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Nov 12, 2018, 3:54 PM
Last year Child of Hope School attracted a lot of local attention with their stunning results in the national Primary Leaving Exams – and now another cohort of children in primary class seven have just sat their exam.
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Jul 31, 2018, 4:11 PM
In this 5-minute video, you'll see the work of Child of Hope in Namatala slum and the amazing difference made by both free education at the school and our innovative Family Support Team that works alongside it.
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Jul 24, 2018, 3:07 PM
Please could you help us build a secondary school for slum children?
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Mar 7, 2018, 2:51 PM
Staff in the nursery section at our school have been developing highly-effective approaches to teaching literacy and numeracy – and this is enabling the children to achieve measurable greater success.
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Feb 27, 2018, 11:31 AM
Our school retention figures are amazing - we mention this because the problem of children dropping out of school is extremely common. Our school drop-out rate is less than 1%, while official Ugandan primary school dropout rate is 47%.
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Feb 14, 2018, 3:29 PM
In our nursery baby class we use activity-based learning rather than rote learning, which means that the children are actively engaged...
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Sep 18, 2017, 2:57 PM
Our nursery teachers are pioneering an effective learning system for children than you won’t see in other nursery schools in Uganda.
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Apr 26, 2017, 3:06 PM
Interesting stats from the Ugandan national 2016 Primary Leaving Exam results reveal that Child of Hope primary pupils achieved exam results well above average, with 100% pass rate.
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Jan 4, 2016, 11:56 AM
Our school has reached a major milestone… with the first children finishing their primary education! These are the very first pupils that started with Child of Hope, when we ran a small nursery class from a borrowed church hall.
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Nov 26, 2015, 4:17 PM
Around the time Child of Hope nursery first started in a borrowed church hall in 2008, director Moses Okotel was already casting his eye ahead to primary and secondary education – and stepped in to significantly change prospects for a handful of slum children by sponsoring their education at other schools.