Our Ideal School 1

Wards, pupils spend most of the time within a school environment which greatly influence their attitudes, thoughts, beliefs towards later life and moulds them for the future consciously and subconsciously.

A School is a place where we achieve knowledge about the whole world. Not only that, we also learn how to socialize with all sorts of people, know how to speak for ones right, distinguish about manners and learn to be the part of a certain group.


In identifying a good school, your lists should look at;

UNIFORM:
An appropriate school uniform colour should appeal to a child's  age group, texture should be skin-friendly, styles should be simply  and creative.

It must not be biased to any religion, culture. It should encourage unity at every possible way.

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE:
Any Organization what so ever needs to know how authority and responsibility flows.

This is a chart this shows the School head , how information flows from him to every one in the school both the teaching and non-teaching staff as well as the pupils.

RELATIONSHIPS:
There should be a cordial relationship between the school and the community close to it, the school activities must be relevant to its immediate environment.

Also good relationship should be between teachers and teachersteachers and parents, school and parents through diverse innovative forums, like Parents Teachers Association (PTA), Parents forums, Open days,other creative programmes

FACILITIES:
A good, spacious field, playground that suit the learning age of the learners

Toys, artistic tools, equipments, laboratories with relevant tools, etc relevant to the child's learning age.

Library, Toy corner, Sick bay, First aid box, Running water, etc

PHYSICAL STRUCTURE:
Classroom blocks, staff rooms shouldn't be far apart, keep the wards close and the more the impact.

Well ventilated environment.

The site for an ideal school must be close to nature. It should be delimited by trees, have a big garden and a field where the students can play.

It should have lockers so that students don’t have to carry their heavy school
bags.

It should have different rooms for different kinds of extra curriculums.

Beside nature the students should also be introduced with science and new technology.

Each class should contain small number of students dependent on the age of the learners, so that the teachers can give more attention to each student.

22nd of September or 13th of October ?

I must commend that since the advent of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) came into Nigeria, its impact on our everyday life, all sectors of work cannot be overemphasized, even the Education System has been seriously affected as the Federal Government extended the expected school resumption date of 15th of September 2014, to 13th October 2014. Few days ago, after serious frequent meetings and sittings between the Federal Ministry of Education, Federal Ministry of Health, Association of Proprietors and School owners, amongst others the Government has agreed for schools to resume on Monday 22nd of September,2014.

Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau said: Al primary and secondary schools, both public and private should be provided with a minimum of 2 Blood Pressure measuring equipments by the state Ministry of Education.

Regular washing of hands is part of the preventive measures and there must be steady supply of water in the school. In compliance to this the State Ministry of Education instructs Lagos state Government to direct the Lagos State Water Corporation to supply pipeline water readily to no fewer than 600 public schools before the September 22 resumption.

Every State Ministry of Education is expected to have trained at least 2 officials from every school on how to handle any suspected case of Ebola and also on immediate sensitization of all teaching and non-teaching staff on preventive measures.

Mixed feelings increased amongst teachers, parents, and the general public as the earlier extension of the resumption date has its benefits : Uniform Resumption date for all school all over the Federation. It is a proactive protection of our children against Ebola disease Adequate time is available to santize the School environment To train the school staff on the preventive measures against Ebola Virus To properly provide the necessary preventive tools to the school environment. Nevertheless, its negative effects is that: The 2014/2015 academic calendar will be disorganized Adverse effect on Students preparing for external examinations like WAEC, NECO,GCSE, etc.

As Schools will resume on 22nd September 2014, schools should ensure regular sanitization of the school facilities and environment, more diagnostic centers should be set up, acquire more infrared thermometers to check every child, staff, parents that are coming into the school. Parents are now thinking: Is this really the right thing to do by saying we can now resume on Monday 22nd of September, 2014. We pray that non our kids will be victims of Ebola as they resume back to school, though we are tried of them disturbing us all day! (Smiles) Photos/ sources: www.wash-hands.com www.cdc.gov www.wikihow.com www.usaid.com