Kennedy Secondary School, just outside Entebbe, is a beneficiary of the Ngamba Island outreach programme. Silver, head of education at Ngamba, used to teach at Kennedy and he came back today to show some of the children a documentary provided by the Great Ape Film Initiative and talk to them about conservation. Some of the students had previously been to Ngamba Island itself as part of the programme.
The school has 1,026 students, most of them boarders. It is a sprawling campus. The pathways between the buildings are paved with sandy coloured stones, the drains running alongside them giving the impression of an ancient city. There is a miscellany of different buildings – whitewashed concrete, plaster with spidery tea-stain cracks and bare red brick with wooden beams and corrugated roofs. The windows have no glass, instead there are elegant iron or woodwork lattices creating an unexpected sense of faded grandeur. Dotted around the campus are large piles of brick dust, masonry and the odd chicken.
Academics
The school has a broad curriculum containing Arts. Science, Vocational and Business Subjects at both ‘O’ and ‘A’ levels.
‘O’ level curriculum: Subjects offered include: English Language, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Agriculture, Geography, History, Commerce, Political Education, Accounts, C.R.E, Entrepreneurship, Fine Art, and now Computer.
‘A’ level curriculum: Subjects offered include: G.P, History,Geography, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Literature, C.R.E, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Agriculture, Fine Art, and now Computer.
[related_posts]Main games and sports at the college are athletics, football, volley ball, basket ball, rugby and assorted indoor games.
Games like karate, gambling, etc are forbidden.
Main clubs and societies are YSC, Scripture Union, Debate, Drama, Press, Peace, Wild life, Young Farmers, Brass Band, Red Cross, Scouts, Youth Alive, etc.
Every student is expected to enroll and participate actively in at least two of the official co-curricular activities above.