SCHOOL HISTORY
Henry Gogarty Secondary School began on 06/01/2011. The Sisters of Our Lady of Kilimanjaro owns and manages the school. It is a Catholic School opened only to girls from all religious backgrounds all over the country and beyond. The school is named after the founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Kilimanjaro (Congregation Dominae Nostre De Kilimanjaro) (CDNK), His Excellency Rev.Rect Bishop Aloysius Henry Gogarty CSSp. The school stands as a symbol of gratitude to God for the CDNK Sisters to celebrate its 75th anniversary in 2009.
AIMS OF ESTABLISHING THE SCHOOL
The Spirit of the founder of the CDNK sisters congregation realized that education is fundamental for human development. It ignited the Sisters to establish this school to cherish his motive of preparing people to participate in the nation's spiritual, economic, social, and physical development. The CDNK Sisters established the school in his honor to provide excellent education and holistic formation to young girls from all socio-economic backgrounds. It will help them to live together and share their potential mental, spiritual, and cultural endowments. The school will respond to the needs of the society of girls to get more chances of enrolment in Secondary School and above in the academic cadre.
The school is built on the outskirts of Arusha Town. Where quality Education is given and young girls acquire practical skills. Our school was officially opened on 6th January 2011. Up to—date it has proved to be outstanding Educational Centre Being one of the new schools around the area, it has an approximate number of 450 students. The school has fascinating buildings surrounded by excellent environmental setting.
Further than that there are visions of establishing pleasant and attractive academic environment for studies. Turning to the other side of the coin, high academic standards is a top priority of our school. General performance is summarized in the following statistic.
There is a total of 23 teaching staff and 20 non- teaching staff who have greatly contributed to the above Academic success. This great performance is accompanied by highly motivated parents who enable the sc-hool administration to facilitate Educational activities such as visiting different laces like National Parks, Amboni Coves, Tanga Port, Hale power generation station .t.c. This has encouraged students to study and toil for the betterment of their future. Gradually, the school has an apple pie ordered environment that simplifies responsibilities for the students. Every student is assigned daily duties that must be done to ensure cleanliness of our school. Thanks to the supervision of our school government, the environment is maintained and kept tidy all the time. The school has various events carried out annually.
Events such as; Parents day, Talents day, Welcome form one, Canadian day, Harvesting day, Inter — class football league competition and so forth, all these considered together, help us to unite as a community. A part from that in our school are source of entertainment.
My name is Sr.Dr. Lucretia Kilire Njau, who specializes in Education Planning and Administration, I am the current headmistress of Henry Gogarty Secondary School. I am privileged to take this opportunity to introduce the Henry Gogarty Secondary School website.
I am glad you have focused on searching out and learning about our school (HGSS). There is no hesitation that you will search for more information about us.The school is a flourishing garden where young people are nurtured and guided to discover themselves and their potential. The school administration knows that information on this Website will enhance our school's connection to the world. As we are aware, the world has become a global village. It is from such a background that a web-site was created to reach out to many friends far and near. “Welcome to Henry Gogarty Secondary School”
Sr. Njau-School Headmistress
Sr. Irmina deputizes the head of the school on matters concerning school adminstration. Apart from admnistrative work, Sr. also teaches.
He is very hardworking and the brain behind the academic performance for the school. Mr. Mwakalimo holds Bacholor Of Science in Education. A part from academic work in office, Mr. Mwakalimo teaches Mathematics and Physics subjects.