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 li…
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…
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 i…
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 …
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 …
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 Ar…
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 finall…
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 Mukwash…
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.
Tami…
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 & …
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 foun…
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…
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 possibiliti…
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 throu…
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 Seconda…
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 Si…
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…
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 …
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&…
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 nat…
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 ‘Teac…
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 t…