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Mangochi Trip
In Term 1 2019 – 2020 the boarding students had a trip exclusively for them. 49 of them travelled to Mangochi. The drive was a deliberate road network excursion. We went via Balaka – Liwonde on our way to Travellers’ Lodge in Mangochi and our return journey was via Monkey Bay – Salima. On our way to Mangochi we had a brief stopover at Kamuzu Barrage in Liwonde where the students learnt about the history of the construction of the barrage and its economic importance to Malawi as a nation. While in Mangochi, the students had a lot of fun swimming in the lake and playing games both in the lake and on the beach. They also went on a boat ride to Bird Island, a sail that lasted close to 1 hour either way a total of about 2 hours sailing. They sailed round the island viewing the mighty eagles found there. They also had the opportunity to swim in the crystal clean water round the island. They also had a mini tour of Mangochi town especially viewing Bakili Muluzi Bridge which is at the tip of Lake Malawi where the lake begins to pass water into Shire River. They had the opportunity to see entrepreneurial activities taking place within the town of Mangochi and along the lake. All in all, the trip was a great success. It is our hope and plan that in the next academic year, we should go even further than this. We are thinking of visiting places like the Nyika Plateau up north or Likoma Island. Soon, communications will be sent to parents about the next similar trip in Term 1 2020 – 2021.
Below are some of the pictures of this excursion plus other pictures of events that took place during term 1 2019 – 2020.
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SEND – End of 2018/19 academic year
Dear Parents/Guardians
As we come to the close of term 3 which started in April, we would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for the support you rendered to your child and his/her education be it at home or school. It was a wonderful term with lots of experience and efforts and your patience is much appreciated. A lot of activities have been happening this term such as assessments for the right placement of the learners, mental health awareness, shopping day with the learners, etc. We are also delighted to let you know that; most of our learners have shown a very good improvement on both academic and social behaviour. We will still continue to be very vigilant about ensuring that our learners are achieving the best they can.
Our vocational training group has also had a very wonderful term. We have managed to identify some activities for our learners in the areas that they need to specialise on and we will be working on that. Some of the activities that we have concentrated in this academic year are; tailoring, mat making, gardening, kitchen work, mat making, etc. it is in these areas that we have identified the areas of specialisation for our learners. We are continually identifying more activities which we can include in the vocational training and your precious ideas are always welcome.
This term we were also privileged to have worked with three volunteers; we had Shanie from England; Miss Angella from Chancellor College and Miss Doreen from Catholic University. These were a great addition to the team and they helped a lot both with work as well as new ideas on how best to run our department.
School re-opens on Monday 2nd September, 2019. We hope to see you again next academic year, and our calendar for next term will be sent in the first week of opening school. We will also be assessing new learners in the last week of August and we urge you to confirm as soon as possible if your child will be part of us next term so that their place would not be taken.
Please take note of the fees adjustment for next term, the fees will be MK350, 000. The raise has come to this amount because we would like to increase our staff in order to ensure that every child is reached and assisted best, and also purchase more useful resources for learners with special educational needs. We would also want to make adjustments to our environment to be disability friendly.
We here at SEND wish you a nice term break and we are looking forward to seeing you again come September. We hope you will continue assisting your child at home during the holiday.
Thank you very much for your support. Enjoy the holiday
Yours sincerely
Bridget Kaunda
(Head of Department)
Vacancies
Bambino School is providing an employment opportunities to individuals how might be interested in the following positions:
Nursery School
- Supervisor- to manage the Nursery section.
