JEMOVO SECONDARY SCHOOL
P.O. BOX 83 – 50313
KIRITU – MARAGOLI
STRATEGIC PLAN 2012-2017
FOREWORD
Strategic planning is imperative for any institution in formulating and realizing meaningful and attainable goals, plans, projects and programmes. This strategic plan has been prepared with the aim of guiding Jemovo Secondary school to identify, tap and put the available financial and human resources into specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely use. It clearly looks at the existing gaps and how to refill them according to priority and availability of resources. Apart from capturing the current position of the school, this strategic plan envisage the picture of how the school will look like in the next five years, in line with our country’s’ Vision 2030. I therefore encourage all the stakeholders and people/organization of good will to give their best in making this blueprint realizable.
I am very grateful to the panel that researched, organized, developed and produced this strategic plan. This is a product of their commitment and shrewdness.
THANK YOU
LUVAGA AGGREY LIFULU
THE PRINCIPAL
JEMOVO SECONDARY SCHOOL
Acknowledgement
The Principal, JEMOVO SECONDARY SCHOOL, on behalf of the school BOG/PTA would like to thank the following eminent people who developed this strategic plan.
MR. MUDAGALE FREDRICK - DEPUTY PRINCIPAL CHAIRMAN
MR. KIPKEMBOI FELIX - DIRECTOR OF STUDIES SECRETARY
MR. CHAMWADA HUDSON - PTA CHAIRMAN MEMBER
THE ENTIRE TEACHING STAFF OF JEMOVO SECONDARY SCHOOL AND SUBORDINATE STAFF.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This strategic plan outlines the objectives, activities in line with the formulated objectives, the expected outcomes, indicators of achievement and who will ensure that the objectives mentioned are achieved.
The plan focuses on a five year period from where we are to our destination in systematic manner. In the plan we are going to outline a brief history of the school, the school motto, vision, statement, objectives and the core valued of the school. We shall also give a detailed analysis of SWOT and PESTLE stakeholder analysis will be discussed; a profile of departments and staff shall be given. The plan shall give five strategic goals, strategic objectives and expected outputs. We shall also provide a financial sustainability plan, monitoring and evaluation and a summary of the whole plan.
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INSTITUTIONS PARTICULARS
Name of the school – Jemovo Secondary School
Address - P.O. BOX 83 – 50313, KIRITU – MARAGOLI
TEL: - 0722433947
Website -
Zone - Sabatia North
Division - Sabatia
District - Sabatia
County - Vihiga
Type of school - Public Mixed Day Sec
Registration certificate no. - GP/A/2539/2003
Approved pupil Enrolment - Double stream forms
- I – IV @ 45 per class
- To a maximum of 360
Date of Registration - 2003
TSC CODE - 3049
KNEC CODE - 38622106
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION CODE – P051098571N
Sponsor - PAG CHURCH
Management - BOG
SCHOOL UNIFORM - NAVY BLUE TROUSER AND WHITE SHIRT BOYS
- NAVY BLUE SKIRTS AND WHITE BLOUSE GIRLS
- NAVY BLUE SWEATER
1.1 LOCATION OF THE SCHOOL SIZE/TITLE DEED AND SITE PLAN
The school is located in Sabatia Division, Sabatia District, Vihiga County. From Chavakali –Kaimosi road, one branches off at Mudete tea factory and heads towards Kiritu Market. At Kiritu Market, branch off onto a marum road towards Hamisi District headquarters (Hamisi town). The school is about three kilometers along the marum road. The school is cited on 2.5 acres of land with no title deed at the moment, although plans are underway to acquire it.
