D.E.B Kailutha Primary school is a public mixed day school located in Meru County, Kenya.
We teach learners aged 4 to 16 years old. We have already started teaching core competences in our curriculum, including collaboration, communication and creativity in listening, speaking and problem solving. Students are showing these skills in their day to day lives.
There has been positive improvement in performance from the students in their skills, which has in turn boosted their other learning areas - giving learners wide scope of their abilities. Learners were engaged through the programme by teachers and other school stakeholders by explaining to them what was required for them to attain the different essential skills from Skills Builder. Learners were motivated to use the skills learnt where teachers and pupils councils came up with specific days for Speaking in English,debates at class levels and later Houses levels as school culture. The programme lets us support learners to engage with real-life challenges, including class elections and campaigning. Learners were encouraged to choose their leaders - where they were also given time to do actual campaigns and later secret ballot vote casting. During these exercises among others teachers would be keen monitoring how learners applied and developed their Listening, Speaking, Problem Solving, Creativity, Teamwork, and Leadership.
As a school we believe in learning to learn or unlearn. We are confident enough as staff as we seek to instill these skills in our learners. We want to produce an all round citizen who can add a positive input globally. Moving forward, we want to focus on incorporating the skills to be part and parcel of the wider school community, not only limited to learners and teachers but also to our community. We look forward to the Skills Builder Global Accelerator+.