About St Bakhita Kiburia Girls High
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St Bakhita Kiburia
St Bakhita Kiburia Girl’s secondary school was started in 1967 by the Catholic Church under the Catholic Diocese of Nyeri then. The school was established as a Mission school to offer hope to girls who would otherwise have been denied an opportunity to continue with their education and fulfill their aspirations for a productive and better life. At the time, these were mainly the girls who were sponsored by the church since their parents could not afford to pay school fees in government schools. The second group was of girls who did not qualify for admission in to the few government schools but were able enough to benefit from secondary education. The first head teacher was Sr Alfonsa and since then the school has had a total of ten head teachers.
Like all mission schools in Kenya Kiburia went through change of status from Mission, to Harambee, to Government Aided District School, to a Provincial Public Girls Boarding School, County Girls Secondary School and is currently an extra county girl’s school.
INFRASTRUCTURE
Our School infrastructure is ideal for quality learning.
LAND AND BUILDINGS
The school stands on a 23 acre piece of land divided in to three blocks
The school offers an excellent/conducive learning environment boosted by a whopping 23 acre of land. The land offers the students access to ample learning space for both indoors and outdoors activities.
School management plays a crucial role towards the achievement of academic excellent. To make this a reality the school administrators have excellent working areas which support the work done by the Administration.
The administration block has following offices Principal, Deputy Principal 1 Deputy Principal 2 and others, Accounts, Enquiries, Staffroom, Heads of departments and Typing pool.
Technical Workshops
The girls are prepared and well grounded in technical projects
The other crucial facilities necessary for the proper functioning of academic giants and available at St Bhakita kiburira include 3 science laboratories while 2 more laboratories are almost complete.
St Bhakita Kiburia supports technical subjects and we have a music room for the musically inclined students who aspire to pursue music at higher levels of education. The hospitality industry is lucrative so we have also set up a complete Home science lab complete with all the tools necessary for the 21 first century food industry experts.
Information Technology HUB and Library
Information technology been an enabler in many areas of operations has not been left behind and the school has invested heavily by setting up a state of the art computer facility.
The school has 19 classes with a student capacity of 60 students and a well stocked library with the latest edition in all the major subjects offered at the school.
Meetings in the school are taken care of with a conference room which supports 1500 people within any time with clear sound management system.
Agriculture is a key pillar in many countries. The school has ensured that the students get access to unlimited agricultural exposure while the school also secures agricultural products from the school agricultural unit at subsided prices. This is made possible by the presence of 2 dairy Units 4 piggery and 1 rabbit hutch and 2 sheep pens. The school also secured a carpentry unit necessary for any repair work which the school may wish to undertake.
St Bhakita is a leader in matters Agriculture with a well managed coffee farm with more than 2000 stems of coffee, 4 acres under maize production and 2 acres devoted to horticulture production and another 2 acre under banana cultivations.
To ensure the students get hands on and ready agricultural advice and excel in their agricultural studies, the farm has halve an acre devoted for school learning program.
The old sage adage says that, learn and no play makes Mary a dull girl is never ignored at St. Bhakita with 4 Acres of the school land being used for games.
The current population at the school is as follows; the student enrollment for the year 2023 stands at 1009 while Teachers service commission has awarded the school 36 teachers. The Board of Management has increased the number of teachers to 41 by securing the services of 5 more teachers.
These teachers are self driven and willing to assist the students.
The non-teaching staff consists of 18 permanent staff and 6 staff on casuals who are all hardworking and self-driven.
The school has embraced green energy leading to the installation of modern energy saving burners in the school kitchen which goes a long way in matters cost saving and health living for the students, staff and our visitors at St Bhakita Kiburia.
The girls are safe and can sleep well courtesy of the schools well secured and managed dormitories with CCTV managed setup to avoid and reduce any incidences in the school.
We have taken food security seriously and have ensured that the school 2 stores are permanent and always secured from ant form of harm which could render the food unsafe for human consumption. Human health is boosted in the school with the school having a total of 93 functional toilets and 59 bathrooms which are kept clean at all times and an additional 11 toilets for staff.
Access to quality revision and remedial work which is necessary for form 3 and 4 is made possible due to the fact that the school agreed to build decent and comfortable houses for the teacher.
Health and sanitation is of great importance and is well taken care of in the school through the supply of water from Kamweti river.The school is linked to the main power grid from Kenya Power and Lighting company but a standby generator is always ready.
- The school is under the Catholic Diocese of Muranga.
- The school participates fully in all the activities of the Diocese.
- The school has been competing fairly well with other sponsored schools in the Diocese.
- Catechism is ongoing and in the last many years the school has presented students for baptism, first communion and confirmation. There are peer catechists who work with the parish priests to achieve this. The seminars organized by the Diocesan Education office have been very helpful.
- Catholic traditions are upheld in the school. Presence of crucifixes, portraits, Catholic prayers, observing seasons of the church e.g. the way of the cross on every Friday during lent, giving dorms the names of saints, celebrating our saint day etc.
- CA is strong and CU is also active. These two co-exist well. Their patrons are committed to the faith and to their work.
- The school bears a patron saints name (St. Bakhita) since 2014.
| DEVELOPMENT 2016-2023 |
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⮚ Two story dormitory construction ⮚ Purchase of public address system 2015 ⮚ Burglar proofing- one room D/H 2015 ⮚ Change of name from Kiburia girls to St Bakhita Kiburia Girls Secondary School in 2014 ⮚ Launched a five years strategic plan in May 2013 - 2017 ⮚ 2 Class-rooms, painting of roofs computer lab-CDF ⮚ Storied dormitory- parents ⮚ Playing-field establishment ⮚ Fencing of maize farm ⮚ Farm rehabilitation |
| DEVELOPMENT 2016-2023 |
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Recarpeting of classes and pavements ⮚ Installation of new windows in two dormitory blocks ⮚ Improving and beautification of the compound ⮚ Improving the waiting bay ⮚ Construction exhaustible of latrines ⮚ Upgrading the electric power supply to three phase within the school ⮚ Upgrading the computer lab to meet the standards of CFSK ⮚ Generator installed ⮚ New computer lab with 25 computers, a projector & heavy duty printer ⮚ Major Renovation of 6 dorms block ⮚ Biology Lab furnished ⮚ Improvement of main road ⮚ Painting the roofs ⮚ Improving of furniture: ⮚ Dining hall-tables & benches ⮚ Leveling of foot ball pit ⮚ Additional furniture ⮚ Additional toilets ⮚ Completion of storey Dorm. |
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - CENTER
- Internally appointed HOD ICT
- ICT integration in curriculum delivery
- Purchase of two projectors
- installation of two Fans
- Government sponsored free internet.
- Purchase of 10 computers 2016
- Purchase of extra 6 computers 2015
- Introduction of computer classes for all form ones and two
- Established CCTV 36 cameras
- computerizing bursars’ office, Internet and connectivity -5 offices and staffroom
- Introduction of the new Accounts System SAMIS
- Additional computer room
- Additional computers
- Projector installation
- Internet installation
- Biometric system for both the students and staff