DEPUTY HEADMASTER (PASTORAL)

When one enters the Academy gates in Form one, you read the sign at the gate “Welcome to Kamuzu Academy.” You pass through the ranks, juniors’ corridor, middles’, and then finally seniors’ corridor. After finishing Upper Six, you leave the Academy and you see another sign at the gate, “Thank you for visiting the Academy, have a safe journey”. But my question is “How much have you seen or experienced during the years between the two signs?

The Academy is about many things. The Founder’s charge is “Educate the whole man”. In trying to educate the whole man, the Academy is more than just dealing with class work. We demand that our students take part in the full curriculum we are offering.

The patriotism the students and staff show in house games or other inter-house competitions would make any political party die-hard burn with envy.

The silence you witness in the library makes one think there is no one, save for what the eye can see. Inter-schools sports have ever been part of the heart-beat of the school. The chapel, house dinners, the choir and orchestra, being a prefect or a monitor (the list is endless) all avail themselves to our students.

The aim is to have very refined young men and women as they leave the gate at the end of their stay. But how much of these hasone used during the seven yearstay? Do not be like someone on a cruise ship with everything paid for, but for some reason, (s)he starves him/herself thinking that the meals are not part of the deal. A lot is between the two signs. It is just a question of how much you appropriate. Thank you for visiting the Academy.

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