SECONDARY EDUCATION

Secondary education is the form of education children receive after primary education and before the tertiary stage. The broad aims of secondary education within our overall national objectives are:

• Preparation for useful living within the society.
• Preparation for higher education.

In specific term the secondary schools:

• Provide an increasing number of primary school pupils with the opportunity for education at higher quality, irrespective of sex, or social. Religious and ethnic background
• Diversify its curriculum to cater for the differences in talents, opportunities and roles possessed by or open to students after their secondary school course
• Equip students to live effectively in our modern age of science and technology.
• Develop and project Nigerian culture, art and languages as well as the world’s cultural heritage.
• Raise a generation of people who can think for themselves, respect the dignity of labour, and appreciate those values specified under our broad national aims, and lives as good citizens.
• Foster Nigerian unity with an emphasis on the common ties that unite us in our diversity.
• Inspire its students with a desire for achievement in self-improvement both at school and in her life.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Senior Schools

Senior schools generally admit from 10-18. Changing schools at 15 or 17 is not generally recommended because of the likely disruption to SSCE/WAEC, particularly if the move means a change to a different examination syllabus. Some schools will only accept pupils able to keep pace with a fast moving curriculum, there are many others which cater for children of more average ability and some which specialized in helping those in need of more individual attention in a less academic environment.

Schools with their own primary department may offer a straightforward transfer into the senior school but most demand successful completion of entrance test. Some schools, particularly day schools, set their own entrance test in English, Mathematics and general paper. Few use the Common Entrance Examination, which pupils may take at 11, 12 or 13.

Some senior schools also offer a range of scholarships for pupils demonstrating exceptional talent and potential in such areas academic study. Examinations are normally held in February, March and April for entry in September.
Senior Schools

The curriculum is structured as follows:

 

CORE SUBJECTS:

• Mathematics
• English language
• Metal work
• Nigerian language
• Science
• Social studies
• Art and music
• Practical agriculture business studies
• Instructions
• Physical education
• Pre-vocation subjects

Students who leave school at junior high school stage may then go on to an apprenticeship system or some scheme for out-of-school vocational training. The secondary school will be for those able and willing to have a complete six-years secondary education, it will be comprehensive but will have a core-curriculum designed to broaden pupils’ knowledge and outlook. The core-curriculum is the group of subjects, which every pupils musty take in addition to his or her specialties.

 

CORE SUBJECTS:

• English language
• Mathematics
• One Nigeria language

One of the following alternative subjects: literature in English, history, and geography. Agricultural science or vocational subjects. The core subjects are basic subjects, which will enable a student to offer arts or science in higher education.

ELECTIVES:
Every student will be expected to select 3 of those subjects depending on the choice of career up to the end of second year and may drop one of the non-compulsory subjects out of the 9 in the last year of senior school course.

• Biology Physics
• Chemistry Additional Mathematics
• Technical drawing Wood work
• Auto-mechanics Music
• Art French
• Physical education Agricultural science
• Home economics Book-keeping
• Typewriting Literature in English
• Geography Bible knowledge
• Islamic studies Arabic studies
• Metal work Electronic

SENIOR SCHOOLS
Pupils are graded for achievement in every subject throughout the term and regular assessments made. More formal examination is normally taken two or three times a year. In addition, many schools have a tutorial system with a House tutor assigned to each pupil to monitor educational, social and personal development. The pupil and tutor meet regularly to discuss progress and reports from teachers and to identify any areas where help is required, particularly important at sixth form level. Full subject reports are written at the end of each term, sent to parents.