School Projets:

1) Bus - 68 Seater Scania UAK 490A was bought. The old one UPN 116 was sold for
Ush.11million, although it had been valued at Ush.10million.

2) Library - Contracted to M/S Honest Contractors. Progress is encouraging though
scarcity of steel, power fluctuation and additional works delayed the completion. Overall 80% of the work is done and its ready for handover.

3) School Farm - There are efforts to revive the farm at both the school and at the crop unit.

4) Kitchen – The kitchen, stores, stoves and entire area is being improved on.

5) Parents House Committees:
Have continued to work on dormitories. Nigeria House has had a new coat of paint
donated by Mrs. Amelia Kyambadde, one escape door by Dr. Mudhuli.
Ghana, Canada, Mutesa, S.Africa, Sabaganzi, Grace, England have had successful
meetings and projects.

THE SCHOOL LIBRARY HIGHLIGHTS
Budo celebrated 90 years of existence in March 1996, and a foundation stone for a building now known as ‘The New Library’ was laid then. The building would be a double storied one and would house a state of the art library for King’s College Budo. The foundation was laid, the basement and ground floor built, and then so many things happened after.
Budo’s population exploded with the millennium, from about seven hundred students to over one thousand. The classes and dormitories became too small for the population.
“A-level students in particular suffered,” Mr. Semivule the Headmaster of Kings College Budo then said, “because facilities were designed for less than one hundred students and yet the population has grown to over three hundred. We also discovered that the foundation of the building was firm and well-laid and could accommodate well over two floors.” So the technical personnel were called in and the building redesigned. “It will be a five storey building,” Mr. Semivule explained on the new design, “ The basement shall be a store and the ground floor shall house specialised classes like Home Management, Clothing and Textiles and Technical drawing for O-level. The first floor shall be a modern computer laboratory with four laboratories.

“Two of them shall have seventy computers each,” the Headmaster elaborated, “while one of them shall have over one hundred laptop computers.”
The Headmaster said that the fourth computer lab shall be a resource centre for teachers to do their work. “But I am sure that soon the fourth lab shall be for students, because with the LAN and intranet that Shell Uganda and MTN Uganda donated to Budo, teachers shall still be able to access the network form the comfort of their homes,” the Headmaster added saying that there would then be no need for teachers to come to a central point to access the network.
The former Headmaster Mr. Semivule boosted that Budo has a network better than most of the local Universities, and that Makerere University could be the only competitor.
“Gone are the days when teachers have to carry piles of reports to my office for report signing,” he adds, “I can access any student’s report at my P.C in the office, make my remarks, and then the teacher will just have to print it out elsewhere! I can even access it in my house!”
The second and third floors will house the junior and senior Libraries, which would also have some parts of them computerised. The top floor will then house specialised A-level classes. “We are going to change the teaching format for HSC and make it like that of the University,” the former Headmaster explained, adding that students shall have the teacher in their classes, instead of the teacher finding the students in class. “This means we shall have specialised classes, especially for arts subjects like Economics class, History class, Literature class, etc,” he added.

All floors on the building shall have some offices on them, like the Director of Studies’ office on the top floor, the Career master’s office on the first floor. The building shall also have a lift, although the lift shall be constructed much later, as funds for that are unavailable right now. This building will be complete in 20 weeks starting January 2008. So where are the funds coming from? “All these changes in plans, coupled by other factors like the England house incident delayed the completion of the building,” the Headmaster said. “We are very thankful to all donors, but more especially the Budonians who took charge of completion and furnishing of part of the first floor, which now houses two computer laboratories. We took a loan from the bank from which we hope to complete the structure in 20 weeks which started in January 2008.”

The furnishing of the building shall however still remain a challenge to the school and so any willing donors are called upon to liaise with the school to see how you could come in. Laptops, P.Cs, Furniture, textbooks are all welcome. All donations shall be labelled with the donor’s name, and that’s about all the school can do to show their gratitude to gifts. So what do you have for Budo?