Principal Statement

Nakauvadra High School is situated beside the Kings highway and about 3 Km from Vaileka town and 250 Km North East of Suva. The school is run by the school committee and is owned by the Rakiraki tikina in the Ra province of Fiji which consist of 2o villages from Namuaimada in the East to Rabulu in the west along the Kings highway. The school was named after the Nakauvadra mountain range which formed the background of the school from the North east and historical settlement of Fijian ancestral clans before they dispersed to the other parts of Fiji where they exist now.

The school was a Junior secondary school in the seventies and eighties and changed into high school in 1990. This is its tenth year as a high school and has forms from form 3 to 6 in the academic stream. It also introduce vocational courses starting in 1986 where it taught Carpentry and Joinery for boys and Catering and Tailoring for girls. In 1p996 it offered another vocational course that is Automotive Engineering. In 2000 it opened two more vocational discipline that is Computing and Agriculture and Fishing.
At present it offers form 3 to 6 in academic streams and 5 Vocational discipline. All vocational courses are for two years except for Computing is offered only for a year.

The Vocational education in our main area at the moment because we try to educate all the students who have dropped out from the normal education system and teach them a life skill which he or she could use when he leaves school. Our intentions was to cover students from the tikina of Rakiraki that is from Namuaimada to Rabulu and we are doing that very well. We have enrolled students in vocational as low as dropouts in class 6 and have been in the village for long that is about sixteen to seventeen years old people. We also enroll mature students that is 20 years and over who are able to follow school rules and wear school uniforms. Our objective is to educate everyone as far as possible.
We have carried out community outreach program over the past five years, where by group of teachers go out into the village after school and discuss the importance of education in their lives. This had tremendous effort on the roll of the school which rose from 200 to 300 in 2001 , 2002, 2003.
Completing student from vocational sections are networked into Fiji Institute of Technology by the school and at present the school is trying to offer Fiji Institute of Technology courses in the school in the near future.
Academically performance in the two external examination that is Fiji Junior and Fiji leaving certificate is improving year by year and last year 2002 was one of our best year in the two examination, that is Fiji Junior pass was 64% pass and Fiji Leaving Certificate 45.7%.
I take this opportunity to thank Steve and Karen and John from union college from New York for their contribution in upgrading the school through computer education. To Steve an Karen and John for the generous donation for computers and installation and payment of the internet facilities in education using cameras and developing the webpage for the school. A big vinaka vakalevu, the school is indebted to the three of you.
Special thanks is extended to the Tui Navitilevu who is the patron of the school for his kind donation of twenty thousands dollars (20,000.00) which enable the school to have 10 computers and a laboratory.
Least but not last I thank my hard working assistant Joeli Dakuidreketi Vice principle, MR Muneshwar Goudar the assistant principle and our staff members for their support and hard work in trying to lift the standard of education of the people of Rakiraki.
Thank you and God bless.

Sairusi Doge
Principal.
 
Contact Information:
P.O Box 53
Rakiraki, Ra
nakauvadra@connect.com.fj
Phone: 6694313
Fax: 6694555