Nyali Primary School and Kindergarten

Below are links to examination results for the just concluded End of June Examinations. Please go through them and discuss with your child.

Mr. John Kombo

School Principal

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8100295.stm

Facebook Swahili version launched

The social-networking website Facebook has launched in Swahili, targeting more than 110m speakers of the language.
A group of Swahili scholars launched the new version with the permission of the California-based internet firm.
Facebook use has spread over the past five years in East and Central Africa, where most Swahili-speakers live.
Analysts say a Hausa version could be launched next in West Africa and Zulu for southern Africa. Facebook already exists in Afrikaans.
Symon Wanda*, one of the project’s initiators, said they wanted to launch a Swahili version to safeguard the future of the language.
“The youth, the future generation, if you look at the biggest percentage of users on Facebook, they are the youth,” he told the BBC’s Network Africa programme.
“They can easily navigate through when it’s maybe a language they understand, which makes it easier to use the Swahili than to use the English.”
The BBC’s Ruth Nesoba, in Nairobi, says the Swahili site has already been on trial for some time and word has spread quickly.
Facebook’s Simon Wanda says they have been monitoring the take-up and says more than 60% of Facebook users in East Africa are already using the Swahili version.
The bulk of Swahili-speakers live in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, parts of the Horn of Africa, Malawi, Mozambique and the Indian Ocean islands.
Facebook already exists in some 50 language versions.

*Simon Wanda is our IT department instructor.

Click on the links to access results for the UPPER PRIMARY classes:

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STD 7

STD 6

STD 5

STD 4

Lower primary scores will be posted later, on a separate post.

Here is the analysis of the performance (Upper Primary) for the end of Month examination completed on 29th May 2009.

ANALYSIS SHEET

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The links to individual pupil results are the separate post on the post above.

Following the AGM held at the school premises on Saturday 23/5/2009, we are happy to announce the following new team of management members:

Chairman: Mr. Daniel K. Tanui

Vice Chairman: Mr. Ali Mandhry

Hon. Secretary: Mr. Humphrey Njiru

Treasurer: Mr. Amos Maunde

Edu. Secretary: Mrs Geraldine Achieng’

Club Affairs: Mrs. Beatrice Odede

Members:

Dr. Sherman

Mr. Titus Kipsang

Mr. Nabhan Swaleh

Mrs. Kassim Mpaata

Mr. J.N Imathiu

Capt. Charles Wasike

Mr. Francis Odero

The link below leads you to the results for Std 8 mid Month examinations done on 13-14th May 2009.

STD 8 MAY MID MONTH

Here are links to the results for Std 7 and 8 examinations done at the end of April 2009.

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Std 8 april end month 2009

Here are the results for End term 1 2009 for the whole school.

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Std 8 sat for the Kenya Private Examinations and these are their results std-8-kenya-private

Std 8 parents are invited to meeting to discuss the selection of Secondary Schools on Tuesday 17th March starting at 4 pm. Kindly seek counsel on the choice of the school where you feel you should be assisted, especially on the choice of National and Provincial schools.

Click on the link to view the results for the respective class:

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Std 8 pupils also sat for an examination which is not being considered during the Indexing exercise.

Here are the results:

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Here are the results of the first and the second indexing examinations

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10th March 2009

We have given the 2009 candidates KCPE registration forms. Please go through carefully and fill in the information required. When filling in the candidates name consider the names in the Birth Certificate.

The following should be the criteria for selecting secondary schools:-

a) 4 National Schools in order of preference. Also consider your child’s academic ability. The cut-mark depends strictly on the overall National performance. Children are therefore required to work extra hard and aim at 440 marks and above.

b) 3 Provincial Schools. These are boarding schools. The first choice should be outside Coast Province. The second choice should be within Mombasa District while the third one should be within the Coast Province.

c) 1 District School, which is a day school and should be within Mombasa District.

For any clarifications, call in at the school and see the Principal. The form should be submitted by Tuesday 17th March 2009.

Thank you and God bless you.

