GAYAZA HIGH OFFERS 4 YEAR BURSARY TO PEARL JUNIOR SCHOOL 2024 BEST PLE CANDAIDATE, SCHOOL GIFTS PUPIL A BRAND NEW SPORTS BICYCLE

Pearl Junior School Headmaster Mr. Leny Jasper (Left), Isabella Atamba holding bike with the mother alongside the 2025 P.7 candidates and one of their teachers.
BY JIMMY MUWANIKA AND WILBER MUHWEZI KASIBANTE (MK)
IN GREATER BUSHENYI…
Gayaza High School in Kampala has offered a four year half bursary to the best candidate in the 2024 Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) of Pearl Junior School in Bushenyi district.
Isabella Atamba, emerged the best after scoring four aggregates, at the school which registered 90 pupils for the final Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) examinations last year.
According to the school’s head teacher, Mr. Leny Jasper, Atamba will study on half bursary at Gayaza High School up to senior four (S.4).
“We have been informed by the child’s mother that our best candidate has been offered a half bursary at Gayaza High School in Kampala, and that it will go on up S.4. As Pearl Junior School, we are very happy and delighted with this news. I believe the pupil’s parents are feeling the same. We however are not surprised with the news because we know our candidate and we surely believe that she will perform to the best while there. She is too bright and very hard working,” the headmaster told this news website.
He added; “the administration at Gayaza High asked the parents of the 13-year-old girl to deliver to them a letter of recommendation from me and I have already worked on the said letter.”
In addition to the bursary, Pearl Junior School’s administration and management also gifted Atamba, a brand new sports bicycle as a reward for her outstanding performance in the final examinations. The headmaster, said the gift was decided by the pupils themselves when they were asked what gift would be given to the best candidate before they sat for the examinations last year.
He said; “This sports bicycle we have rewarded Atamba, is what was agreed upon between us the pupils themselves. They agreed that the best out of all of them should be given a bicycle as they leave the school. So, this is why we have decided to gift this bicycle to her.”
Speaking to www.mknewslink.com about the two offers, Atamba said she was very excited with both of them although she has never learnt how to ride a bicycle, but hoping to learn soon since she now owns one.
She attributed her success to the hard work done to them by the school teachers, her parents and to God. Atamba promised to continue working hard and perform even better now that she is to join Gayaza High School. She says, that she wants to pursue medicine because she dreams of becoming a psychiatric doctor in the future.
Atamba explained; “I want to say thank you so much to all my teachers and my parents. They did a great job in me. I will not also forget God for the gift of life and granting me knowledge and wisdom. I am now going to make sure that I perform even better and make sure that my dream of studying medicine and becoming a psychiatric doctor comes to pass.”
“For this bicycle, though I cannot ride it now because I have never ridden any before, I am going to make it a point that I learn and master how to ride it,” Atamba added.

Isabella Atamba pose for a photo with her mother.
