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Oshodi Senior High School, a Lagos State Public Co-Educational Institution was founded in 1981. It is situated at Bolade, off Oyetayo road, via Oshodi/Isolo Local Government, Lagos State. The school boasts of a serene environment which is conducive for teaching / learning activities. The philosophy of the school is to provide all-round education as well as raising up solid generation of future leaders who will make meaningfully contribution nationally and internationally. Our school excelled in the 2018 WASSCE result with 96%. This is why we were awarded the 1st Best School Senior Category in Education District VI.
Our students are exposed to leadership skills and high moral standard which enabled them to become excellent youths without blemish.
Our school has accomplished laudable achievements, not only in academics but in sports, socially and morally. Many of our alumni members passed out through reputable universities nationally and internationally. We are proud to announce that they are thriving successfully in their different fields of life.
Our success story was made possible as a result of the noble inputs of Lagos State Government; public, private partnership with NGOs, philanthropist gestures of our old students and our amiable parents, well trained members of staff and interactive/innovative teaching/learning strategies and cordial relationship among all the stakeholders. God factor in everything we do is our strongest propelling force. We daily commit our learners, teachers and community into God’s hand and we inculcate godly values into the students not only by preaching but by modeling.

RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE SCHOOL
· 1st Position (Senior Category) Oshodi/Isolo zone of the 2020 academic quiz competition on commercial subjects in Education District VI.
· 1st Best School (Senior Category) in Education District VI in 2019
· Mr Jamiu Shoderu, a Non-Teaching Staff was 1st Best Non-Teaching Staff (Senior Category) in Education District VI in 2019.
· 2nd Best Teacher in Education District VI (Mrs Onwuma Bosede) in 2018
· 1st and 2nd positions in essay competition organized by 9mobile in 2018.
· 2nd position (Male Football Team) in TG/PS Education District VI Football Competition 2019
· 2019 best SS1 and SS2 students award by BEC Impact Resources (awarded to Adeoye Michael and Itodo Victory)
· The school won 10 spikes boots as consolation prize for participating in 2019 Channels Tv School Athletic Competition.
· 1st position in cycling competition 2019 organized by Nigeria School Sports Federation. Temiloluwa Ogunmolati won a gold medal
· The school participated in the 2019 Science and Technology camp for Senior Secondary Schools
· Two of our students are currently participating in the Inter Districts Maltina Schools Competition 2020.

Oshodi Senior High School is marching on to greater heights.
Up school; Knowledge is Light.

Vetland Senior Grammar school is an upgraded model college in Education District 1, Lagos State. We have a 100% credit pass in WASSCE 2019.
The highly esteemed public school is known for its feats of success in the District, State, National and International competitions.
We have won series of awards that earned us the award of the Best in the District and one out of the Best six schools from the six Districts in Lagos State,
We design Educational plans like peer mentoring, in-loco-parentis, whereby students are distributed regularly under a teacher – parent care to guide and monitor them academically and otherwise.
We also utilize collaborative teaching by engaging teachers from other schools / Departments to teach their area of expertise.
We combine teaching and extra – curricular activities in the school to bring out outstanding, confident and all-round educated students.
Our students are inspired to have positive mental attitude for success through regular motivation talks. Our dedicated academic staff, go extra miles by conducting Bi – weekly mock Assessment to prepare the S.S III students and identify their area of weaknesses.
In addition, breakfast and weekend classes are employed for extensive treatment of WASSCE past questions in all subjects.

