Students head back to school. [Photo/Daily Nation]
Public schools opened Tuesday nationally with relatively low school attendance in a number of institutions in Nairobi.
Bookshops, bus stations, and uniform shops were centers of activity as parents accompanied their children to shop as they go back to school for the first term which has a lot in store for them.
This will be the year when the Ministry of Education Science and Technology will be putting in practice the 2-6-3-3-3 education curriculum which continues to elicit mixed reactions despite Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’I’s assurance that the roll-out will be seamless.
A number of pupils, however, did not report to school because of the on-going confusion in the transport sector, following the night travel ban.
Accompanied by their parents, hand in hand, jovial-looking pupils walked into the Moi primary school in Thika bracing the chilly weather condition, heeding the ministry of education’s call to report to school Tuesday.
Queues of parents would go unnoticed, perhaps waiting to consult on the school requirements and programmes.
Though a number of institutions reported relatively low school attendance, teachers were happy to receive pupils for the first academic the term of 2018 after a two and half month holiday.