Appreciation

We want to thank God Almighty for his generous mercies and grace over the students, parents and all college staff members. Sincere thanks to all our new and returning parents for believing in us; we equally thank you for your continuous support, prayers, understanding and encouragement. We made it to the mid-term because you and God stood by us. We are sincerely grateful and appreciate you all.

ACADEMICS AND CURRICULUM

READING PROGRAMME

In a bid to strengthen our academic standard and inbide in our students the culture of reading; the school re-introduce the early morning reading from 6:20am-7:20am to our SS 3 and JSS 3 students. The objective behind this is  to prepare our students for the forth coming WAEC/NECO examination which is just 22 weeks from today.

The school encouraged students reading habit this term by re-introducing the Thursday morning DANBO reads and the 2:45 -3:15pm sustained silent reading. A reading time table was given to all students to serve as a reading guide. Parents should insist that students follow this reading time table during the break.

We have not only reviewed our curriculum but have merged our curriculum (made up of both Cambridge/Ontario curriculum) with that of the newly released curriculum by the Federal Government.

To strengthen English language and Mathematics in the school, the school re-introduce the “Easy Maths and English Language” classes every Monday from 4:30-6:00pm for every one our diagnostic test conducted at the beginning of the term deems fit to attend. The lesson is free.

MONDAY NIGHT EXAMS:-

The school administers examination in English language and Mathematics every Monday night from 8:00-9:30pm for our boarding students. This gesture is meant to strengthen and boost writing skills and logical thinking in our children. The examination have proved to be very successful.

HALF TERM RESULT

Students have been given their half term report sheet. Please request that you get the result issued after the closure of the open day.

HOLIDAY ASSIGNMENTS:

All staff members were directed to give holiday assignments to students; parents should please ensure that their wards keep themselves busy by doing all the assignments themselves. Some students were given projects to work on ; we would be grateful if they do them. If not they may loose some reasonable score.

EXTERNAL EXAMINATION

CHECK POINT:

The college gave a pre-check point examination to all students of which some selected few who passed the prestigious check point exams organized byCambridgeUniversityinLondonwere selected to write the full examination coming up in May.

Letters have been given to the concerned students as lessons preparing students for this examination will start in November.

CAMBRIDGE O’ LEVELS REGISTRATION

Parents are advised to take advantage of this opportunity to register their wards in SS3 for the Cambridge O’Levels examination that is on-going. See the school principal for more details.

JAMB-UTME.

The JAMB-UTME forms will be on sale before December, 2011. The school is encouraging SS 3 parents to  register their wards. The school will be registering all SS3 students thus money to be paid by parents will include extra lesson/coaching fees, administrative fees and registration fees.

A letter will be issued to all SS3 students to their parents as soon as we get notification of the registration. It is also important to inform our esteemed parents that despite the great failure in the exams last year; 90.3% of our students that we registered for the examination scored above 200 marks. We also took responsibility of taking them to their examination venues.

As part of preparing students for this exam, JAMB syllabus were given to our SS3 students and an orientation too.

SAT/TOEFL EXAMS:

SAT means Scholastic Aptitude Test. It’s an International examination organized for students who would love to school abroad and also desire to get scholarship. In time past, most of our students have been getting scholarship even last year, we had an outstanding result. Interested parents should endeavour to register their wards for the lessons preparing them for this examination. A pre-SAT examination was given to all our SS1-SS3 students on the 22/10/2011 to further boost their aptitude and expose them to what this examination is all about.

TOEFL on the other hand is Test of English as Foreign Language. Any student wishing to school abroad should write this examination. It is written every month but we prefer only our SS3 students to write it in April. The same goes for SAT. Lessons for this examination are on-going. We have also procured state of the earth facilities to enhance students aptitude for these exams. Please take advantage of this.

WAEC

Registration for the 2012 examination is on going. We solicit/covet the prayers and encouragement of parents from the home front. Parents should use this mid-term break to encourage and talk to all our SS3/JSS3 students to be more studious and focused. As a school we have procured facilities like the E-tutor and past question papers to ensure that a 100% (A1-C6) pass is recorded by all students in the examination.

EXTRA LESSONS:

Parents are also encouraged to pay the fees for their wards attending the student “At Risk” lessons. As a school, we are putting them through one -on -one to ensure that the missing gap in terms of the student learning aptitude is covered.

INFORMATION DESK

v  All SS2 students are to purchase a copy of the WAEC syllabus (2012-2015) from the school at the cost of N700 only. (It is not compulsory but necessary)

v  French or History is compulsory for all SS1 students. Parents are advised to buy the recommended text books for their wards who choose either of them.

v  Oversea trips: Parents should be informed that we have various oversea trips coming up in August. Places to be visited include the U.K,France,Germany,South Africa,Ireland, U.S.A,Dubai,Saudi Arabia,GhanaandSenegal. Students going for this trip shall be approved by the school as visiting shall be based on good conduct and high moral standard.

v  Parents are to buy cardigans for their wards in the school as we are approaching harmathan season.

v  Our boarding students who didn’t come with their white bedsheets during resumption are advised to do so.

v  So many academic programmes were lined up this term for our SS3/JSS3 students. An example is the every Saturday classes for them. The Saturday classes runs from 10:00am -1:00pm. it is free. Parents should advise their wards to take these programmes seriously as SS3/JSS3 are examination classes.

