Who We Are
Founded in 2008 from humble beginnings, Eden Schools is a unique academic institution dedicated to transforming the narrative of education through promoting, adopting, and providing context-specific quality educational services with an emphasis on innovation and creativity to prepare pupils and students to serve the world best given the constantly changing global dynamics regarding economies, health, technology, human rights, climate, education, and social interactions.
Over the years, Eden Schools has grown from having Eden Nursery and Primary School to Eden Junior Nursery and Primary School, Eden Joy Nursery and Primary School, and Global Eden Secondary School all mixed Day and Boarding schools privately initiated but meant to operate under the guidelines of the Ministry of Education and Sports to increase access to quality education for people locally, regionally, and internationally.
Eden Nursery and Primary School is a mixed Day and Boarding school privately was initiated in 2008 after research to determine the cause of poor academic performance in PLE in Koboko District was carried out by the Director. These findings led to putting in place factors that could improve performance and the subsequent establishment of the school in 2008 by Mr. Dimba David Kenyi with wide and enriched teaching and leadership experience. The school is barely sixteen (16) years old and popularly known for its academic performance right from its inception to date. It has a clean track record of academic performance and this was the purpose for which the school was initiated. It will continue to have steady healthy competition with other institutions both within and outside West Nile. At Eden, we encourage character development in our children through God-fearing, self-discipline, integrity, hard work, smartness, and time management. The school is an inter-denominational religious school where faith is addressed and God-fearing culture is impacted in the children.
Based on the school vision, the school has developed into four branches, including three nursery and primary schools and one secondary school namely; Eden Nursery and Primary School, Eden Junior Nursery and Primary School, and Eden Joy Nursery and Primary School and Global Eden Secondary School.
Vision
A leading provider of quality Nursery, Primary and Secondary education in the region.
Mission
To produce children who are able to meet the challenges of the time with courage and confidence through a child-centered approach.
Motto
Prepared for Success.
Core Values
- God fearing
- Discipline
- Integrity
- Hard work
- Smartness
- Time management
Objectives
- To produce God-fearing children.
- To recruit competent, committed, hardworking teachers and non-teaching staff with high moral integrity for the provision of quality education.
- To support orphans and vulnerable children by providing free education for seven years.
- To expand the school to a tertiary learning institution in the same name.
- To empower the school staff and proprietors intellectually through upgrading and economically through sharing profits/terminal benefits for long-serving staff.
- To nurture learners towards excellent performance in community and national service through active participation in the learning processes.
- To instill good morals in the learners by promoting of spirit of sharing and collaboration.
- To enhance the development of skills, innovations, and networking through a child-centered approach.
- To engage parents and Stakeholders in taking up responsibilities towards grooming the child and involvement in school development plans.
- To reward best performers through school-based scholarships and bursaries. Terms and conditions apply. Achievements of these expectations lie in the hands of disciplined pupils, dedicated teachers and a focused community including stakeholders.
Co-curricular activities
To develop and identify the pupil’s talents, Eden Nursery and Primary School interest the children in different co-curricular activities available at the school. Our children participate in several activities:
- Music Dance and Drama (MDD). Our children participate and learn singing and dancing, especially in traditional dances this is to inculcate the local culture in the pupils. The MDD group entertains parents during the school open day/graduation and even during the public celebrations in the municipality by singing and dancing.
- Debates. Children participate in debates on topics of interest especially on things surrounding the environment they live in, education, social issues, and so on. These debates are done weekly. The objective is to instill public speaking skills to the children, make them discover the problems surrounding them and participate in solving them and bringing up young leaders. The children have their leaders in charge of organizing these debates.
- Radio talk show. Spirit FM radio Koboko has free airtime on Sundays for children, and Eden Schools has dominated those shows. Our children shared a lot of pressing issues affecting them has children to their young colleagues, parents, and education stakeholders in the municipality. Eden participates every month. The children discuss HIV/AIDS, encouraging their fellow children to take education seriously, work hard, and have discipline with both parents at school.
- Games and Games. Eden Schools participates in all municipal organized games and sports competitions like football/netball and athletics. Our children do very well in these competitions. We request parents to encourage their children to take part in sports because it develops them physically and it would also be a career for some of them.
Our significant Achievements
Our First school; Eden Nursery and Primary was licensed in 2009 by the Ministry of Education Sports and Technology and registered by the same ministry in 2009, and in 2011 the school got a Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) Centre Number.
The school staff population has tremendously increased to 59 to serve the expected increasing enrollment of children well. The school’s Pride is on the population of young staff who are committed, self-motivated, and result-oriented leading to the best result that the school has got both in academics and co-curricular activities.
The school has now met all the Basic Minimum Standard Requirements for example 20 permanent classrooms, 4 permanent dormitory blocks for both boys and girls respectively, two boreholes, one piped water, a kitchen, solar energy installation, WENRECO power source, double deckers, fire extinguishers, and lightning arrester system.
Children are fed on quality food stuff mainly ordinary posho and beans and some balanced diet weekly.
Areas of support
An African says “The growth of a child is the responsibility of the whole community”. Eden Schools is building up the future of this country by bringing up responsible children, this is not an easy task that calls for collaborative efforts. Please your kind support for this cause is welcome. You can support us in the following areas:
- Visiting the school on school-days, visitation days, and any working day.
- Through prayers.
- Sponsoring the needy and orphaned children who cannot afford school fees.
- Attending parent’s meeting
- Contributing textbooks to the library.
- Sponsoring sports day, MDD club, and debating club.
- Take time to come to the school to find out about your child’s performance and other related areas.