Newly appointed Principal of Huon Gulf’s Salamaua High School in Morobe, Norman Apul told Lae media that the High School has taken radical steps to bring normalcy back to the school, especially with the school facility, curriculum and teaching and learning.
Mr Apul said under his leadership, they are prioritizing the welfare of the teachers and students and teamwork is paramount to achieve the school’s aim of academic excellence.
Salamaua Provincial High School is a boarding facility in Morobe with rundown dormitories, classrooms and teachers’ houses. Last year, the students burnt down two classrooms. The school currently has no electricity and lacks logistics support to travel to Lae and back for operational runs. Some male students are currently using their condemned ablution blocks as rooms.
The school also needs a health facility to access health services.
There was no support from the District over the past years.
The school has a population of almost 700 students and 22 teachers, including 15 who are currently on campus. Seven teachers are still in Lae due to no accommodation.
The school was established in 1995. It is located in Kela Village, Salamaua, South-West of Lae City. It is an hour’s travel from Lae by boat.
According to the School’s Principal, Mr. Apul, over the past six weeks, the school renovated and maintained a boys’ dormitory, few teachers’ houses and staff room.
He said they would continue to maintain the other dormitories for both the male and female students.
The school administration has also built new toilets for the staff and two duplex staff houses. They still need money to build new classrooms, dormitories and teachers houses in order to suit the standard of a level 7 High School with 1000 students.
Apul said Huon Gulf MP, Ross Seymour made commitments to maintain the run down school facility and to rebuild the two dormitories that were burnt down.
Seymour also pledged support to pay for the students’ parental component fees.
Meanwhile, the School’s Principal, Mr Apul with the support of his Deputy, Joseph Kupesan called on the District, Morobe Provincial Government, parents and the Education Division to support the school with financial support in order to build more facilities so they can reach their aim in getting a secondary school status by 2024.
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