Lady of Mercy School

The Lady of Mercy School is an English medium educational non-government school in Arusha, Tanzania. It was founded in 2003. The school's motto is "Arise and Shine". It caters students for both the rich and the poor residents of the town.

The school believes that while what students know is important, the true measure of a student’s education is to explore the limitations of their knowledge.

Impetus

Due to growing demand for quality and affordable education in Tanzania, the public outcry is at its highest now than ever before. Fortunately, this is happening at the time when the Government is also giving education its due importance.

The Government through the Ministry of Education has and is still implementing numerous programs to enhance primary school student enrolment all over Tanzania. MEM and MES are among such programs, which also aim to promote the quality of education that is offered.

In order to achieve these objectives, the government is currently opening new schools and expanding the existing ones to boost their student enrolment capacity. On the other hand, the Government is also encouraging public and religious institution and private people to support the initiative through establishing new primary schools.

The main objective of the Lady of Mercy School is to support the Government in achieving its 2025 millennium goals.

Objectives

Lady of Mercy primary school is focussed on the following objectives:

1) A clean, safe and friendly environment.

2) A low student to staff ratio.

3) An interactive curriculum for the staff and children to work together with.

Values

The school believes in supporting students and thus allowing them to excel.

The School's History

Established in 2003, as a co-educational institution, the Lady of MercySchool is one of Tanzania's leading non-government schools. The Lady of Mercy School's motto is "Arise and Shine".

Parent Teacher Meetings

Open Days serve as an occasion for parents and teachers to interact and complete the triangle of the three important stakeholders in any school; teachers, parents and students.

Every term, the School organises an Open Day for each level. Subject teachers spend two to three hours with parents discussing their child’s academic progress, attendance, discipline and school participation. The Head of School also addresses queries from parents, seeks feedback, solicits parental involvement in various activities and updates them of various curricular and co-curricular developments and achievements.

The School also organizes an orientation programmed for new students. It serves as an induction for parents and students to the school ethos, tradition, culture, facilities and its staff. We encourage parents to be involved in the social and emotional development of their child. Our focus lies in developing parents as critical partners, actively contributing to the effective functioning of the School.

Donate

This institution would highly appreciate any contributions to its Endeavour. We believe the it would serve the course and we are extremely grateful to the few who have expressed their support by contributing a Bus for the children.

The school also has close relationship with various NGO's dealing with Children's homes and those that Fund and Support the helpless child without education and health care, i.e. Olorien children's home, FSEHCT - Fund to support Education and Healthcare fro children in Tanzania [Germany Initiative]

Curriculum

The School follows the Tanzanian National Curriculum. The School curriculum is continuously being enriched to ensure students receive a balanced educational experience. The following subjects are offered:

English French Swahili History Geography Civics Mathematics Physics Chemistry Biology Computers

Students choose a total of eight subjects with at least one subject from each group. All subjects are to be taken at the extended level. The achievement grades available at extended level are A. B. C. D., A. B. C..

An ICE (International Certificate of Education) is awarded to candidates who pass in seven subjects including 2 from Group I and one from each group II to V. The seventh subject may be from any of the syllabus groups.

Home Stay

Adjacent to the school, we are proud to introduce a tourist homestay for any visitor who will need a vacation that is considerably cheap and as well as enjoy and manifest through the Vitality of the Human Cultures.

It is a small setup that can accommodate 15 guests who wish to reside with the family and local community at an affordable cost.