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Our 2025 ‘Poet of the Year’
Over the past month, we’ve held our second annual poetry competition jointly with King Edwards School, Birmingham, UK. This year, the theme was ‘dreams’.
Once again, we judged the King Edwards’ st…
Community Reading
It was Grade 9’s turn this half-term to visit one of our local compounds where the community live in houses they have made from mud – to read to the children and adults who live there.
Our learner…
New year, new chairs
Some generous gifts at Christmas meant we were able to commission a local carpenter to make 35 new chairs for our Early Years unit.
He used local hard wood – and here are three to see.
Gif…
Wonderful examination results – again
We were thrilled by our learners’ results in the 2024 national examinations.
87% of our Grade 7s passed and proceeded to secondary education – compared to an average of only 69% across all other s…
Finally, after four years of polite & patient persistence…
It’s our ‘between-term’ break this month, and we’re having a blitz on important maintenance work. We’re busy replacing all the old louvre windows in the Upper Secondary block, Science Lab & Staff…
Welcome to Mukwashi
After a long recruitment process, Mr Enock Mulando has joined us this month as an additional Horticultural Officer. We hope he will have a long and satisfying career working alongside our teaching s…
Special Friday
We had two very different special guests at our May ‘Special Friday’.
Inspector Moshtini Machungwa from the Westwood division police force came to talk about assault, defilement and vandalism. Ou…
World Poetry Day
In preparation for World Poetry Day, we organised a Poetry competition as a joint project with King Edward’s School, Birmingham, UK.
We invited learners to write a poem for World Poetry Day, and…
Our Valentine
On 14th February, our Grades 6 & 7 learners visited one of our local ‘compounds’ to read traditional African Stories to the people who live there.
During the cholera-extended end-of-year break…
Spectacular achievement
Tamika Simpamba, in Grade 11 this year, has been selected to play for the Zambian U17 women’s football team. It is a spectacular achievement.
Two years ago, Tamika had never left our local compoun…
Wonderful exam results
We were thrilled by our learners’ results in the 2023 national examinations.
95% of our Grade 7s passed and proceeded to secondary education – compared to an average of only 69% across all other s…
Poem Wins International Prize
We’re thrilled to announce that, this past term, a poem written by a small group of our Upper Secondary learners was selected to be performed at the opening ceremony of an international conference in…
Some more ‘tools’ for Mukwashi
In the past few weeks, we’ve been able to use the generous gifts we’ve received to purchase some more of the resources and equipment we need.
We’ve now bought all the equipment we need for our liv…
Examination month
November is non-stop national exams.
Our forty Grade 7s were the first to be tested, and this year their exams were even more important. The government has recently decreed that only those who…
Some ‘Tools for Mukwashi’
The school has started using the funds it’s received to buy the ‘tools’ it needs. We began by investing in professional garden tools for our staff and learners to use in their Agricultural Science le…
Design & Sew
We try to provide our learners with a balanced curriculum which builds good character and stretches them academically, but which also equips them with some deeply practical skills which are relevant…
A safer crossing
The school is next to the busy Mumbwa Road, the main road to the west. It’s one of Zambia’s handful of tarmac roads, so drivers enjoy racing along as fast as they can.
Most of our learners have t…
More desks!
We’ve grown in numbers so much this term we needed to buy more desks.
We order our desks from the Lusaka Central Prison to support our local economy and to build friendship and understanding with…
The first fruits
Back in January 2022, our current Grade 12s planted these banana plants as the first stage in the establishment of our school’s fruit orchard and banana plantation.
Eighteen months later, they ar…
Open for business
Our new ‘experimental business laboratory’ opened for business at the start of Term Two – to great excitement.
Second-hand shipping containers offer both security and durability, but they are like…
Athletics results
At the end of last term, just before Easter, the first ‘inter-school’ athletics tournament took place since 2019. Our team of athletes travelled by school bus and then camped for three days to take p…
A solar powered office – at last
Thanks to the generosity of overseas friends, we’ve finally been able to buy and install the four solar panels, inverter and battery we’ve needed to provide the school office with power.
This is…
Welcome to Mukwashi
The new school year is now underway, and two new members of staff have joined us.
Mr Innocent Phiri is our second transport & maintenance officer, and Ms Sikazinga Maluma is our new teacher of…
We’re rather pleased with our Grade 7, 9 & 12 exam results
We’re proud of our 34 learners who sat the national Grade 7 examinations in November.
Their results were far better than at other schools around Zambia. 85% of our learners achieved one of the to…
Dazzling doormats
37 of our 41 Grade 6 learners have just completed the first of their three ‘school-based assessment’ projects for their Expressive Arts G7 national examination next year.
Our new Expressive Arts…
Our first ‘new-to-us’ bus
Thanks to the generosity of local parents & overseas friends, we are now using the first bus reconditioned for us by the staff of Tradesgates Motors (a local community garage).
We’ve finally…
Congratulations
Last Friday, we held a graduation celebration for our Grade 12 learners and their parents as they reached the end of the time at Mukwashi Trust School.
Many of them have been learning at Mukwashi…
A special talent
We are very proud of Tamika Simpamba in Grade 9.
At the end of last term, she was selected to play for the Lusaka province under 17s ladies’ football team in the national championships.
Tamika…
A new term begins
The final term of this year is now underway – with its focus on the national exams.
During the holiday, we said some sad ‘good-byes’ to three teachers. Ms Angela Nkonge, Ms Monica Mbosha & Mr…
Our new toilets are open!
After over a year’s hard work, our amazing new toilets & showers are finally open.
Our learners are now using twenty new toilets, four long urinals, four long sinks, four drinking founta…
Special Avocados
Last Saturday, our Agriculture teacher, Mr Sichinga, took all our Grade 8 learners on a special study trip to Mr Special Lungu’s famous avocado farm.
We’ve just bought twenty young avocado trees f…
Special Friday
Once a month on a Friday, there’s a special activity for the whole school.
We often invite guests to come and tell everyone about their work and career – so all our learners know the possibilities…
We’re going bananas!
This term, in their Agricultural Science lessons, our Grade 12s have been learning about growing bananas.
They’ve just planted 100 banana suckers in our garden, and will nurture them right through…
Congratulations…
to Warren Hambache – the first learner to have started in the Mukwashi Early Years’ class, and then to have progressed through Reception, then right through our twelve Primary and Secondary…
Reading to the community
Each term. a different group of our learners visit the local community to read with the children who are unable to attend school.
This term, it was the turn of our Grade 8 girls to go with Ms Sika…
Starting back at school
The 2022 school year will start on Monday 24th January. We look forward to welcoming all our learners back to their new classes on that Monday with all their fees for the whole term!
Please r…
Excellent exam results – yet again
Congratulations to last year’s Grade 7 & 9 learners (and their teachers), who achieved an excellent set of results in the 2021 national examinations.
Nationally, across every go…
Judah Sikamikami scholarships
Following their excellent performance in the Grade 7 & 9 examinations, six learners have been awarded the 2022 Judah Sikamikami scholarships.
Scholarships for G8 & G9
Harrison Miller&nb…
New Kitchen
Thanks to the generosity of some overseas friends, local builders erected a new school kitchen during the closure. We’ll use this to provide every pupil with a free daily hot meal.
Our natio…
Busy in closure
The staff all worked throughout the Covid 19 closure period. We seized the opportunity to spend 4 hours a day studying an on-line teacher development course run by the UK Open University. Its ‘Teache…
Reading to the community
Every term, all the pupils in Grades 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 & 11 spend one whole day taking books into the local community, and reading stories to the children whose parents can’t afford to send them to…