History Department
History is one of the core subjects at Kings College Budo offered by all o-level students with an aim of enlightening them with the history of various societies and how these societies struggled to exist in the era of the Scramble and Partition of Africa. European History is taught to enable students appreciate the changes in European countries and how these affected events in other parts of the World.
In S.1, the history of Budo is taught to instil in the students the spirit of Budo and history being the mother of subjects remains part and parcel of the student’s life “All great people have a history” therefore you can not achieve it all before you know where you started.
At O-level, there are two papers; Paper one 241/1 ( East Africa). It covers the history of east Africa from the origin of trade at the coast and the attainment of independence by East African states.
Paper two 241/2 covers the History of West Africa from the Trans-Saharan trade to Independence. At A-level, we have two papers; paper 210/3 (European History 1789 – 1970) covering the History of Europe and paper 210/6 (African History 1855 – 1914), this covers the History of Africa and growth of societies to 1914 period before the use of African nationalism.
All classes at O-level offer history one and two. Our heritage is the introductory bit of history as a department; we teach the sources of history and use them to find the history of Budo since 1906 – highlighting aims of the founders, their challenges and contributions of all the founders of Budo. The research done so far is related to topics covered in class which is geared at stimulating student learning and mastery of the content through group work. S.1s are expected to find out the history of their houses in order for them to develop house spirit.
The department has accumulated a number of teaching aids from students’ activities and projects and is currently advocating for a departmental room where such project work can be displayed in addition to setting up a history library where reference books can be accessed more easily by students.
Our department just like all the others is experiencing big numbers and this makes marking a challenge. There are more boys in O-level classes and at A-level, there has been more girls than boys offering the subject. What causes the difference is specifically due to boys’ attitude towards arts , they want to do sciences though this year’s senior six have 40 boys and 19 girls and this has never happened before.
The department has 6 members:
Mr. Ensam Kanyerezi HIST/LUG S.1 & S.6 currently
Ms. Eva Nattabi HIST S.2 – 6 currently HOD
Mr. Jones Nuwagaba HIST S.1 – 5 currently
Mr. Joseph Kibuuka HIST / ECON S.4 currently
Mrs. Robinah Wassajja HIST / GEOG S.2 – 4 currently
Rev. Benon KIsitu CRE / HIST S.1 – 3 currently
The department has a qualified, dedicated and hardworking staff. A cupboard where reference books are kept and are put to use accordingly. The challenges faced are the increasing numbers and a few reference books compared to the numbers.
A-level students have lost the culture of hard work and individual research.
Some of the students in the writers’ club are offering History at A-level, they write essays linked to history and have helped in compiling students’ magazines.
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