Sunshine celebrates grade 11 results

Parents, guardians, teachers, learners and management at the Sunshine Private College in Eros, Windhoek, last week celebrated the good performances of the 2022 grade 11 learners at the school, as well as the registration of the school as a grade 12 learning and examination centre by the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture.

This is against the background of the poor 2022 grade 11 and grade 12 results nationwide.

Sunshine Private College board chairperson Sylvia Kalenga praised the teachers, and urged them to perform better this year. She commended the healthy relationship between the school and parents, emphasising that the strong ties and collaboration between the two contributed significantly to the good performance of the learners.

“Through hard work and the drive to provide quality education, parents and teachers worked tirelessly in 2022, and upgraded the laboratory and the library. We are happy that the ministry of education granted the school Advanced Subsidiary level (Grade 12) status, commencing this year,” said Kalenga.

Basking in the glory of the school’s success, principal Nomakando Kangira promised to make more resources available to facilitate meaningful teaching and learning, adding that management was always upbeat about the good performance of grade 11 learners.

“These results are encouraging. They indicate that with more resources and support, our teachers are capable of achieving better results. We also pay tribute to our 2022 grade 11 learners for putting into practice what they learnt in the classroom,” she observed, adding that low or high learner performance depends on many factors.

On the registration of the school as a grade 12 centre, Kangira said: “We thank the ministry of education for positively considering our application. We take it as the ministry’s recognition of our commitment in the education of Namibian children from preschool, primary, secondary and tertiary levels. With this kind of support, the sky is the limit for us in providing quality education to the nation; we will do what we know best.”

The school produced 16 grade 11 learners who qualified for AS level studies this year.