- Assistant Teacher ( Temporary)
High School
- Head Teacher – To manage the High School section
- Teachers
- French and English
- French and Chichewa
- Accounting and Business Studies
- ICT
Boarding Section
- Matron – To manage the girls boarding section
- Matron Assistant
Special Education Need and Disabilities Department
- Assistant Teacher
For more information please click here to view the full details regrading these job opportunities
2019-2020 SCHOOL CALENDAR
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Fees for the 2019/2020 Academic Year
NURSERY
| MWK | |
| Baby Class, Toddler Class and Middle Class | 180,000 |
| Day Care | 70,000 |
| Reception | 200,000 |
PRIMARY
| MWK | |
| Standard 1-4 | 290,000 |
| Standard 5-7 | 330,000 |
SPECIAL NEEDS (SEND)
- MWK 350,000
HIGH SCHOOL
(MANEB)
| MWK | |
| Form 1 and 2 | 350,000 |
| Form 3 | 365,000 |
| Form 4 | 385,000 |
CAMBRIDGE
| MWK | |
| Form 1 and 2 | 380,000 |
| Form 3 | 395,000 |
| Form 4 | 500,000 |
| Form 5 | 500,000 |
| Form 6 | 570,000 |
BOARDING
| MWK | |
| Boarding Fees | 320,000 |
| Medical | 50,000 |
| Registration and Admission Fee | 22,000 |
Fees Payment
At least 50% of the school fees should be paid before the commencement of the term. Any balances are to be settled within the 2 Week grace period.
1st Term – 2nd September 2019
2nd Term – 6th January 2019
3rd Term – 14th April for Checkpoint Students and 21st April for the Rest of the school
All fees are payable to the schools account
| BANK | NATIONAL BANK OF MALAWI |
| BRANCH | CAPITAL CITY |
| ACCOUNT NAME | BAMBINO SCHOOL |
| ACCOUNT NUMBER | 1227599 |
All deposit slips and proof of payments should be sent to the school in person or via email (accounts@bambinoschools.org)
High School – End of Term Newsletter
Dear Parents and Guardians,
We have now come to the end of the 3rd Term, in the 2018/2019 Academic year. We hope that you have had a wonderful as well as productive academic year. This term has seen further developments towards academic excellence and we have rounded-up the current academic year with a lot of activities which among others include: public examinations, international trips, the 2018/2019 School leavers graduation and programs geared towards social and well-being of our students.
First of all, we would like to extend our sincere thanks and appreciation as you have entrusted us with your children/ward for this academic year as well as remitting examination fees, school fees on time and the valuable communication fostered in the various platforms provided and made available.
Term Programs
The 2019 Cambridge Examinations were conducted and concluded on 13th June 2019 and our students were commended for the admirable conduct during this period.
The 2019 MSCE Examinations were also concluded in the month of June, with further commendation for our students who conducted themselves very well.
The 2019 Graduation ceremony was successfully held on 15th June 2019 and was well patronized by parents and guardians though some could not attend due to the distance they had between the city and their location at that time. From the postmortem we conducted, it turned out to be our best event with unqualified success.
The international school trips, i.e. German trip to Ghana; German Student Exchange trip to Germany are currently underway as our student groups have arrived at their destinations and are on course with their schedules. Sadly, we had to cancel the Open trip to Zambia-Zimbabwe-Botswana because of low remittance of funds from parents and we couldn’t facilitate the prior logistics. However, we will have the trip rescheduled for the first term of the next academic year during the mid-term holiday. Please support your child or ward in time so that we can have the trip.
Parents and Teachers Association
We would like to offer our appreciation once again for your unwavering support towards the running of the PTA. As mentioned at the beginning of the term, there is a reliable flow of information through the class “WhatsApp” groups as well as other means as requested by some parents. Let’s continue to support each other through this grouping. We are still updating our system from time to time and would therefore like to request that you forward the latest email address to the class teachers as soon as possible so that we provide you with access to the parents portal in our system where you can access valuable details about your child at the school.
Discipline
As is the case in all schools, discipline at the school is crucial and we have had to expel some students for serious offenses and in line with this, we rolled out a “Code of Conduct” enclosed in the school report packets of Term 2 so that you and your child/ward should have ample time to go through the document and in the end complete the details at the end then return the document to school through the class teachers. If for any reason you have not had the chance to do so, please contact us through your child’s class teacher and request for the copy so that you are well acquainted with it’s contents and append your approval.
