Academics Office

DIRECTOR OF STUDIES

From the Academic Desk

St Aloysius Girls S.S.S. Bwanda is a Catholic Girls Boarding School has a self-driven, well- motivated, dedicated, devoted, committed team of both senior Nuns, ladies and gentlemen teachers. These teachers have taught our learners very well, assessed them through topical tests and even teaching some remedial lessons. As the New Government policy of promoting sciences, a school has increased on a number of Science Teachers to ensure effective learning and promoting a Government Policy.

The school offers a variety of subjects both at Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) and Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) Levels. At Ordinary level subjects like Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English, Mathematics, Geography, History and Political Education, Christian Religious Education, Principles and Practices in Agriculture, English in Literature, Entrepreneurship Education, Kiswahili, Music, Fine Art and Design, Luganda, Physical Education are taught.

At Advanced Level on the other hand we offer both Science and Arts Combinations. These are:
PEM, PCB, BCM, CAB, BAG, MEG, MEE, MEA, HEG, LEG, HENTG, LENTG, HENTD, DEL, HLG, and DENTL.

Practicals for science subjects are organized and supervised by science teachers to ensure that all our learners are equipped with hands on skills. The office every year organizes two sessions of Careers Talk to our learners in order to emphasize why they are studying the subjects that they offer.

In Field Work
Students at a Geography Field Work Trip in Kasese
Field Work Study at Salt Lake Katwe
Students at an Agriculture Exhibition at Butende
Students attentively listening to an agricultural expert during an exhibition at Butende Technical Institute

Academic Exchange Programs

Our students engage in Academic Exchange Programmes such as attending Seminars in different disciplines like Geography, History, Mathematics, English, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Agriculture, and Entrepreneurship Education among others. These are encouraged because they expose our learners as they interact with different schools. They have also engaged in hands on projects under Entrepreneurship Education such as baking cakes, bread, producing chapatis, liquid soap among others.

Similarly, our teachers have attended New Curriculum workshops organized by NCDC in order to acquaint themselves with relevant information and the New Lower Secondary Curriculum. The administration supports them without reservation.

The school has also engaged our learners in vocational skills such as knitting, hair dressing, and simple agriculture through having vegetable gardens owned and managed by students supervised by the subject teachers.

Academic Awards

Our best performing students who excel at different levels are awarded scholarships. These Academic termly scholarships are obtained after getting the set required percentage. This has made the Academic benchers to keep reading hard in order to maintain their scholarships but has also created competition among students.

Best A-Level 202 Student Receiving Award
The best A-Level Student of 2023 receiving a laptop from the school during the thanksgiving ceremony.
Students attending a Career Talk from professionals

Holistic Eduation

Guidance and counselling organized by a team of senior Nuns, Priests, female and male teachers is given to our students in order to keep them focused and only dwell on Academics as it is the only reason as to why they were sent to school by their parents.

Our students have continued to Excel Academically due to a strong team of senior teachers in different disciplines, team teaching, intensive assessment, hands-on practical lessons and result oriented administration. In the last two years 2022 and 2023, our performance was tremendous at all levels. We thank the good Lord for that success.

Field Work Studies

In order to make what we teach learners real, students have been taken to the outside world to see for themselves. Geography department has organized fieldwork studies in order to expose our learners to different environments in western Uganda in districts of Lyantonde, Mbarara, Rubirizi, Kasese, Bunyangabo, Kabarole, Ntoroko and Bundibugyo. Through such experiences, they have experienced and appreciated nature

Field Work Study at Salt Lake Katwe
Students listening to an expert at the Salt Lake during a Geography Field Work Trip to Kasese