to be held accountable and be remined of their responsibility.