Basic Education Principal Secretary (PS) Dr. Belio Kipsang says the government will construct 16,000 classrooms nationwide to transition learners to grade nine in 2025.
Speaking in a speech read on his behalf by the Director of Projects Coordination and Delivery for Projects, Elijah Mungai, at Olympics Primary School in Nairobi, Kipsang said the government plans to construct ten additional classrooms to cater for the learners who will transit to grade nine next year.
The Vice President for Human Development at the World Bank, Mamta Murthi visited the school.
“We welcome the World Bank to support and partner with the government to build even more classrooms in this school,” Kipsang said.
Murthi hailed Kenya for the strong education outcomes of the children schooling.
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She said Kenya the schooling system in Kenya was ably imparting in learners the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values that students ought to acquire.
Further, she said Kenya was also doing well in terms of the enrolment rate of children in schools, noting that education was a critical factor in determining a country's future.
On his part, the Deputy County Commissioner, Odidi Otieno, said the government worked through its structures to ensure a 100 percent transition of learners from Primary to secondary education.
Olympics Primary School Headteacher, Mr. Cyrus Okumu, said that the school had developed a friendly learning environment and an excellent instructional system for learners.
He attributed the huge learner population 5108 to a supportive teaching and non-teaching staff that made learning enjoyable.
“Children keep coming back to school because of the good learning experiences good pedagogy creates,” Okumu said.
