Mother touch grooming leaders

Mother touch Group of Schools Profile

Management

Chief Executive Officer: Mrs S. Mutsinze

Junior School Head: Mrs R. Hwata

TIC: Mrs R. Jaramba

Senior Teacher: Mr N. Rashama

Senior School Head: Mrs S. Mabika

Deputy Head: Mr S. Tigere

Heads of Administration Departments

Estate: Mr B. K. Mutsinze

Maintenance: Mr E. M. Mutsinze

Finance and Admin: Mr K. Maposa

Human Resources: Mr C. Madzima

Chaplain: Mr B. Wamunyima

Mission Statement

To produce extraordinary, God-fearing, responsible, well-rounded, grounded and globally successful competent leaders capable of positively impacting the world.

Vision

For Mother Touch to become the most preferred, comprehensive learning institution made up of Early Childhood Development, Junior school, High school and Tertiary, with excellent standards of instruction provided by well-trained staff to produce well-rounded, grounded, God-fearing, innovative and competent young men and women, capable of leading and making a difference.

Values

Love, Integrity, Diligence, Team work, Excellence, Innovativeness, Professionalism

Motto

Excellence

Mother Touch history in brief

Having spent nearly three years in deep prayer to God asking Him for the right kind of business that will see her fulfil God’s purpose, God answered her in the year 1996. God gave her the vision to start her own Early Childhood Development Centre (ECD) of which she obeyed and executed that following year.

In 1997, ECD started at Marimba with 45 children. Because of her obedience, God made sure that the business would flourish from the start that even on the opening day of ECD Centre 45 children enrolled that day henceforth the number never subsided. Because of her firm belief and conviction that in this whole wide world, except for God’s love, there was nothing which could surpass a mother’s love and touch, hence she named the ECD centre Mother Touch.

In the year 1999, after two years of operating at New Marimba Park, another ECD branch was built in Tynwald South. It was not long until parents realised that motherly love and touch was only unique to Mother Touch Institute hence they raised a lamentation to Mrs Salome Mutsinze to consider starting a primary school to perpetuate the continuous growth of their children in an enabling environment. Riding on the waves of change, she made an application to the Ministry of Education, Sports, Arts and Culture for permission to start a junior school at her Tynwald South establishment.

Unfortunately, the permission to start a junior school at 2266 Tynwald South was denied with the Ministry citing issues of space inadequacy to accommodate a junior school. Alternatively, the Ministry encouraged her to start a college for secondary level pupils and she hearkened in 1999.

This, however, did not kill her dream to establish a primary school; hence she made an application to the council for a junior school stand. Two years later in 2001, with God’s grace, Mrs Salome Mutsinze got a big enough piece of land on which the junior school was to be later built.

The payment and all paper work to fully own the land took her seven good years to complete. This endurance showed that she was a woman of Vision who was determined to see her dreams come true under whatever cost. The year 2009 became the preamble for the junior school establishment.

On a Sunday afternoon on the July 5, 2009 a major step towards the establishment of the junior was taken. In that afternoon, a mighty man of God Durajadi Simba the pastor of Mrs Salome and Mr Mike Emison Mutsinze took their priestly role of dedicating the building of the junior school to God. The spiritual foundation was laid on the scripture in Isaiah 28vsl6 which says, “I am laying a foundation stone in Jerusalem it is firm, a tested corner stone which is safe to build on”.

Commenting on this significant event, Mrs Salome Mutsinze gave reference to the biblical book of Psalms 127 which reads: “Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labour in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city the watchman stand at guard in vain.”

Services offered

Mother Touch is a comprehensive learning institution offering Early Childhood Development (ECD), Junior School and Senior School.

Early Childhood Development (ECD)

ECD A Baby Class: 18 months to 31/2 years

ECD A: 31/2 to 41/2 years.

ECD B: 41/2 to 51/2 years

Junior School: Grade 1 up to 7

Senior School: Form 1 up to Advanced Level

Other services

Boarding facility for Grade 3 to Advanced Level.

Convenient efficient transport system for school runs.

Lunch for non-boarders at a fee.

Driving School.

Centres

ECD Centre: Marimba, Harare

ECD Centre: Tynwald, Harare

Junior School: Tynwald, Harare

Victoria Falls

Senior School:Tynwald

Chegutu (enrolling for 2022)

Curriculum and Subjects

ZIMSEC

Cambridge

HEXCO – ICT

A-Level Subjects

Sciences: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Geography, Computer Science.

Commercials: Economics, Accounting, Business Enterprise, Geography, Mathematics.

Arts: English Literature, History, FRS.

Sports

Football, rugby, lawn tennis, table tennis, volleyball, swimming, athletics, basketball, golf, cricket, chess and others.

Clubs

Culinary arts, Girl Guides, Brownies, environmental club, agriculture, French speaking, Chinese speaking, agriculture club, music, ICT, chess, entrepreneurship, Christian movement and others.

Trips and Tours

Local Trips

Trips for every grade or level mostly out of Harare to areas of importance in relation curricular requirements. Major destinations locally include Great Zimbabwe, Kariba, Victoria Falls, Nyanga, Matopos and other monumental areas.

