Letter to Parents/Guardians

My Dear Parents/Guardians,

Greetings from the College.

5. 2015 COLLEGE FEAST: The management remains eternally grateful to God for the successful 2015 College Feast. The college equally appreciates all our parents and great friends for their continued maximum support during the feast. We pray God to continue to bless and keep you all. Our regret was the poor turnout of parents before the mass for the feast.  Note that it is only proper for us to be very punctual to activities in the college. The practice of some parents just coming later in the day only to see their wards and go is absolutely wrong and unacceptable.
5. STUDENTS’ ID CARD: We now have our college customized student’s Identity Card. It is the property of the school as well as your child or ward. I request parents to ensure proper use and safety of the identity cards especially during holidays and mid term breaks. While leaving or coming back to the college, every student ought to have his identity card.
5. CATHEDRATICUM: The College participates very actively in the mystery of Easter celebrations. We are therefore taking part in the HOLY THURSDAY CHRISM MASS. Every student contributes for the cathedraticum, during which we join the rest of other Christ’s faithful in the diocese in showing solidarity to the bishop.
5. OPEN DAY:  Our Open Day in Third Term is scheduled to take place on June 13^th 2015, being the second Saturday in June. It is a day set apart by the school for parents to come around the college and conduct thorough check on their children or wards especially with respect to academic performances, and then meet with the proper Form Teachers for remarks and observations therefrom. Sadly enough, some parents do not come at all and later blame the management for poor academic performances of their wards.  Some, who come at all, end up chatting with their wards and leave without asking questions about their academic records. Some parents still come later in the evening just to see their wards and go thinking its just purely another visiting day, leaving the management to perform miracles. These practices are absolutely very wrong as educational training and formation of the child is a joint venture between the school management and the child’s family. Kindly take note of the date. Please do not come with anything: food, drinks, and fruits. It is just you and your child or ward.
6. VISITING DAYS: The College has every second Sundays of the month as the Visiting Days. This practice has continued for some time now. But this time around, as I announced during the PTA meeting held on 15^th March 2015, we are discontinuing from this practice. We believe that when you bring your child back to the college and having provided him with what he needs for the term, you leave the child to settle down for the business of the term. We want to reduce parents’ stress on the road and the distractions inherent in the visit though we are not oblivious of the fact of emotional attachment and bonding that bind us together as families especially in our African traditional set up.  Families have entrusted the educational formation, training and safety of their wards to us believing that the church is competent enough to take care of their children or wards. Surely, where there is need for us to reach the families of our students especially on emergency cases or issues bothering on the welfare of the students, we certainly shall contact the family. We are all partners in progress. Note that we shall still observe our mid term breaks within the terms as dimmed fit by the management. But till then, we shall now inform you from Third Term, when the visiting day shall take place in the college.

5. COLLEGE MID TERM/HOLIDAY DELIGHT: Just last mid term break in second term of the academic year, we introduced the practice of mid term/holiday delight. It is the students’ assignments in all the subjects, carefully typed, arranged and given to them each in a college customized envelope. We call it delight because we want our students to take pleasure accruing from developing the culture and habit of reading. We want to create in their psyche, the interest or desire to read, and that reading and studies can really become pleasurable. On coming back for mid term or holiday, kindly request your child or ward to present to you his Holiday Delight envelope and ensure that he does these assignments. Even when he is done with the assignments, he still needs to continue with his studies. Let us work together for better learning outcomes.

5. EDUCATIONAL EXCURSION: During the last PTA meeting, 15^th March 2015, I provided the parents with situation report on the subject matter. We were not able to travel yet as earlier promised and arranged by the VERITAS TRAVELS of the catholic secretariat of Nigeria, because the number of registered candidates were not up to twenty five as requested by them. They resorted to contacting other schools to complete the number. We are informed to remind interested parents that they still have the opportunity to register their children or wards. They will travel as soon as we have the required number. The management is committed to presenting to our students, opportunities that offer early exposure for students to maximize their potentials with its attendant benefits in life. Why not utilize the opportunity.  Investing today in your child’s tomorrow is a wise thing to do which yields abundant fruits in life.

5. STUDENTS’ OUTING WEAR:  We are happy to observe the success recorded so far in the production of the students’ outing wear. So far, we have taken delivery of three hundred pieces of the outing wear. The samples were presented to you during the PTA meeting held 25^th March, 2015. This outing wear has become part of our school uniform which shall be used by all students when going for mid term break/holiday and coming back to school on reopening days. It shall be our students’ outing dress code for all forms of competitions and extracurricular activities. Cooperate with us as we decorate our students.