1.2 SCHOOL’S VISION, MISSION AND MOTTO
The following are the guiding statements:-
Motto: ELIMU NI NURU
Vision: We are committed to achieving academic excellence, talent development and moral uprightness
Mission: To equip the learners with knowledge and skills for self development in life through hard work, sacrifice and faith in God
1.3 CORE VALUES
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1. Uphold excellence
2. Integrity
3. Teamwork
4. Mutual respect
5. Responsibility
6. Justice and fairness
7. Handwork
8. Humility and gracefulness
9. Patriotism and loyalty
10. Gender equity
11. Innovative and creativeness
12. Obedience
1.4 SCHOOL SERVICE CHARTER
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OUR CORE FUNCTIONS
1. To implement the National Secondary School Curriculum through teaching and learning
2. To evaluate curriculum implementation outcomes at well-defined time intervals
3. To provide Guidance and counseling service to all students
4. To support all students to discover and nurture their talents through co-curricular activities
5. To guide students towards upright moral and spiritual behavior
OUR COMMITMENT STATEMENT
1. Professionally manage the teaching and learning functions
2. Objectively evaluate curriculum using valid and reliable tools
3. Always endeavor to provide guidance and counseling services that meet student’s felt needs
4. Remain impartial in our responses to student’s behavior management
5. Assist all students discover and nurture their talents
6. Support all students to grow spiritually and model acceptable moral behavior
OUR PRINCIPAL OF SERVICE DELIVERY
Our educational service delivery practices are premised on the following maxims:-
1. Customer centeredness
2. Excellence as the only acceptable benchmark to ensure our standards of service delivery
3. Use of all-inclusive approach that does not foster elements of exclusion whatsoever
4. Sustained efforts to remove all roadblocks to effective service delivery practices and outcomes
5. Accountability and dependability in all our service delivery practices and outcomes.
THE RIGHTS OF OUR CUSTOMERS
In the course of receiving education services from Jemovo Secondary School, the following are your rights:-
a. Students
1. It is your right to be taught and be evaluated in all subjects
2. You have a right to access and use the learning materials and facilities provided b the school
3. It is your right to voluntarily seek Guidance and Counseling services from teacher counselors
4. You have a right to engage in all school programmes that will assist you discover and nurture your talents
5. It is your right to learn and live in an orderly and safe school environment
6. You have a right to worship and engage in spiritual programmes but as stipulated in the Education Act and as per the schools’ laid down procedures, schedules and time intervals.
b. Parents/Bona-fide Guardians
1. As a bona fide parent/guardian, it is your right to seek information related to your daughters’/sons’ academic and educational progression
2. You have a right to visit your daughter/son but only on visiting days
3. You have a right to express dissatisfaction and seek redress using the school’s officially laid down channels and protocol if and when you feel that the educational services provided are not competitive enough
4. You have a right to access relevant information regarding the management and utilizations of the school’s resources, but only using the school’s laid down channels and procedures.
c. Alumnae Students
I n your capacity as a former student, the school grants you regulated visiting rights; on condition of your purpose, good intentions and willingness to observe agreeable social behavioral expectations; a respectable and acceptable dress code and other formalities as may be stipulate from time to time.
d. Key stakeholders, the Employer and its Agents, Suppliers and other relevant Bodies
1. You reserve the right to demand accountability for high quality service delivery practices and outcomes from all staff members in the school with regard to the educational services provided therein
2. You have a right to express dissatisfaction if and when the educational services we provide do not match stipulated statutory requirements
3. You have a right to access all record and official documents in the school related to the purpose of your visit
4. As a supplier, you have a right to fairness in the Tendering Process and prompt payment as per the terms stipulated and agreed upon in the Purchase Order.
e. Donors, sponsors, volunteers and Educational Partners
1. You have a right to extend support in cash, kind or otherwise to the school if it is within the activities of your mandate and not tied to terms and conditions that go against our core functions and educational philosophy
2. If and when the support you give is acceptable to us, you have a right to access all records related to the same.
THE OBLIGATIONS OF OUR CUSTOMERS
To make it possible for staff members of Jemovo Secondary school to provide you with quality educational and other services, the following are your obligations:
a. You are required to:-
Always observe the school daily routine, rules, regulations, policies, time schedules and procedures:
Attend all classes consistently and promptly;
Effectively complete all academic and non-academic tasks assigned to you and within the stipulated time frames;
Attend all curriculum evaluation programmes and complete all tasks assigned:
Refrain from all forms of negative and inappropriate behavior;
Desist from engaging in any form of academic indiscipline;
Refrain from engaging in any form of behavior that denotes academic disorientation;
Actively participate in the school’s scheduled co-curricular activities;
Refrain from littering the school compound and vandalizing property therein;
Distance yourself from all forms of spiritual excesses:
At all times, observe the school’s dress code, personal grooming policies, acceptable social etiquette and morally upright behavior;
Perceive the Guidance and Counseling services offered by the school positively and use them every time you experience difficulties and challenges in your academic, social and spiritual life;
Act as a good educational ambassador of the school every time you are out of its precincts.
