By Hillary keingana
BUSHENYI/SHEEMA: The festival, which attracted seven schools from across western Uganda was hosted by Kibingo Girls Secondary School on 17th August, it run under the theme Greening Schools, Environmental Protection: Our responsibility.
The schools that participated included Kibingo Girls, Bweranyangi Girls, Kyeizooba Girls, MaryHill, Kibubura Girls, Kashaka Girls and Ankole SS.
Bweranyangi Girls were declared and crowned champions during the festivals grand finale at Kibingo Girls after scoring 883 points, Kibingo Girls followed in second position with 881 points, then Kibubura Girls followed in the third position and in the fourth position was Kyeizooba Girls as they were the only four schools that qualified for nationals from western region as other remaining three participants were eliminated.
Hamphrey Ahimbisibwe, Coordinator MDD, Western Region, who presided over the closing ceremony appreciated western schools for being competitive at National level.
‘’ Wherever we go, we come out victorious so we want to thank those schools that have been presenting us very well and have always been ranked high at the nationals year after year and we do appreciate. We thank Kibingo Girls for hosting us so well, feeding us so well and making sure everybody here feels at home’’, Ahimbisibwe said.
He explained that, ‘’I have got a circular that the National festival will be running from 22nd August and we shall be performing jointly with Kenya because we discovered that the concepts of this year’s festival are the same as theirs (Kenya.)” “During the meeting we proposed that schools should report on 19th August and the matter was to be taken to the permanent secretary to release an invitation to your schools,” he noted.
Flavia Ninsiima, Headmistress Kibingo Girls, noted that ‘’MDD competitions are helpful in schools because its under Ministry of Education and Sports and this helps them in developing their talents and skills since we are now moving to competent based curriculum. It also helps students to shade off stress thus helping them in their academics’’.
Mariam Twijukye, MDD teacher Bweranyangi Girls, thanked the lord for after winning the competitions noting that if it wasn’t for the Lord, they wouldn’t have celebrated.
She also added that the students also develop their talents through such competitions, ‘’The students are also developing their talents with the little time they have for studies and they do it with passion. Forexample the Drama narrative, the script was written by the girl that presented because she does performing arts and also most of the other kits they compose them themselves so I think with the rise of unemployment, our students wont lack to be employed because when they get to the next level, they are going to be song writers and trainers’’. End.
