ABOUT US
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Contact No. +260 215 224787 / +260 977 757672
Religious Activities
Being a Catholic run school, Stephen Luwisha Girls Secondary School has Catholic ethos and these include;
Morning devotion for all pupils every school day.
Celebration of the holy Mass.
Conduction of recollections for pupils and teachers. For pupils once a year and for teachers once a term.
Class Pattern
The school has four streams for each junior secondary grade and three for each senior grade.
The classes are named A, B, C and D for the Juniors and A, B and S for seniors, whereas the S classes take the Natural Science career Pathway.
Vision
To create an environment that which is conducive to raise an acceptably qualified, innovative, self-driven, morally upright, trustworthy, patriotic and God fearing girl child capable of taking up leadership roles and serving Zambia adequately, at the same time serving as a role model to other children, boys inclusive.
Mission Statement
We provide holistic education to Zambian children, particularly the girls so that they excel academically and manifest moral uprightness. We see it necessary to help develop a healthy individuality in those we teach and impart a sense of the presence and providence of God, thereby inculcating in them their dignity.
Goals
- To mold a morally upright girl child who is able to fit in society well.
- To teach a girl child effectively in order to excel in the academic world in all fields.
- To expose the girl child to extra-curricular activities so as to nurture her talents to the fullest.
- To equip the girl child with model leadership skills in readiness for her future role as a leader.
- To raise a God fearing girl child who is able to be of service to others.
- To build self-esteem in the girl child in order to actualize her full potential.
- To produce a patriotic girl child capable of serving mother Zambia diligently, selflessly and responsibly.
School Background
The School was founded and opened by the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of the Roman Catholic Church in 1929. This was one of the first schools in the region as such it supplied pupils to Kasisi School for higher grades. At its inception, the school was called St. Mary’s boarding School for Girls.
In 1968 the Dominican Sisters handed over the running of the School to the Congregation of the Handmaid Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary another congregation of the Catholic Church.
In 1985, the Government of the Republic of Zambia took over the running of some of the Mission Schools, including St. Mary’s Girls’ Primary School, turned into a co-education day School. The takeover led to the changing of the name of the school to Stephen Luwisha Middle Basic School, in commemoration of the late Reverend Father Stephen Luwisha, one of the first Zambian Catholic priests in the Archdioceses of Lusaka. At that time the School was running from grade one to grade seven.
In 2000 the Government of the Republic of Zambia handed back the running of former Mission run Institutions to the Missionaries, as such the Handmaid Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary once again took over the running of the School, which had just been upgraded into an upper basic school, running from grade one to grade nine. During the same year of taking over the running of the School, the Handmaid Sisters started to phase out the primary section of the School, starting with grade ones, with a view to upgrade the School into a secondary school for Girls to carter for secondary school needs of the girl child in the catchment area, which had no secondary school at all at that time.
In the year 2005, having had completed the phasing out of the primary section the School attained the status of a Secondary School for Girls.