Primary School: People and Roles

• A school is a place of learning

Our School

• SUMMIT is given as an example for a primary school.
• The current headteacher is Mr. Mpaata Francis
• The director of SUMMIT primary school is Kwasa Richards
• Summit primary school is located in Uganda, specifically in Jinja district, Jinja city

People at School

• Headteachers head teachers
  • Headteachers promote unity in schools
  • Headteachers supervise the teachers and other workers
• Deputy Headteachers organize examinations
  • Deputy Headteachers carry out duties assigned by the headteacher
  • Deputy Headteachers act in the absence of the headteacher
• Teachers teach, guide, and counsel children
  • Teachers promote discipline
  • Teachers care for pupils
• Bursars collect bank slips and fees
  • Bursars bank money (fees) and pays workers
• Cleaners keep the school clean
• Cooks serve food to pupils, clean the utensils and food
• Matrons take care of pupils at school
  • Matrons wash pupils' clothes
  • Matrons clean the dormitory
  • Matrons teach pupils morals
• Secretaries type exams and letters and welcome visitors
• Store Keepers keep school property
• Security guards guard and protect the school
• Directors plan for the school

School Environment

• The School environment includes buildings, furniture, animals, vehicles, play materials, birds, utensils, and stationery

Building Use

• Latrines are for defecating or urinating
• Kitchens are for cooking
• Classrooms are for learning
• Dormitories are for sleeping
• Stores are for keeping food
• Libraries are for keeping textbooks
• Sick bays are where children go for medical care
• Offices are where the headteacher, deputy, bursar and secretaries work
• Dining rooms are where children have meals
• Bathrooms are for bathing

School Stationery

• Books - for writing in and for reading
• Pens/pencils are for writing
• Colored pencils are for shading
• Rulers are for drawing lines
• Rubbers are for rubbing
• Papers for writing on

School Furniture

• Desks – For sitting at
• Benches – for sitting on
• Tables – For putting on books while writing
• Cupboards – for keeping in books
• Chairs – For sitting on
• Shelves – for keeping in books

Utensils at School

• Forks, Spoons, cups, plates, saucepans and buckets

Other Things at School

• Vehicles transport Children
• Brooms are for sweeping
• Water tanks store water
• Play grounds are for playing
• Taps provide drinking water

Where People Work

• Headteachers, Bursars, Deputy headteachers and secretaries all work in the office
• Cleaners work on the compound
• Cooks work in the kitchen
• Teachers work in the classroom
• Gatekeepers work at the gate
• Librarians work in the library
• Matrons work in the dormitory

Classroom Items

• Books are for writing in
• Pencils are for writing
• Dusters are for cleaning the chalkboard
• Chalk is for writing on the chalkboard
• Blackboards are for writing on work
• Brooms are for sweeping
• Rags are for mopping
• Desks are for sitting on
• Tables are for putting on books while writing
• Shelves are for keeping in books
• Benches are for sitting on
• Chairs are for sitting on
• Rulers are for drawing lines
• Charts are for reading
• Rubbers are for rubbing in books
• Colored pencils are for coloring/shading pictures

School Cleanliness

• Slashing, sweeping latrines, scrubbing bathrooms, mopping classrooms, picking rubbish, and digging

Games at School

• Include Potato Sack Race, Jump Rope Race, Walking Stick, Egg and Spoon Race, Hula Hoop, Three-Legged Race, Balloon Pop Relay Race, Relay Race, Hopper Ball, Hula-Hoop Ring Toss

School Symbols

• School flags, badges, sign posts, uniforms, address, prayer, mission, motto, anthem, and school

School Flag

• The school flag's colors are orange, blue and black.
• School badge is a feature on the school flags
• School flags provide identity

School Badge

• School badge features - motto, children and name

School Sign Post

• Sign posts have the school name, address, and motto
• Sign posts direct visitors to the school

School Uniform

• Colors of the school uniform are blue, white and red
• School uniforms make children look smart and provides identity

