Holy Cross Comboni Primary School, Yirol

Happy St Daniel Comboni Day

New Academic Year's Registration, 2023!

This serves to inform all the parents/guardians and pupils that the registration for the new academic year starts next week on Monday 27th February 2023.
Kindly hurry up to book your place and register on time.
It is absolutely a short registration session and therefore our vacancies shall be very limited for the high demand.

The registration sessions will run as follow:
Mon 27th/02/2023: P1 - P2
Tue 28th/02/2023: P3 - P4
We'd 1st/03/2023: P5 - P6
Thur 2nd/03/2023: P7 - P8
Fri 3rd/03/2023: New pupils from different schools and some pupils that will come late.

School fee for this academic year is SSP.20,000 per pupil for the whole year.
All pupils must come along with their report cards.
Timing is from 7:00Am to 12:00Pm
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Happy Anniversary to St Josephine Bakhita Nursery school.

JOSEPHINE BAKHITA (1869-1947)

Mother Josephine Bakhita was born in Sudan in 1869 and died in Schio (Vicenza) in 1947.

This African flower, who knew the anguish of kidnapping and slavery, bloomed marvelously in Italy, in response to God's grace, with the Daughters of Charity.

Mother “Moretta”

In Schio (Vicenza), where she spent many years of her life, everyone still calls her “our Black Mother”. The process for the cause of Canonization began 12 years after her death and on December 1st, 1978 the Church proclaimed the Decree of the heroic practice ofall virtues.

Divine Providence which “cares for the flowers of the fields and the birds of the air”, guided the Sudanese slave through innumerable and unspeakable sufferings to human freedom and to the freedom of faith and finally to the consecration of her whole life to God for the coming of his Kingdom.

In Slavery

Bakhita was not the name she received from her parents at birth. The fright and the terrible experiences she went through made her forget the name she was given by her parents. Bakhita, which means “fortunate”, was the name given to her by her kidnappers.

Sold and resold in the markets of El Obeid and of Khartoum, she experienced the humiliations and sufferings of slavery, both physical and moral.

Towards freedom

In the Capital of Sudan, Bakhita was bought by an Italian Consul, Callisto Legnani . For the first time since the day she was kidnapped, she realized with pleasant surprise, that no one used the lash when giving her orders; instead, she was treated in a loving and cordial way. In the Consul's residence, Bakhita experienced peace, warmth and moments of joy, even though veiled by nostalgia for her own family, whom, perhaps, she had lost forever.

Political situations forced the Consul to leave for Italy. Bakhita asked and obtained permission to go with him and with a friend of his, a certain Mr. Augusto Michieli.

In Italy

On arrival in Genoa, Mr. Legnani, pressured by the request of Mr. Michieli's wife, consented to leave Bakhita with them. She followed the new “family”, which settled in Zianigo (near Mirano Veneto). When their daughter Mimmina was born, Bakhita became her babysitter and friend.

The acquisition and management of a big hotel in Suakin, on the Red Sea, forced Mrs. Michieli to move to Suakin to help her husband. Meanwhile, on the advice of their administrator, Illuminato Checchini, Mimmina and Bakhita were entrusted to the Canossian Sisters of the Institute of the Catechumens in Venice. It was there that Bakhita came to know about God whom “she had experienced in her heart without knowing who He was” ever since she was a child. “Seeing the sun, the moon and the stars, I said to myself: Who could be the Master of these beautiful things? And I felt a great desire to see him, to know Him and to pay Him homage...”

Daughter of God

After several months in the catechumenate, Bakhita received the sacraments of Christian initiation and was given the new name, Josephine. It was January 9, 1890. She did not know how to express her joy that day. Her big and expressive eyes sparkled, revealing deep emotions. From then on, she was often seen kissing the baptismal font and saying: “Here, I became a daughter of God!”

With each new day, she became more aware of who this God was, whom she now knew and loved, who had led her to Him through mysterious ways, holding her by the hand.

When Mrs. Michieli returned from Africa to take back her daughter and Bakhita, the latter, with unusual firmness and courage, expressed her desire to remain with the Canossian Sisters and to serve that God who had shown her so many proofs of His love.

The young African, who by then had come of age, enjoyed the freedom of choice which the Italian law ensured.

Daughter of St. Magdalene

Bakhita remained in the catechumenate where she experienced the call to be a religious, and to give herself to the Lord in the Institute of St. Magdalene of Canossa.