There are also trips in and around Harare to areas of educational interests like airports, game parks, museums, research facilities and other areas of interest to learners.

Regional and International Tours

United Kingdom, Wales.

Soon to be introduced: Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, South Africa and others.

Major focus of international trips

Visiting areas that enhance learning, exposure to diverse cultures, to give the learners a wider view of the world in relation to careers and breaking barriers limitations faced by 3rd world and developing learners in making career choices among other factors.

Annual music festival

It is an annual cultural festival held in United Kingdom, Wales, the Llangollen Eisteddfod Musical Festival.

Schools and learners from across the globe converge to showcase their indigenous cultures through musical and other plays.

Mother Touch Group of Schools has always outclassed and out-showed seasoned international schools and other musical groups scooping first class prizes for year 2017 to 2019.

It is an opportunity for the learners to have a tour of one of the most developed countries in the world, to learn and be inspired for a better Zimbabwe and self.

The airfares, meals, activities, and other costs are met by the parents/guardians. The school meets the costs for the staff members who will be travelling with the learners.

Learners with parents or relatives in the UK also have an opportunity to interact with them on prescribed terms and conditions.

The school helps secure the visas for the learners and the Government Registry’s offices under the Ministry of Home Affairs has always been helpful to ensure learners without passports secure them.

Excellent State-of-the-Art

Infrastructure and Facilities

Transport

The school does school run at an affordable fee paid per term.

The school has five big branded buses including two recently acquired and six mini buses.

The vehicles are well maintained, neat and clean all the time.

They are manned by experienced drivers who go for retests on a yearly basis.

Unlike other school buses, MTGS buses do not just use the main road, they go right into the neighbourhoods to pick up learners, which is very convenient for the parents and learners.

The school has a haulage truck for hire. The haulage truck is an income generating project spearheaded by the CEO herself.

Sports

The school exposes learners to world-class sporting activities. In its endeavour they provide world class sporting facilities that include all-weather courts, swimming pool, main sports field with terraces, mini golf course and others.

Among the sports, there are other elite sports like golf. Golf being an elite sports exposes learners to unlimited possibilities. The main agenda for including these elite sports was to give learners exposure to sports a lot of local people consider foreign.

Buildings

World-class facilities that include spacious and well-ventilated double storey classrooms and administration blocks, a conducive boarding house, maginificent chapel, recently constructed 2 000-seater giant hall with a good sound system, modern pavilion overlooking the main sports field, neat and clean ablution facilities with wash facilities.

ICT Infrastructure

Well-resourced Computer Lab with desktops, laptops, tablets and classroom projectors.

The whole school is connected to the internet including the boarding house.

Smart LED Classroom screens.

Grounds

Serene environment with crafty well-maintaned grounds with some portions of desert landscape.

There are exotic and indigenous trees all over the school.

Agriculture

Three big greenhouses, hydroponic and incubator facilities.

Smart Renewable Energy

Two biogas facilities installed at the school with capacity to generate gas that is used for school heating purposes.

All the centres are on solar system back-up in the event of any blackout, with the biggest system installed at the junior school with capacity to electrify the whole school.

Boreholes

All the centres water needs are provided by boreholes that provide water all year round.

Other Informative Learning Facilities

Exclusive colourful ECD play centres, informative ECD traffic centre, well equiped digital weather station and a cultural centre.

Agricultural projects

Ongoing viable agricultural projects that include

Greenhouses: Turmeric, ginger, pepper, tomato and other projects

Hydroponic: Green vegetables that include lettuce, spinach, strawberries and others.

Open Field: Varieties that include carrots, cabbage, Rugare, covo, onion, potatoes, green mealies and others.

Orchard: The following fruit trees – grapes, mangoes, paw paw, orange, lemons, indigenous and excotic trees and others

Nursery: Flowers and other vegetable seeds.

Poultry: Road runners, layers, broilers and incubator for hatching eggs.

Spiritual Growth and Development

A Christian school with a full-time chaplain.

Chapel open for prayers and other worshipping services for staff and learners.

There are prayer and fasting programmes for staff members praying for the organisation and personal lives.

Excellent Standards

a) Quality Management System (QMS)

The School is ISO 9001:2015 compliant. The one and only school in Zimbabwe vying for certification.

95 percent through to certification with intention to be ISO certified before end of 2021.

Operations guided by up to date well-planned and thought procedures and systems that bring in consistency and enable succession.

Focus of the QMS is on the client who is the learner and the parent/guardian who need well groomed, cultured, knowledgeable young lads and whose welfare is a priority for the school.

Academic Results

100 percent grade 7 pass rates from 2014 to 2016, 2018 to 2020.

Accolades

Well-maintaned primary School, Harare Metropolitan, 2013.

Well-maintaned primary School, Harare Metropolitan, 2014.

Best ECD Model Harare Province, 2014.

Staff

Well-groomed, experienced and qualified staff with proven track records for both academic and administration departments.

Current Projects