JOHN E. O. KOMBO
P R I N C I P A L

I held a meeting last week with Dr. Omar Tayari on how to come up with an association of old students of Nyali Primary School, and we agreed that any old student willing to join such an effeort shoulod get back to us as soon as possible. You can either contact Mr Tayari or send an email to mpcbulletin@yahoo.com. The email should detail:-

you full name

the period when you were in Nyali primary school (or Mombasa Parents Club)

the current profession

your full postal, work and residential address

your contacts (email, mobile, landline etc)We call upon you all to brainstorm on this issue and so that this dream comes to fruition.

The school is also coming up with learning aids in form of animations. We would like to call upon any old student who can animate some graphics which will be given to you from time to time for the sake of developing an interactive and ICT friendly type of learning.

Wanda S.

ICT and Related Technologies.

Hon. Dr. Nur and Hon. Joho speaking at the function.

Nyali Primary School held its annual Prize Giving Day Saturday graced by Hon Aden Duale, the member of Parliament for Dujis and the Assistant Ministefor Livestock Development (who is also the Vice-Chairman of the Mombasa Parents’ Club, the proprietors of the Community School). The event was also attended by Hon. Ali Hassan Joho, the Kisauni member of Parliament, where the school is located.
Addressing the gathering, the host, Mr. John Kombo, the Principal of the school encouraged parents to cultivate responsibility and ethics and condemned schools involved in cheating. He told the gathering which comprised of parents, pupils and well wishers that he had a dream of starting a secondary section of the school. Contributing to the same, the MP for Kisauni Hon. Ali Hassan Joho promised to lobby members of Parliament to approve the project and promised Ksh 1 million as a personal donation towards the project.
Hon Joho also condemned corruption, impunity and inept bureaucracies in the government. He revealed that tonnes of maize were held up at the Port of Mombasa while there is looming hunger in most parts of the country. He called upon legislators who use the area, including the Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, who has a residence within the Nyali area, President Kibaki who enjoys his holidays in the area among other members, to contribute towards the development of the area, especially boosting of educational facilities.

The Assistant Minister blamed the Group of Eminent Persons led by Dr. Koffi Anna for interfering with the rights of the legislature. Saying that parliament should not be made to work within deadlines to pass the necessary amendments to the constitution to constitute a judicial panel to prosecute alleged perpetrators of Post- Election violence, the Assistant Minister said that the bill would be resubmitted on Tuesday and that the Hague is not a solution to the issue.

Also present was the member of parliament for Bura constituency Hon. Dr Abdi Nassir Nuh.

On the vote of thanks, Mr. Aremo, parent, managed to fund raise Ksh 107,000 as gratitude to the teaching staff for excellence in performance.

some of the prize winners

Transcript of Rev. Lowery’s Inaugural Benediction
Rev. Joseph Lowery, who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr., delivered the benediction at the inaugural ceremony.
[*] LOWERY: God of our weary years, god of our silent tears, thou, who has brought us thus far along the way, thou, who has by thy might led us into the light, keep us forever in the path we pray, lest our feet stray from the places, our god, where we met thee, lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee.
Shadowed beneath thy hand, may we forever stand true to thee, oh God, and true to our native land.
We truly give thanks for the glorious experience we’ve shared this day.
We pay now, oh Lord, for your blessing upon thy servant Barack Obama, the 44th president of these United States, his family and his administration.
He has come to this high office at a low moment in the national, and indeed the global, fiscal climate. But because we know you got the whole world in your hands, we pray for not only our nation, but for the community of nations.
Our faith does not shrink though pressed by the flood of mortal ills.
LOWERY: For we know that, Lord, you are able and you’re willing to work through faithful leadership to restore stability, mend our brokenness, heal our wounds, and deliver us from the exploitation of the poor, of the least of these, and from favoritism toward the rich, the elite of these.
We thank you for the empowering of thy servant, our 44th president, to inspire our nation to believe that yes we can work together to achieve a more perfect union.
And while we have sown the seeds of greed — the wind of greed and corruption, and even as we reap the whirlwind of social and economic disruption, we seek forgiveness and we come in a spirit of unity and solidarity to commit our support to our president by our willingness to make sacrifices, to respect your creation, to turn to each other and not on each other.
LOWERY: And now, Lord, in the complex arena of human relations, help us to make choices on the side of love, not hate; on the side of inclusion, not exclusion; tolerance, not intolerance.
And as we leave this mountain top, help us to hold on to the spirit of fellowship and the oneness of our family. Let us take that power back to our homes, our workplaces, our churches, our temples, our mosques, or wherever we seek your will.
Bless President Barack, First Lady Michelle. Look over our little angelic Sasha and Malia.
We go now to walk together as children, pledging that we won’t get weary in the difficult days ahead. We know you will not leave us alone.
With your hands of power and your heart of love, help us then, now, Lord, to work for that day when nations shall not lift up sword against nation, when tanks will be beaten into tractors, when every man and every woman shall sit under his or her own vine and fig tree and none shall be afraid, when justice will roll down like waters and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around…
(LAUGHTER)
… when yellow will be mellow…
(LAUGHTER)
LOWERY: … when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen.
AUDIENCE: Amen.
LOWERY: Say Amen.
AUDIENCE: Amen.
LOWERY: And Amen.
AUDIENCE: Amen.
(APPLAUSE)