VETLAND SENIOR GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Vetland Senior Grammar School is a standard Model (DAY) school built on a robust Academic foundation with an impressive achievement among other public schools in Lagos State.
Keeping with the school’s mission of “pursuing the path of excellence to nurture the leaders of tomorrow in a serene and composed environment” the school provides necessary lee ways for her staff and students towards having passion for learning and creativity.
The platform provided by the Lagos State Government and the ingenuity of our astute Tutor – General / Permanent Secretary has given us a pat at the back to making the school a reference point amongst her equals.
RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS BY THE SCHOOL
The achievements of the school recently include, but not limited to the following:
November 2017, 1st Prize winner in “RAW MATERIALS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
COUNCIL” Quiz Competition organized by the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology.
February 2018, 1st Prize winner in “ROTARY ESSAY COMPETITION, IFAKO IJAYE” organized by the Rotary Club.
June 2018, 2nd Position in LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT QUIZ” organized by Lagos State Ministry of Education.
June 2018, 2nd Position in “LAGOS STATE SCHOOL DEBATE SEASON IX” organized by Lagos State Government.
March 2019, 1st Prize winner in a” DEBATE” ORGANIZED BY Redeemers College
June 2019, 3rd Position in “OLUWOLE AWOKOYA AWARD” organized by Chemical Society of Nigeria.
September 2019, one of the 13 finalists in South-West Nigeria of the PZ CUSSON CHEMISTRY CHALLENGE 2019” organized by PZ CUSSON plc.
October 2019, 1st Position in NAFEST 2019 ESSAY COMPETITION” organized by Lagos State Art and Culture.
The School has a 100% academic success in her WASSCE results for the inputs of the tireless, but highly focused Principal, Mrs. Taiwo, A.E
2019 Best Principal in Education District 1 Merit Award 2019
BEST WASSCE result 2019 Education District 1 Merit Award
BEST WASSCE candidate 2019 Education District 1 Merit Award
BEST PERFORMING ALUMNI 2019
The outstanding performance of the school is borne out of a well-equipped library, a crop of highly qualified and dedicated teachers; a well-equipped laboratories among others.
The school’s Principal, Mrs. Taiwo, A.E has an unparalled passion for the job, a state-of-the-Art Podium, she single – handedly built for the school.
The school has produced distinguished individuals who passed through her tutelage, among whom are but not limited to: 1. Dr. Adeniran Segun, A surgeon based in Warri, Nigeria, who had a scholarship to study from the Cuba Government, Nigeria Government and Lagos State Government. 2. Honourable Yinka Ogundimu of Lagos State House of Assembly, who is currently the Chairman Education Committee, among others.
The JAMB Scores of our students ranged between 280 and 308. Not less than 80 percent have secured admission into higher institutions in 2019. Among such students include but not limited to: 1. Sunday Odebowale (Lagos State University) 2. Oyaleke Deborah (Bowen University) 3. Oduola Faith (University of Ghana) 4. Adesanya Oluwafemi (University of Lagos) 5. Enilolobo Oluwafemi (University of Ibadan). A lot of these students recorded distinctions of the A1 grade in their results. The majority of them have 5 distinctions and above
The school introduces the students to challenges that can put them through in life as early as they are admitted into the school.
Besides, the school inaugurated a football team and introduced wholesome athletics to augment the academic well-being of the students. The newly inaugurated football team had an outing recently at the “Christ Embassy”, Lagos football competition where the team carted away 4 medals in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 6th positions. The athletes recently won for the school: 1. 1st position in 100 meters boys; 2. 2nd position in 100 meters boys; 3. 2nd position in short put (girls) and 4. 2nd position in long jump (boys). This singular act qualified the school to represent Education District 1 in the Maltina Sports fiesta.
The school’s Cultural Group was singled out to entertain guests at the “67th Birthday” of WAEC in 2019.
The Excellent Performance of the school was acknowledged and appreciated by all and sundry among whom are but not limited to: 1. Hyundai Motors, who supplied the school with computers together with furniture. 2. China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) who undertakes the Federal Railway Construction System, took it upon itself to paint the school buildings.
The Principal Vetland Senior Grammar School, Ifako-Ijaye Lagos.

