Lukulu District Commissioner, Kelly Kapaku has urged the community to welcome and embrace the new school curriculum.

Mr Kapaku says the new curriculum is going to prepare pupils adequately into more productive citizens in the society.

Mr Kapaku was speaking during a stakeholders sensitisation meeting organised by the District Education Board Secretary office on the new school curriculum which is to be implemented this year.

“To the new generation this feels bad but I assure you this will be good for the district to get back to its good grades as it is where education in the province started from,” he said.

The District Commissioner has since pledged his office’s assistance to the line Ministry and also called for concerted efforts to ensure successful implementation of the curriculum in the first year.

District Education Board Secretary, Terry Chiwaya explained the new changes expected such as language to be used in teaching as English but teachers will be allowed to switch into mother tongue.

Mr Chiwaya further said that there will be three career pathways which will be subjected to the pupils.

“For grade six, if one fails has to repeat until they qualify to form one, this is in order to ensure that pupils who proceed to the next level have fully learnt,” he said.

Mr Chiwaya however, expressed concern that the district has a lot of work to do as 13 basic schools have been abolished.

He also added that the district has few specialised teachers to meet the new changes but his office through the Ministry of Education was working around the clock to ease the transition.

“We are also currently training all teachers of the affected grades to make this transition easy both for the learners, teachers and the community,” Mr Chiwaya said.