The National exams for Grade 10 and Grade 12 are set for October this year. Grade 10 students will do exams in two weeks for all the subjects they study. As usual, preparations are underway. Grade 12 students will do their exams in a week. Students are encouraged to work hard to make their life's decision when the sit for the exams. The consequences of the introduction of the OBE have put more pressure on the teaching staff to prepare for the exams. We wish them good luck to the grade 10 and 12 students and the teaching staff who are working hard for the them.. Marianville Secondary School is going through massive construction boom. Thanks to AusAid funding, new classrooms and staff houses have been constructed. The school is expected to increase enrollment of students next year. The it is anticipated that number of teachers in the school is likely to increase as well. The following photos show some of the new houses and those that are under construction.
Students have begun their term two holidays starting this Friday. Students were seen loading onto the school buses. Students will stay home for the next two weeks. Meanwhile teachers will go into their school based in-service starting next Monday. Teachers are expected to complete the services by Friday next week and they will have their recess the following week. Voting for the national elections are expected to be conducted at the school ground. The school community and the surround communities are expected to vote on Monday. Marianville Girls Secondary School in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea is the proud recipient of SEED funding for its internet connections. SEED stands for Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development. SEED is a volunteer-based, nonprofit education program focused on underserved communities where Schlumberger people live and work. SEED empowers employee-volunteers and educators—including teachers, parents and other mentors—to share their passion for learning and science with students aged 10-18. The SEED learning-while-doing (LWD) methodology draws on the technology and science expertise of their volunteers to engage students in global issues, such as water, energy and climate change. The school has received some SEED KITS from SEED and now the teachers and students are using these kits to carry out science experiments. Besides, it is first of its kind for a state run institution at the secondary level to have internet connections for the next two years. Thanks to SEED, the internet connections will be launched next month. The internet service will be provided to all students, teachers, support staff, surrounding communities and nearby schools. Interested individual or group can contact the school to have access to this vital service that SEED is providing. The paramount rationale of the program is not only to engage everyone to learn science and to realize the application aspects of it but to empower everyone to have access to current raw information for improving their teaching and learning skills. It will also enable everyone to embark on the current trend of science and technology and to keep them informed of the issues facing the world today like, trade and economy, science and technology, climate changed and the use of energy. It is the ultimate goal of this school to share this important service to everyone as it is encouraged by the terms and conditions of SEED. Therefore, everyone is invited to use the service at appropriate times when it becomes available. Marianville in the 1960’s. The Marianville High School was founded in 1966.Our secondary education for girls commenced at Badili in 1963 with 20 girls from St. Therese’s Badili and St. Michael’s Hanuabada. However, these girls never reached a higher grade than Form2, because the facilities were not adequate .From 1963 until 1966 Sr. Katrina (Sr. Elaine Cochrane) and 2 lay missionaries, Carmel Cudmore and Agnes Gibson, continued to teach at St. Therese’s Badili. Marianville came to reality through the vision of Sr. Catherine O’Sullivan (Mother Flavia) in 1966.Her dream was to make available quality education and to that end she organized the funding and execution of its first 4 block. In 1966, Sr. Katrina was the Head Mistress (HM), Violet Love the Head prefect (HP) only 70 students enrolled and Block1 was completed in May and Block2 was built. In 1967, Sr. Augustine was the HM and Violet Love the HP, this time had 120 students enrolled and Blocks 3&4 were built. From 1968-1970 Sr. Joan Walker was the HM and Eunan Ani & Norris Fletcher served as the HP respectively. During this time, the first teacher’s house was completed, the mango & coconut plantations put in and the badge was designed. 1970’s. In 1970, Sr. Joan Walker was the HM. Patricia Maikai was the HP leading 210 students and bathrooms were put in Block5. In 1971-1978 Sr. Ellen Egan was the HM, Shirley Kassman, Marie English, Emily Gabriel, Clementine Oa, Kei Pou, Janet Sevese, Florence Beni and Mary Joku were the HPs respectively. During this era, the construction of the Sci. labs, the first convent, the second teacher’s house with the dining hall & laundry took place. Also we had the bottle-a-thon fundraising & the Marianville choir took part in the Independence celebrations. In 1979, Sr. Elaine Cochrane took over as HM with Wendy Karo as HP. This year saw the kitchen being built & the first school magazine published. 