By Godfrey Muhumuza
The Hoima City Education officer (CEO) Johnson Kusiima Baingana has challenged secondary school students to continuously practice and implement the hands-on skills they have received during classroom and field visits in order to gain expertise in future prospects.
Baingana says knowledge that is not practiced decays, adding that students need to keep revising the different projects which they are learning and getting empowered with, in their respective schools.
In 2020, government rolled out the new lower secondary education curriculum, with the aim of meeting learners’ needs, especially in regards to skills training and enhancement, where a student is required to complete two projects per term.
This hands-on learning according to Baingana, requires students to remain proactive, regarding the knowledge they have acquired through seeing and doing it back at their homes.
The city education officer tasks parents to support their children in the upcoming December holidays, by providing them with resources to enable them practice the knowledge and skills they have acquired at school and gain full understanding of the projects.
Baingana was over the weekend speaking to over 200 students from several schools in the city, who had turned up for a mushroom festival at ECO AGRIC Uganda in Kasingo cell, Hoima City where they acquired more skills in the project.
Audio Clip: Baingana on students……………rr
Meanwhile, Josephine Nakakande and Robert Muwawu, the Mushroom experts at ECO AGRIC Uganda noted, through the locally available materials and use of a small piece of land, city dwellers can be ably succeed in a mushroom project.