On December 8, 1896 Josephine Bakhita was consecrated forever to God whom she called with the sweet expression “the Master!”

For another 50 years, this humble Daughter of Charity, a true witness of the love of God, lived in the community in Schio, engaged in various services: cooking, sewing, embroidery and attending to the door.

When she was on duty at the door, she would gently lay her hands on the heads of the children who daily attended the Canossian schools and caress them. Her amiable voice, which had the inflection and rhythm of the music of her country, was pleasing to the little ones, comforting to the poor and suffering and encouraging for those who knocked at the door of the Institute.

Witness of love

Her humility, her simplicity and her constant smile won the hearts of all the citizens. Her sisters in the community esteemed her for her inalterable sweet nature, her exquisite goodness and her deep desire to make the Lord known.

“Be good, love the Lord, pray for those who do not know Him. What a great grace it is to know God!”

As she grew older she experienced long, painful years of sickness. Mother Bakhita continued to witness to faith, goodness and Christian hope. To those who visited her and asked how she was, she would respond with a smile: “As the Master desires.”

Final test

During her agony, she re-lived the terrible days of her slavery and more then once she begged the nurse who assisted her: “Please, loosen the chains... they are heavy!”

It was Mary Most Holy who freed her from all pain. Her last words were: “Our Lady! Our Lady!”, and her final smile testifiedto her encounter with the Mother of the Lord.

Mother Bakhita breathed her last on February 8, 1947 at the Canossian Convent, Schio, surrounded by the Sisters. A crowd quickly gathered at the Convent to have a last look at their «Mother Moretta» and to ask for her protection from heaven. The fame of her sanctity has spread to all the continents and many are those who receive graces through her intercession.


St. Josephine Bakhita, pray for us espeically the people of Sudan and South Sudan.
You had undergone many suffering, pray for all those forced to suffering , interceed for them.

TIMETABLE FOR P.8

The Ministry of General Education has officially announced the dates for Certificate of Primary Education (CPE) examination for the academic year 2022. The exams will start on 13th Feb and end on 17th Feb 2023. The Minister of General Education, Awut Deng Acuil, says all the processes for the examination have been put in place ahead of time.

Read to pass but Don't fail to read.

2023 ACADEMIC CALENDAR

Finally what we have been advocating for very long time is absolutely solved.

The Academic Calendar will cover up the period of 201 Instruction days from February 6, 2023 to December 15, 2023. This duration includes Primary eight and Senior four Examinations.

• Term one will begin on 06th February 2023 and will end on 05 may 2023 with 62 instruction days.There will be two-weeks term break between 06 and 21 May 2023.

• Term two will begin on 22 May 2023 and end on 25 August 2023 with 69 instruction days.There will be two-weeks term break between 26 and 10 September 2023.

• Term three willbegin on 11 September 2023 and end on 15 December 2023 with 70 instruction days. Learners will under go their term exam sat the end of each term,as per the ordinary exam calendar.

• Candidate classes, Primary 8 and Senior4, will undertake their exams in November-December 2023.

• P8 examination will start on 20 November 2023 and end on 24 November 2023

• S4 exam will start on 4th December and end on 15 December 2023.

~ Courtesy.

COMBONI CUP TOURNAMENT 2022!

FINALS: FULL TIME RESULTS

✅ Holy Cross PS (4)0️⃣ : 0️⃣(3) Hope PS

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2) ✅ 2) ✅
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BOOKINGS:
🟨 Herjok Mazika 🟨 Lat Okak
🟨 Bol Kalindou 🟨 Akoldiak Gach
🟨 Makhat Chris

Congratulations to Holy Cross Primary school's Football Team for winning the Comboni Cup 2022.

Sporting Regards.

YLFA

COMBONI CUP TOURNAMENT 2022!
Opening Ceremony 11/10/2022.

Full Time Results.
Holy Cross 2️⃣ : 0️⃣ Dhieu Alam PS
⚽ Amach 14'
⚽ Mayungu 79'

Best performing(Top ten) pupils from all the classes starting from primary one to primary eight.

During the announcement of term (I) results, August 2022.

Wishing our pupils, staff, parents and the entire school community a happy holiday.

The pupils attended the general assembly after the last paper and finally they departed for holidays until 22nd of August when they will be back.

Upper classes sitting for their final paper.