1980’s. The 1980’s brought a lot of change with the enrolment of students increasing. From 1980-1985, Sr.Elaine Cochrane was the HM with Katrina Solien, Mary Bray, Thelma Taligatus, Lydia Elliot, Karen Fabila & Vade Vade Maino as the HPs of the school respectively. During this time, 7 teachers’ houses were already built. Block 6 was built-this included the admin, chapel and library. Marianville had the privilege to meet the Pope. From 1986-1989, Sr. Elizabeth Taylor became the new HM with Nancy Betson, Patricia Kassman, Rose M Modewa &, Caroline Korus as the HPs. From 1966-1986, Marianville had only female staff not until, Thomas Tupia came along in 1987 to be the first male on the staff. During this period, 66 students went to an Expo in Brisbane also the Home-Ec Block was built by the Rotarians and a fence was put up around the school.. 2000 Established 10 years before independence and has existed for another 30 years after independence and is still existing. As an educational institution,it has produced many important and elite leaders,who were the prominent mothers of this nation.Some have passed away,others are still active in holding public offices. Download our brief history with photos below
Through its ongoing contribution to the school, Schlumberger through its SEED program has donated Digicel modems to Marianville Girls' Secondary School in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. The Digicel modems were donated by David Sale, the Schlumberger Business Coordinator in Papua New Guinea on behalf of SEED. While donating the modems, David thank the school for its interest to use SEED equipments to equip and educate students and staff. The donation of the modems is a temperory arrangement to provide internet services to the school. SEED will fund an internet broad band service in the near future. While recieving the modems Mrs. Helen Margis thanked Schlumberger for bringing SEED programs to the school. For some we have heard about internet but never used it. Now is the time the school will access internet and it will be provided to both students and staff. We are proud to have such service and we look forward to go online and explore the world. 'It brings the world close to us and we are so excited'. . SEED representative, David Sale speaking to the school principal and teachers On behalf of the students, Grade 11 student Anita Alu said that " we are very excited to use internet at our school computer lab" We are fortunate to have this service and now we cannot longer go to the library or ask our parents to do our assignments. We will get our information on the internet. We are also excited to chat and share information with students from SEED schools around the world" We are thankful to SEED for the modems" SEED representative, David Sale speaking to the school principal and teachers. Meanwhile, Schlumberger has also donated SEED kits for the Science Department. The kits are being used for science experiments including practicals lessions, science projects and tests. Representatives from SEED will talk to students and staff in the near future on different careers in the field of science MARIANVILLE Secondary School, outside Port Moresby, yesterday received more than K4.7 million for infrastructure development.
The school became the latest recipient of funds from the PNG-Australia Incentive Fund under AusAID. The money will be used to build classrooms to accommodate 90 students, a dormitory for 48 girls, extension to the dining hall and home economics facility, upgrading of water supply system and the administration facility and new staff houses. School principal Sr Angela Taylor thanked the Papua New Guinea and Australian governments for their support in building and strengthening the education of women in the country through the granting of funds. Speaking to students, AusAID counsellor governance Kath Taplin said this partnership was rewarding for girls and young women as it provided an opportunity for full participation in nation-building. “Educating women is important because educated women are less likely to be the victims of all kinds of violence,” she said. “I ask everyone to realise the significance of this support from AusAID and encourage women’s participation in developing the country.” The Fund this year committed K50 million to infrastructure initiatives, particularly education-related infrastructure. Incentive Fund management group chairman Dr Thomas Webster told the students the partnership was to enhance gender equality for development. “Gender equality is a challenge because PNG has a unique culture,” he said. “There is good and bad to it and in order to achieve gender equality we must overcome the bad,” he said. |
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