b. Parents/bona fide Guardians
You are required to:
1. Promptly meet all your financial obligations to the school
2. Remain a reliable educational partner and ambassador of the school
3. Respect the school’s access zones and desist from trespassing
4. Use cordial language when dealing with teachers and other staff members, observe social decorum, acceptable dress code and mannerisms
5. Consistently and promptly to all attend in person all educational functions and programmes that require your presence
6. Respond promptly to all forms of official communication from the school.
c. Suppliers
You are required to:
Always supply goods in good condition and services as specified and agreed;
d. Donors, Sponsors, Volunteers and Educational Partners
You are required to:
Ensure that you provide clear, viable and agreeable guidelines for the usage and appropriation of any form of financial, material or voluntary support you extend to the school;
Ensure that you use only acceptable and transparent channels to extend any form of support to the school;
HANDLING CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS
In the event that you find our service delivery practices and outcomes on relevant matters below standard and expectations, you have a right to complain and seek recovery but only using the school’s officially laid down policies, procedures, channels and protocol.
INTRODUCTION: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
JEMOVO SECONDARY SCHOOL
It was realized in the early 1970’s that PAG church had lagged behind other denominations in promoting secondary education region. The East Africa Yearly Meeting of Friends had made a big step in this field and this posed a challenge to PAG.
The PAG church therefore started the following schools in the region; Nyang’ori, followed by Goibei, Tigoi and Givogi in the now Hamisi District. In the now Vihiga District, Madira Girls High School was established. The now Sabatia District did not have any PAG sponsored school. This realization made the local leaders think about taking some initiatives.
In 1976, two schools were indentified in the larger North Maragoli, now Sabatia District. The schools were Jemovo and Bukhulunya Secondary schools were to be started in these areas. A delegation composed of the late Andrew Musagala, the late Jonathan Mukangula and Mr. Kirk Kamisi headed to Nyang’ori PAG Mission Headquarters to see the sponsor with the view of starting Jemovo PAG Secondary School. They were happily received by the late Reverend Shem Irangi and the late Mark Kidula who gave them green light to start a school at Jemovo.
In 1977, four classrooms were quickly put up with the support of the community. This activity was supported and co-ordinated by the committee of Jemovo Primary school under the chairmanship of the late Zablon Ganira with the support of the local administration under the assistant chief Mechack Changilwa.
The school started officially in 1977 with thirty five students under Mr. Samson Ayuya, who was the Head teacher of Jemovo Primary School. He was assisted by two teachers, Mr. Andrew Ketsengwa, who taught English, Kiswahili, History and Geography, and Ms Beatrice Lukalaga who taught Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.
With the assistance of Jemovo Primary School committee chairmanship, Mr. Andrew Musagala was identified to oversee the management of the Secondary school. He served the school from 1978 up to 1982 when he stepped down. At this time, the enrolment had gone down due to stiff competition from the already established schools with better facilities and stiff competition from the already established schools included Kigama, Busali, Gahumbwa, Munzatsi and Vokoli of the thirty five students who were the pioneers when the school started, only a handful managed to complete from two in 1978 when they sat for KJSE (Kenya Junior Secondary Examinations).This KJSE were to go on until 1984.
A delegation of elders from the community and the sponsors led by Mr. Mark Kidula approached Mr. Bowers Avukusi to take up the position left by Mr. Musagala who had stepped down. Mr. Avukusi agreed and started reorganizing the school. Under his stewardship, the first Board of Governors was constituted; secondly, he pushed the school from doing KJSE to KCE. Thirdly, he used his influence at the PDE’s office to bring teachers to the school. He also contacted the late Honourable Moses Mudavadi and later Honourable Musalia Mudavadi who presided over two Harambees respectively. This helped put up a classroom, and the first science laboratory, the dining hall and the administration block. Gratitude also goes to Mr. Gerishom Maniagi for donating a lot of timber to the school.
Mr. Avukusi served as chairman of the Board of governors until 1994 when he paved way to Mr. Azirikam Mudika Lubia.
During Mr. Lubia’s tenure, the school continued to made great strides in development. In his capacity as the Chairman of BOG, Mr. Lubia organized for a Major fundraising where Honourable William Ruto was the guest of honour, assisted by Honourable Musalia Mudavadi and Mr. Senda wa Kwayera. A total of Kenya shillings one million (kshs.1, 000,000) was raised.