5. CUPON: We would have had no course to discuss this topic again if not the problem of non compliance by some parents to earlier directives given by the management as contained in my news letter to you last December,2014. When we wanted to commence the use of cupon after internal arrangements was made, the management was a bit disappointed, learning from the bursary that over three hundred students either have no money in their deposit or do not have account with the school bursary. This actually tried to frustrate our effort. As announced during the last PTA meeting {15^th March, 2015} by the Administrative Dean, we adjusted again to begin full operation in Third Term this academic year. For administrative convenience, we would want our parents to pay in the deposit along with the school fees. Help us to regulate your child’s spending as this practice helps him to spend money responsibly on his immediate needs as students.

5. STAFF WELFARE/REMUNERATION: The management has considered staff remuneration as a very critical and significant project that needs immediate attention of both the school and the parents of our students. We are very sensitive and ever committed to the welfare of our tutorial and non tutorial staff. We need to pay them well for more and greater commitments in their works especially the teachers. We have had cases of the cooks whom we employed and at the end of the month, they take the initial salary and go, leaving us almost stranded with no other option than to start making emergency alternative arrangements. The management wishes that something be done and very urgently. This is why a passionate appeal is being made to parents to show understanding as we might be required to make little sacrifices for our teachers, cooks and other staff. I trust and count on your judgment and understanding.

5. PROPOSED FATHER’S RECTORY AND COLLEGE CHAPEL:  Wow, this is so nice. This is awesome. This is just beautiful. Their taste is too much; they should come down a bit to make it possible. They are only dreaming. Where will they get the money from? These and many more were some of the reactions of our parents and guests during the last PTA meeting, March 15^th 2015, when the proposed plan for the Father’s rectory and chapel were presented to us. Your reactions were natural and human too, but let us look beyond the reactions and the cost implications of the projects under consideration
5.  and then focus on the spiritual values and benefits inherent in carrying out these projects, beginning with the Father’s rectory. Rather than taxing ourselves, the management believes that God can use our parents to do the magic. I therefore appeal to families and individuals to approach us with declaration of their interest to help the college either singly or collectively. One can donate bags of cement. You can take up foundation level, another can pick up the first decking, someone can take up the second decking, anyone else can roof the building, and your family can sponsor the painting while you can furnish the interior. Then, the bishop blesses the house for use. We plan by God’s grace, to start and finish the project within the shortest possible record time of six months. Together, we can build for the Lord. God bless you as you think about this and make sacrifices too for a richer harvest.

5. SECOND TERM EXAMINATION: Consistent with our schedule in our calendar for the term, we were supposed to begin the second term exams on 18^th – 27^th March 2015 and vacate for Easter holiday on April 1^st, 2015. However, due to the adjustment in the election schedule, our academic programmes were adjusted upward to make sure our students are in the care of their parents during the elections. We therefore conducted our exams from 9^th -20^th March, 2015.  
5. LENTEN/EASTER RETREAT: The students’ Lenten/Easter retreat took place from 22^nd -25^th March 2015, and was moderated by Rev Fr Melkizedeck Obi. Our confessors were around to hear their confessions. Thus, we have prepared our students spiritually for Easter celebrations and plead with parents to ensure that they participate actively during the HOLY WEEK ceremonies in their various parishes ahome. We pray God that the fruits of the retreat and Holy Week ceremonies may bear abundant fruits in the lives of our students, Amen
5.  VACATION AND REOPENING: The College vacates for Easter holiday on 25^th March, 2015 and reopens officially for Third Term on 1^st May, 2015.
5. THIRD TERM IN VIEW:  Beside our normal academic activities, we have these packages for Third Term: Seminar/Workshop for the tutorial staff, Science Week, Inter house Sports competition etc.
6. PAYMENTS: Below is the summary of fees, dues or levies for Third Term 2014/15 Academic Year:

* School fee is still   40,000

* Provision/ Boarding consumables 10,000

* Development levy 5000

* Clinic levy 2000

* Tutorial and non tutorial staff welfare/remuneration 3000

* Deposit/pocket money 5000{this shall be deducted and credited to your ward’s deposit account in the school}

        Grand total------ N65,000.00

 NOTE:  ALL PAYMENTS SHOULD BE MADE WITH THE PROPER STUDENT’S NAME TO THE COLLEGE ACCOUNT AS STATED BELOW:

Bank Name: Zenith Bank Plc

Account Name: Tansi International College, Awka.

Account No: 1010844792

Or

Bank Name: Union Bank Plc.

Account Name: Tansi International College, Awka.

Account No: 0035545454

5. COURTESIES: The management wishes all her students and families, a JOYOUS EASTER CELEBRATIONS.

            HAPPY EASTER TO YOU ALL.

…………………………..,

Rev. Fr. Paul Onyebuchi II,

            (Principal)