My fellow citizens:
I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.
Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents.
So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans.
That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.
These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land — a nagging fear that America’s decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights.
Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America — they will be met.
On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.
On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.
We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.
In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of short-cuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted — for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things — some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path toward prosperity and freedom.
For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.
For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and plowed the hard earth.
For us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg; Normandy and Khe Sanh.
Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction.
This is the journey we continue today. We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing pat, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions — that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.
For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act — not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. And all this we will do.
Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions — who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.
What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them — that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. And those of us who manage the public’s dollars will be held to account — to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day — because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.
Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control – and that a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart — not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.
As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience’s sake. And so to all other peoples and governments who are watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my father was born: Know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and that we are ready to lead once more.
Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions. They understood that our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please. Instead, they knew that our power grows through its prudent use; our security emanates from the justness of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint.
We are the keepers of this legacy. Guided by these principles once more, we can meet those new threats that demand even greater effort — even greater cooperation and understanding between nations. We will begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people and forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan. With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat and roll back the specter of a warming planet. We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and non-believers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.
To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict or blame their society’s ills on the West — know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.
To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world’s resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.
As we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, patrol far-off deserts and distant mountains. They have something to tell us today, just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the ages. We honor them not only because they are guardians of our liberty, but because they embody the spirit of service; a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves. And yet, at this moment — a moment that will define a generation — it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit us all.
For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter’s courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent’s willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.
Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends — hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism — these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility — a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.
This is the price and the promise of citizenship.
This is the source of our confidence — the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny.
This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed — why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent mall, and why a man whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.
So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled. In the year of America’s birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood. At a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people:
“Let it be told to the future world … that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive … that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet [it].”
America. In the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children’s children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God’s grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.

School opens on Monday 5th January 2008. All pupils are expected to be in school by 7.00 am. Learning activities will kick off as per the normal schedule.

We thank God that we have come to the end of 2008 and wew are now on the first day of 2009. 2008 was an eventfulyear, with a lot of setbacks which we managed to overcome and the achievements realized so far attest to this. The ICT sector has been a major boost in the relay of informationto the public domain and especially through this weblog. We have availed information through the blog and email as soon as it was available. I want to take this opprtuinty to thank all who checked on us and especially those who left us a comment. This blog is what you have made it.

VISITORS TO THE WEBLOG

Below are the summary tables for the year (since June 2008)

Below, we provide you with the stats per month

Below are posts that got most viewership:

The year also saw me undergo the most intense reasearch in  ICT I have done in the recent past, into data and FTP technologies for mobile telephony. I developed a format which could be accessed through most mobile phones, and encouraged all to use the google since it had the necessary transcorders for the results. I also created a poll on the site on whether or not you could view the results on your mobile hand set. Unfortunately, the poll was only viewable on a PC, thus those who used the mobile phone alone could not participate in the poll. However, these are the poll results:

I personally feel very encouraged with these statistics and hope that we shall expand our viewersthis year. We also anticipate many developments in ICT and the implementation of the remaining phases of the  ICT Strategic Plan (2008-2010)