THE PRINCIPAL VETLAND SENIOR GRAMMAR SCHOOL IFAKO-IJAYE LAGOS.
TAIWO A.E (MRS)

The use of technology in teaching and learning in GSS Kubwa is driven out of a high level motivation which resulted from a workshop organized by the Chairman Secondary Education Board for principals and vice principals on capacity building in Federal Civil Service College in Abuja. This specifically was drawn from a remark made by one of the resource persons. According to him, the system of education in Nigeria is drawn back by implementers of education system.
According to him also, the emphasis made by the monitors that things have to be done the way it used to be since independence, is being the reason behind the static state of our education system, rather than accepting innovation.
The resource person hence suggested that the school heads should go back to their respective schools and queue into these modern innovations starting from them.
Innovation in my own words can be defined as new ways of doing things that can bring tangible growth and development to the needs of the immediate environment. If we want to embrace innovation, we have to change our management skills to meet up with the modern trends.
Modern teachers are actually different from teachers of the old. They are digital, hence the need to digitalize everything they need to teach as an ‘old school principal’, you must be ready to queue into accepting younger generations, read books, search for information to update yourself. Subsequently put them into practice Never accept the state of Nigeria as an impediment towards the implementation of innovations. It is never an excuse because you must do it according to your ability.
Such innovations embraced by GSS Kubwa are stated below:
1. Installation of CCTV (Closed Circuit Television) Cameras:
CCTV cameras have been installed in various strategic points in the school helping to monitor and track activities of students, teachers, etc around the school. This is surely a strong security measure.
The CCTV Camera is backed with 7.5KVA generator purchased by the school, as well as solar panels and inverters for effective and constant power supply enabling the system work and function efficiently.
2. Automated Bell System:
An automated bell system has been installed in the school to notify change of lessons and time for important school activities in the school programme. Through the automated bell system (speaker), information can be passed to staff and students in the school environment directly from the principal’s desk.
This automated bell system has gradually replaced the use of manual bell used formerly in the school notifying change of lesson. This automated system also uses the power generated through the solar panel and 7.5KVA generator purchased by the school.
3. Multimedia Projectors
The school purchased four (4) multimedia projectors to be installed in all the laboratories (Chemistry, Physics and Biology
laboratories) as well as the technical drawing studio. A standby generator is already fixed in the laboratories to supply power needed by the projectors.
The projectors are android configured and possess the basic facilities used by the computer system to access the internet. About two WIFI devices are already provided to aid this process.
The teachers can use the projectors as audio-visual aid for teaching and learning process. The teachers as well can access google to search for necessary and related diagrams and pictures needed for teaching the students.
4. Biometric Attendance
This biometric attendance is currently undergoing a pilot test. The students’ basic information are being captured. With this biometric attendance, the parents are notified when their wards/children arrive school and when they exit the school environment, through a means of thumb printing. The intention is to modernize the use of hard copy attendance register and also helps to track the movement of the child in and out of the school.
5. Use of computer to prepare lesson plan
Some teachers already have commenced this process. Some in business department and ICT department. This makes their work easier and more accessible.
6. Professional Learning Community
Introduction of professional Learning Community in GSS Kubwa was mandated because of some teachers who are weak in some topics related to their subject areas. This innovation has helped carry them along.
The Professional Learning community was introduced by a group of educational experts in the United States in the 1960s but came into full implementation in the 80s and 90s. However, we must not necessarily do it their own way. Hence we have to put it into practice the way it will suit our immediate environment. The teachers teaching the same classes and their different arms come together to deliberate on the topic, same entry behaviour and same evaluation, with the aim of achieving common goals.
That single lesson plan prepared by that group of teachers will now stand as a document type- written and serve as a guide to the teachers concerned. At the end, they all have the same goal, same note and same evaluation techniques.
In Government Secondary School Kubwa, we have over twenty five (25) different professional learning communities and lesson notes are prepared in groups. This has gone a long way in helping the weaker ones because the main and basic objective is to achieve a common goal.
Because we have succeeded in the full implementation of Professional Learning Community in the school, we will now fully queue into flip learning programme that is geared towards preparing a child to the real contact in the classroom by using an app. This however may seem difficult, but we must accept it and start from somewhere. With this, students can have access to their teachers’ lesson topics at home using their parents’ internet device or phone. Some of these lesson topics are the ones yet to be taught. This is what I refer to as “contact before contact”. Subsequently, the teacher can then evaluate and guide the students on that. Teachers can now upload their lessons online where they can make monetary gain from such act.