Full Gospel Secondary School Kumba closes up academic year with prize awards

 

 

Speech presented by Mambo Emerencia Koke, the Principal of the Full Gospel Secondary School Kumba on the occasion of the end of year Price Award and Graduation Ceremony of form five students on the 19^th of May 2016.

We are here today to celebrate success. The route to success is rough and rugged. It is full of difficult tasks that call for diligent tools, inconvenient hurdles and demand for hard work, rough challenges that require ruggedness in courage. We are happy that by the special grace of God, we are gathered to celebrate these ones who put in all it required and today we are all joining them to celebrate. We are evaluating what they finished and not what they started. These are those who made up their minds not to accept defeat until they made the last attempt. Such will be going home with a price. We heartily welcome you and it is our desire that you will not consider this sacrifice a waste of time by the time we leave this place. We promise a wonderful moment.

The Full Gospel Secondary School Kumba is an academic mould where children are molded to become responsible citizens of integrity. Last year we were blessed with a wonderful performance at the GCE Ordinary Level. We scored 91.16% and we are hoping for a better result this year.

Mambo Emerencia Koke, Principal FUGOSEC Kumba

To our students who are graduating here today, this is not the end of the academic year. It is just the beginning. We encourage you to make a commitment to excellence which is a fundamental step on the success journey. Putting the best construction on your life style i.e. doing your best in everything you do.

Passion for excellence continues to dominate the thought of every person who aims at great achievement and remains the driving force in the activities of every purpose driven achiever.  We believe you will not settle for mediocrity but strive for excellence. “And daily discipline separates the excellent from the mediocre.” Excellence awaits the diligent and focused person. We will like you to know that there is no short cut to any place worth going. Reaching your potentials require focus. Therefore be determined to excel for determination is the great quality that enables you to overcome all setbacks, disappointment, failure and every obstacle that life throws on your path. You have a destiny you must fulfill. Become the best doctors, engineers, journalists, pastors, evangelists and what have you.

We congratulate our parents, our teachers and all that have put efforts together to enable the success we are celebrating today. May God continue to bless you.

 

“We will work hard and grow into an educational force in Cameroon”

–Rev. Njayo David Njemo-Education Board Chairman, Full Gospel Church Cameroon.

 

 What are your general impressions on this very important occasion that just rounded up here at Down Hill Mbonge Road in Kumba?

It has been very wonderful. I enjoyed what the children did here today and it made me to appreciate more and more what the children are inculcating in this children. Their performances here today showed that they have been receiving something.

Could you give us a brief history of the educational activities of the Full Gospel Mission in Cameroon?

Yes the educational activities of the Full Gospel Mission started about 30 years after the implantation of the church in Cameroon. We did not start this mission alongside with education. We started first of all with the preaching of the Gospel. We went ahead opening churches in various regions of this country and training pastors. However, around thirty years afterwards, we thought of really opening schools. Our aim was to contribute our own little quota to what the Government is already doing. Our aim was also to bring up young people who will have both the head and the heart. They should not only have a full head but also a full heart. This will permit them to better propel the country forward putting God in everything that they do. Our educational emphasis is to train the whole mind in order to produce a total mind.

What is your take on the declaration by some quarters that your mission is one of the growing educational forces in Cameroon?

We are still growing and are not yet where the other big ones are but we are surely working and will grow into something. It is evident that we want to grow to attain our best possible capacity. We will work hard and grow into an educational force in Cameroon.

 

“I can comfortably say that our secondary schools are among the best”

-Musa Charles Nganga- Full Gospel Mission National Education Secretary

What are your impressions after such a wonderful graduation ceremony?

I feel very proud of the activities that our children have performed today before their parents and Government executives as well as the general public. This to show that our children are climbing and doing exactly what we as a Full Gospel Mission intend our children to carry out as products of the Full Gospel Mission. We are running our education from the Nursery, the Primary and Secondary as well as High School education. Even though we started late, the impact of what we are putting in is seen in the fact that our school children are doing an excellent work. In Primary school you hear every year that our schools have scored a hundred percent at the Government Common Entrance and at the First School Leaving Certificate. In Secondary School like in the CAP Exams we score averagely 86%. When you go to the GCE Ordinary Levels just like you heard the results here today our schools score from 92% upwards. This is to show that we are really doing something. You cannot do all of this without the presence of God. God is the only source of energy for us to forge ahead. We first of all train our children to know Jesus. When they know and fear Jesus they will never know failure. Our Secondary and High Schools are doing very well and I can comfortably say that we are among the best. The growth rate falls between 75% and 85%.

« With the fear of God, little distractions that make children to fail will be put aside » Mambo Emerencia Koke, Principal FUGOSEC Kumba

How was the beginning of the 2015-2016 Academic year at Full Gospel Secondary School Kumba?
I want to say the school started with a lot of zeal and enthusiasm. We saw very happy young children eager to come to secondary school. Those who had been home for three months were equally very happy to be back in school. I think everything started well. In my school all the Administrative staff and the teachers were present and school effectively began. What I mean is that school was on and classes effectively started. I think it was a successful beginning. Attendance was not fully a hundred percent since some had to stay home for one reason or the other. Some complained of lack of money while others complained of health problems but about two thirds of the population turned up.
With the present security situation in the country added to the fact that the Regional Delegate for Secondary Education in the Southwest Region further talked about it during the sector conference, what measures are you putting in place to beef up security?

At FUGOSEC Kumba, Security has never really been a problem as such and if you look around you will bear witness to that. As you can see we have a fence, and apart from the physical fence, we have guards, both in the day and at night. Everybody coming in here must leave the ID card at the gate and only collect it and sign out when leaving the campus. I think we have taken every measure to maintain security.

How did the 2014-2015 academic year end from point of view of results and what measures have you put in place to make sure that the results are improved upon?.

We ended with 90.16% at the GCE Ordinary levels and we had a good number of students with 11, 10 , 9, and 8 papers. I want to say the results were good though not the best. so we are putting in place measures to make sure that we have better results in 2015-2016. The form fives started on the 16th of August and so far, they’ve had three weeks of classes, orientation, thus creating a good atmosphere for a hitch free take off of the academic year. This was accompanied by some counseling and we believe that things will be better. We are trying to put in place good disciplinary measures that will help them to develop the character of studying and of seeing the importance of their education. With this, coupled with the pedagogic aspect of it, we have confidence.

What do you think accounts for the very low national percentage at the GCE O levels in Cameroon?.

I think the first problem is that of discipline. If you look at the ages of our students in form five you will see that they are quite young and still very playful and don’t yet know why they are in school. They as such need a lot of attention and follow up even after the teachers have done their work in class. Left on their own, they cannot do anything. Here by the Grace of God, we have teachers who are also counselors, Discipline Masters who are always there. If we can all see them as children who still do not have the will power and the capacity to take good decisions then things will improve.

What is your message to the education family?.

Our schools need a lot of work. Here we are bringing in a lot of Biblical world views into our teaching. Our education is Christ centered. We have academics and we have God. These are the two wings in our curriculum. We are going in for the hidden part which is the fear of God and bringing it into the lives of the students.Children need God and most of the things that cause them to fail are those little distractions. With the fear of God, those distractions will be put aside. They know they have to live a life that is holly and righteous. Our disciplinary measures are not geared towards behavioural development but are rather punitive. This pushes the child to hate the environment. If a student fails to do a Mathematics assignment and you send the student out of class then the punishment serves no purpose. If you ask that student to solve that problem a hundred times at the end of the day, the student will have a mastery of Mathematics. When we teach the children seeing the purpose of God in them then we will make each student to see that they have the ability to make it.

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