Nyadire school system
There are approximately 1,200 students in the Nyadire School System, preschool through high school. Dr. Offarrel established the system in 1939.
Nyadire Primary School has 744 pupils who move from ECD (Early Child Development) to grade 7. ECDA is for children 3 and 4 years old, and ECDB is for children 4 and 5 years old, each class having around 42 children. At grade 7, students sit for their first public exam run by ZIMSEC, the national examining board. The exam cover four subjects math, Shona, English, and general paper. General paper includes environmental science, social studies, art, craft, RME, AIDS, home economics, music, and physical education.
Nyadire High School was opened in 1977 with an enrollment of 72 boys. It offered secondary education with a technical bias. After independence in 1980 the school began to enroll girls as well. Today the school has an enrollment of 305 boys and 295 girls, most of whom are boarders.
The school offers secondary education from form 1 to form 6. Subjects offered up to form 4 include English, Shona, Math, Science, History, Geography, Agriculture, Technical Graphics, Building Studies, Accounts, Commerce, Fashion and Fabrics, Computers and English Literature.
At “A” Level the school offers: Math, Business Studies, Accounting, Geography, Biology, Agriculture and Economics.
Students write an “O” Level national examination after four years and an “A” Level national examination two years later after completing “O” Level. After completing “A” Level, students go to university or college for three or so years depending on the degree program or course. Upon graduation they are employed as technicians, teachers, doctors, journalists, etc.
A typical day at Nyadire begins with breakfast at 6:00 a.m. At 7:00 a.m., students attend school assembly for twenty minutes on Mondays and Fridays and Chapel on Tuesdays. Instruction follows until 10 when they have a 15-minute tea break. More instruction takes place until 1:00 when they go for lunch. After lunch on Mondays and Tuesdays they go for lessons, but on Wednesdays and Thursdays they go for sport. On Friday afternoon the students are busy cleaning the school. There is a two-hour evening study every day from Monday to Friday. On Saturday students clean their hostels in the morning and go for studies or jive to music the whole afternoon. Sunday students go to church after 10 and after lunch they go for study.
Income Generating Projects
Achievements
Future Plans
Contributors: Violet Mutasa, Primary School teacher, and Nicodemus Bandira, headmaster, Nyadire High School
Nyadire Primary School has 744 pupils who move from ECD (Early Child Development) to grade 7. ECDA is for children 3 and 4 years old, and ECDB is for children 4 and 5 years old, each class having around 42 children. At grade 7, students sit for their first public exam run by ZIMSEC, the national examining board. The exam cover four subjects math, Shona, English, and general paper. General paper includes environmental science, social studies, art, craft, RME, AIDS, home economics, music, and physical education.
Nyadire High School was opened in 1977 with an enrollment of 72 boys. It offered secondary education with a technical bias. After independence in 1980 the school began to enroll girls as well. Today the school has an enrollment of 305 boys and 295 girls, most of whom are boarders.
The school offers secondary education from form 1 to form 6. Subjects offered up to form 4 include English, Shona, Math, Science, History, Geography, Agriculture, Technical Graphics, Building Studies, Accounts, Commerce, Fashion and Fabrics, Computers and English Literature.
At “A” Level the school offers: Math, Business Studies, Accounting, Geography, Biology, Agriculture and Economics.
Students write an “O” Level national examination after four years and an “A” Level national examination two years later after completing “O” Level. After completing “A” Level, students go to university or college for three or so years depending on the degree program or course. Upon graduation they are employed as technicians, teachers, doctors, journalists, etc.
A typical day at Nyadire begins with breakfast at 6:00 a.m. At 7:00 a.m., students attend school assembly for twenty minutes on Mondays and Fridays and Chapel on Tuesdays. Instruction follows until 10 when they have a 15-minute tea break. More instruction takes place until 1:00 when they go for lunch. After lunch on Mondays and Tuesdays they go for lessons, but on Wednesdays and Thursdays they go for sport. On Friday afternoon the students are busy cleaning the school. There is a two-hour evening study every day from Monday to Friday. On Saturday students clean their hostels in the morning and go for studies or jive to music the whole afternoon. Sunday students go to church after 10 and after lunch they go for study.
Income Generating Projects
- Piggery
- Poultry
- Garden
Achievements
- Best “O” Level results in the district
- Bronze and gold medals in sport
Future Plans
- Completing an “A” Level
- Constructing a composite Science Laboratory
- Building a girls hostel
- Installation of solar panels for hot water
Contributors: Violet Mutasa, Primary School teacher, and Nicodemus Bandira, headmaster, Nyadire High School
