Junior Secondary Must Be Named Senior Primary For Effective CBC Implementation, Oyuu
The kenya national union of teachers, KNUT, is pushing for a review of the junior secondary level of the Competency Based Curriculum.
KNUT is scheduled to make its presentation to the CBC government task force next week. The teachers union also wants increased financing of the curriculum.
Knut secretary general Collins Oyuu has revealed that their presentation is based on a research project conducted in 2019.
“We have conducted two types of research that will help us make our presentations, one in 2019 and the other in 2022,” Oyuu said.
The research calling for a review of junior secondary is based on domiciling of the said learners at Grade 7, 8 and Grade 9.
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According to KNUT’s proposal, junior secondary should be called senior primary, which will later transition to middle school or otherwise intermediary school.
According to Knut Corporate officer Mark Oseno, the reason for this recommendation is the fact that there are more primary schools compared to secondary schools.
“We have almost 6,000 secondary schools and 24,000 primary school so even if you give one classroom to every secondary school then they can’t match,” Oseno said.
The corporate officer said infrastructure is the main concern for this proposed shift to intermediate school.
He said the government could utilise infrastructure available in primary schools in the meantime.
“In the completeness of this proposal we have a school called middle school which was previously intermediate so that they are not attached to primary or secondary,” he added.
Grade 7 learners study 12 core subjects and seven optional subjects.
From the seven subjects they have to pick a minimum of one and maximum of two.
The optional subjects are visual arts, performing arts, home science, computer science, foreign languages, Kenyan sign language and indigenous languages.
The core subjects are English, Kiswahili, mathematics, integrated science, health education, pre-technical and precareer education, social studies.
Others are religious education, business studies, agriculture , life skills and sports and physical education.
Summative assessment at the end of Grade 6 will be administered in five subjects, not 13 as earlier reports indicated.
The subjects have been clustered into five groups: English, Mathematics, Integrated Science, Creative Arts and Kiswahili.
Integrated Science contains Science and Technology, Agriculture, Home Science and Physical Health.
Creative Arts and Social Studies includes Social studies, Christian, Islamic and Hindu education, arts and crafts and music.
Summative assessments contribute 60 per cent while the two school-based assessments contribute 20 per cent each.
The Kenya Primary School Education Assessment will be administered from November 28.
A sample of answer sheets for the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment seen by the Star shows there are multiple choices.
Students are expected to fill in the school code number, assessment number, candidate name and school.
From four multiple choices, they are instructed to cross one of the options to indicate the answer.
The pioneer cohort of CBC, currently in Grade 6, is expected to join junior secondary next year.
According to the ministry, 2.57 million students will be enrolled for Grade 7 and Form 1 during the double intake in January.