We would also like to inform parents to provide your children/wards with the appropriate school uniform, sports kit and ensure that your child/ward is well dressed for school as well as having school standard hair style. Please take advantage of the long break to replenish uniform sets for your child or ward. Our uniform stores is always open during the holidays.
All exercise books are also to be taken care of by covering with a see-through plastic cover with NO scribbling or dirtying so that subject material is easy to follow through and enable easy access to content. Please remind your child or ward that most of the content in the current exercise books will be required in the next academic year as they progress to the next level of their studies.
School Fees
School fees are to be completed on time, i.e. by the end of the 2nd month in a term. As per school policy, after the 20th of a month, fee checking commences. For those who are on the fee payment plan, we urge you to honor our agreement, and most importantly for those who can manage to do so, please pay fees in advance. For those who are yet to complete fees payment due to some unforeseen circumstances, we urge you to do so as soon as possible and if there are any discrepancies or there is a need to reconcile payments, our accounts office is always ready to assist using your remittances and receipts or bank transfer confirmation.
After Management held consultative meetings, it has been resolved that school fees be adjusted upwards with a view to cater for rising inflation as well as incorporating examination fees, spread over a longer period of a child’s progression leading to the Exam year so that we overcome the current burden faced by both parents and the school in collecting school fees and exam fees, as a large chunk. This has already been tried and tested in the MANEB stream and for the past years, it has worked to everyone’s benefit. The fees structure from September 2019 will be as follows:
MANEB CLASSES
| Form 1 and 2 | 350,000 |
| Form 3 | 365,000 |
| Form 4 | 385,000 |
CAMBRIDGE CLASSES
| Form 1 and 2 | 380,000 |
| Form 3 | 395,000 |
| Form 4 | 500,000 |
| Form 5 | 500,000 |
| Form 6 | 570,000 |
Much appreciation goes to the parents/guardians who have since paid fees in advance for 3rd Term.
All fees must be deposited into the school fees account. Below are the details:
| Account Name | Bambino Schools |
| Account Number | 1227599 |
| Bank | National Bank |
| Branch | Capital City |
| Fax | 01761372 |
| admin@bambinoschool.org secondary@bambinoschool.org |
Remember to send the deposit slip, remittance or bank transfer details to our Accounts Office in person, through fax or email.
Be reminded that the ‘fee payment plan’ is an official scheme for which you have to apply in person and upon approval, you would be taken through completing the documentation and we will thus honor our agreement as per ‘fee payment plan’. Deciding to defer payment unilaterally does not qualify being on a ‘fee payment plan’ neither does sending word of mouth nor a note to the school through a student.
2019 IGCSE/A LEVEL October/November Examinations
The window for remitting examination fees opened on 15th May 2019 and will close on 10th August 2019. If you have a student scheduled or wishing to sit for examinations during this session, please request a letter giving a quote of the exam fees and payment details from the Head-teacher’s office as soon as possible. After the closing date, late entry fees apply on top of each subject fee.
All students who are sitting for a selected number of subjects during the 2019 May/June session are expected back in class as we open the next term on 2nd September 2019. Please be reminded that this is a requirement for internal candidates sitting for exams at Cambridge Centres and if your child or ward does not turn up, we will make that student an external candidate.
Communication
All communication should be made through our normal and official channels, official phone number; office bearer’s personal phone number; class “WhatsApp” groups; class teacher’s personal phone number; email: secondary@bambinoschools.org; verbally and in writing. Let us inform one another of absences and let us timely communicate alterations to normal schedules so that we lessen disruption to school related activities. We thank all parents who continually use the official channels to communicate with the school and the curtesy you have afforded us in doing so.
We look forward to serving you in the next academic year of 2010/2020. Please remember that our offices remain open during the holidays and we are available to attend to queries and facilitations.
| R. THOM | D. PHIRI |
| DEPUTY HEADTEACHER ADMINISTRATION | DEPUTY HEADTEACHER ACADEMICS |