v  The Guidance and Counseling department on the 3^rd of December, 2011 holds her CAREER, UNIVERSITY AND ENTREPRNERSHIP FAIR. Parents and students seeking admission in Universities (home and abroad) are invited. Agents from various schools will be present  at the event.

v  Our College Book Fair will also hold on the 3^rd of December, 2011. Parents and well wishers will have opportunity to buy books of their choice at a  cheaper rate.

v  Teacher’s day was well celebrated. DANBO joined the world to celebrate teachers and the noble profession.

v  The school staged a war this term on the use of VERNACULAR by students. Parents are advised to encourage their wards to speak good English.

v  The school through the Guidance Counselor office took students out to a University fair organized by private universities. It took place in Arewa house.

v  The school celebrated with all “October” babies on the 28^th and 29^th of October. The school will celebrate with all November babies on the 26^th of November. Cakes and other gifts should be brought to the school on the 25^th or 26^th of November, 2011.

CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

The college embarked and is still embarking on many co-curricular activities such as:

SPEECH AND PRIZE GIVING DAY

The programme was organized to honour students who excelled during the 2010/2011 academic session and also to motivate others to excel next time. Prestigious awards and prizes were giving to deserving students and staff. Staff who got 100% (A1-C6) and A-C in the just released WAEC (SSCE) and NECO (JSCE) were given awards. The chairman of the day was Brigadier-General S. Labaran.

SPORTS:

Our special sports day was organized on the 3^rd of November, 2011. This is to prepare students for our forth coming sports festival day coming up on the 23^rd of November, 2011.

Parents who have paid for sports wears and were not given due to shortage or unavailability of it should give their wards the receipt to collect them. All students will be required to put on their sports wear for the event coming up on the 23^rd of November, 2011.

FACILITIES:

In other to boost the teaching – learning process; the school procured instructional materials like:

1.         E-TUTOR:

It’s a question bank that contains 10  years past question papers for both SS3 and JS3 subjects.  The beauty of it is that it will mark the scripts for the students and give the grades after which a certificate will be issued.  Students and staff have found this to be an answer to prayers to solve WAEC, JSCE, NECO issues.

2.         MIMIO – TEACH

This is an ICT devise that enables a teacher teach directly from the net.  The subject, topic and other materials projects to the board.  This is a better version of the interactive board.

3.         OTHERS

Our science laboratory now has a projector to help further strengthen our practical classes. The dining hall has air-conditioners and 4 LCD televisions have all been installed in the hostel.

New sporting equipments were bought to strengthen our sports and extra-curricular activities. Our study/Examination hall now has a new look to meet international standard.  Our long awaited chairs for the college hall have arrived and the process of installing them is on-going.  The hall should be ready for our Drama Day coming up on the 19^th of November, 2011 by 5.00pm. Our music studio has been provided with new musical instruments too.

EDUCTIONAL TRIP & EXCURSIONS

The school embarked on so many educational trips and excursion this half term and will be embarking on some before the end of the term.  The educational trips/Excursions are as follows:-

1.         KADUNA STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY:

Government and social studies students went for this excursion this half term to further boost what have been learnt in class

2.         NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

Our school was invited by the National Assembly to witness a sitting by the House of Representative members and senators. Students who honoured the invitation were given special treatment and were inspired to be leaders that will change our country.

3.         A.B.U. ZARIA

The department of Environmental design invited our school to their annual exhibition which took place on the 24 – 28^th of October.  Students offering Technical Drawing, Fine Art and Visual Arts represented the school.Other excursions were to food and beverages companies and other industries.

4.         YANKARI GAMES RESERVE

All SS3 Students will be going for an educational trip to Yankari games reserve in Bauchi.  The trip is aimed at bringing out the best in our students as they prepare for various external examinations.  The theme for this year’s trip is “Giving my best to get the best”.

FUNFAIR

The school will be organizing her annual funfair programme for the students.  The funfair comes up on the 3^rd of December, 2011.  The gate fee is N100.  Students are to pay N4,000 for the fun packed event.

DEFAULTERS AND DETENTION

As part  of our policy to strengthen the teaching – learning process, students who defaults in note taking, class work, assignment and project will  be detained after school.  Parents should always encourage their wards to do the above mentioned as letters will not be given to parents notifying them of our intention to detain their wards to do their home work or assignment after school.

STAFF

As part of our commitment to excellence, the school employed the services of a psychologist.  His name is Mr. Onotu.  He has a B.Sc and MSC in Clinical Psychology.  He is to help in the character building of our student alongside the effort of the Guidance Counselor .  We have also employed the services of a male and a female Nurse to improve our medical services.

We have a new Vice-Principal Special duties her name is Mrs Kehinde Jonathan. She is replacing Pastor Nnorom who is currently at the Sixth Form school.

SCHOOL FEES

As the term is almost ending, students who have not completed the payment of the school fees WILL NOT be allowed into the school after mid-term break.  The school/college appreciates our parents and call for more commitment.

School fees should be paid to:

FCMB Bank

Account No.                0640513011

Account Name:          DanboInternationalCollege,Kaduna

CALENDAR FOR  THE REMAINING PART OF THE TERM

WISHES

We sincerely wish our students and dear parents journey mercies and Barka da Sallah to you all.  God be with you, keep you and bring you back safely.  We will miss you all.

Principal

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