Keeping Schools Clean

• Removing cobwebs
• Picking and/or burning rubbish
• Mopping, sweeping classrooms, dormitories & the compound
• Scrubbing latrines
• Painting walls
• Digging the bush on the compound

Things Schools Need

• Books, textbooks, chalk, and utensils
• Furniture and buildings
• Water and uniforms
• Computers and play materials
• Wall clocks and vans
• Play grounds and pencils
• Food and electricity
• Money and rulers

School Needs

• May be sourced from the parents, markets, shops, or banks
• May also be sourced from farms or a friends/donors

School Property

• Wall clocks
• Vans
• Buildings
• Chalk
• Play materials
• Utensils
• Computers
• Furniture
• Textbooks
• Utensils
• Garden tools

Ways of Caring for School Property

• Washing of plates and cups
• Keeping textbooks in shelves
• Dusting tables
• Cleaning classrooms
• Repairing vehicles and computers
• Cleaning garden tools after use

Personal Property

• These items examples include bags, books, pens, pencils, mattresses, books, uniforms, bedsheets, and rubbers

Caring for Personal Property

• Keeping books in shelves and washing uniforms and bedsheets
• by keeping pencils in bags and polishing shoes

Neighboring Schools

• Are schools near our school
• Examples are Sunlight P/s, Kampala Quality P/s, Serena P/s, Hajara p/s

Safe Ways To School

• Safe ways to and from school includes Moving in groups, crossing from the zebra crossing, avoiding playing on the road, and walking from the footpath

Ways of Going to School

• Include going by car, motorcycle, or bus & walking on foot

Dangers on the Way to School

• Include animal bites, getting knocked down by a car, insect stings, stones from people, and falling off a tree
• Also include drowning

Causes of Road Accidents

• Playing on the road, bad roads, overloading, untrained drivers, and drunken drivers

Road Signs

• Guide road users on the road and helps to control accidents and traffic

Important things on the way to school;

• Include Schools, Churches, Markets, Shops, Hills, Valleys, Roads, Hospitals, Clinics, Trees, Houses

Our Home

• It is a place where we live.
• The people at home include Father, Mother, Sister, brother, Niece, nephew, uncle, aunt, cousin, grandfather and grand mother
• Father and mother start a home /family

Types of Families

• A family is a group of people living together related by blood or marriage.
• A nuclear family is a family having father, mother and their children.
• An extended family is a family having father, mother, their children and other relatives.

Relatives in a Family:

• Aunt, grandmother, nephew, grandmother, uncle, niece, cousin

Roles of Family Members

• Father:*
• Buys food and clothes
• Disciplines children
• Pays family members
• Pays house rent
• Mother:*
• Cooks food
• Washes clothes
• Cleans the home
• Buys food and clothes
• Disciplines children
• Children:*
• Fetch water
• Help in cooking
• Wash utensils and clothes
• Clean the home
• Collect firewood

Family Relationships

• Father and mother are my parents
• The father of my parents in my grandfather
• The mother of my parents is grandmother
• The sister of my parents is my aunt
• The brother of my parents is my uncle
• The child of one's uncle/aunt is a cousin
• The son of one's brother/sister is a nephew
• The daughter of one's brother/sister is a niece

Wrong People at Home:

• Rapists, kinappers, murderers, smokers and thieves with intentions of abducting, defiling and making you drunkards

Bad Behavior at Home:

• Includes Stealing, Fighting, Quarrelling, Smoking, Stoning and burning property at home

Needs of a Family

• There are basic needs and luxury needs and the family needs to have the basic

Examples Of food come from

• Markets, Shops, Gardens, Lakes, Swans, Super Markets and Rivers

Examples of Food Are:

• Beans, Mangoes, Matoke, Bread, Cabbage, Milk, Rice, Soda

Sources Of Water from

• Lakes, rivers, swamps, boreholes, tap and the rain

Uses of Water are for

• Drinking, cooking, washing and for bathing

A Good Home Should Have

• A kitchen, Bathroom, Compound, Latrine, rack, House and a Dustin/ rubbish pit

Things Found At Home

• Buildings, Plants, Animals, Birds and water tanks
• Buildings at Home Include a House, Bathroom, Kitchen, granary and the Latrine

Types of Houses

• Permanent and Temporary

Examples of Permanent Houses

• Bungalow, Storeyed Permanent houses are housed which stay for a long time

Examples of Temporary Houses

• Tent, Kiosk, Hut and Unipot

More On Temporary Houses

• They are houses which stay for a short time

Uses Of Houses

• For protection and shelter
• For keeping in our property and sleeping in.

Rooms In a House and Their Uses

• Bedroom For sleeping in.
• Kitchen - For cooking from.
• Latrine For defecating in.
• Dining room – For having meals from.
• Sitting room - for sitting in.
• Store For keeping things and car in the garage.
• Bathroom – For bathing from.

Things Found In The House:

• Bedroom beds, bed sheets, blankets, clothes.
• Sitting room Mats, chairs, tables, cupboard
• Kitchen cups, plates, saucepans, buckets, pot, charcoal, store, spoons, forks, mortar, pestle.
• Latrine Scrubbing brush, water, soap.
• Garage Car, bicycle, motorcycle.
• Store Food, charcoal, garden tools.
• Dining room Cupboard, fridge, chairs, table.

Caring For Things In The House:

• Wash and Keep safe the Plates,Cups and Utensils
• Wash the clothes and Repair Chairs
• Dust Furniture in the home

Building Materials.

• These are used to build a house and come in Types
• Modern building materials and Local building materials

Examples of of Materials used to build strong houses:

• Bricks,Cement,Concrete, Iron bars, Sand, and Glass

Local building materials.

• These are materials used to build temporary house
• Examples are for Tiles, Ironsheets, Ironbars
• Glass, Cement,Nails, Paint, and Grass – bus

Sources Of building materials:

• Are Reeds from the Jungle
• Animals from Animals dung
• Poles /timber from the forest or trees
• sand comes from the Lakes or Swamps Stones used for Bricks from Lakes and soils

III; Our Community

• It is a group of people living and working together.

Examples of communities:

• Market community, Church community, Mosque community,
• Bank community, garage community, home community, village community
• School community, town community and Polices community

Hospital community:

• people in the community and their occupation:*
• Barber – cuts people’s hair Cobbler – repairs shoes
• Farmer - grows crops
• Doctor – treats people
• Teacher – teaches people
• Tailor – sews clothes.
• Mechanic – repairs vehicles
• Pilot – Flies aeroplanes Market vendor - sells things in the market.
• Fisherman – catches fish from water bodies
• Fishmonger – sells fish
• Carpenter – makes furniture
• Priest – Leads prayers in church
• Imam- Leads prayers in the mosque
• Policeman – Keeps law and order
• Nurse – cares for sick people
• Banker – gives out money in the bank Shopkeeper – sells things in the shop Butcher – sells meat Chef - cooks food in the hotel.

People in the Community

• People Live-work relationship:*
• Priest Lives and Works - church
• Imam - mosque
• Policeman – police station
• Nurse , Doctor lives in hospital
• Banker - bank
• shopkeeper - shop
• butcher – butcher’s
• chef - hotel
• barber - barber’s
• cobbler - workshop
• farmer - farm
• Teacher – school
• Pilot – airport
• Mechanic - garage
• Carpenter - workshop
• Market vendor – market
• Grocer – grocer’s

Activities In Community

• Includes Fishing, keeping cattle, farming , trading, building, washing, Mmining,Circumcision and the Marriage.

Important Key Places:

-School, Hospital, Post office, Radio station, Market,church, Mosque, bank, Police station and Airport

• Also, Shop, Garage, Recreation centre and Farms are all Part of town.