King Mohammed V High School

                                           


Some of my future posts will be in collaboration with the local state High School. Some of the baccalaureate english students have been doing some work writing about Taroudant and its history.
First I will let Abdelwahad Ait Lachguer, a second year Bac Humanities student, tell you about the school:;

"Mohamed V High School was founded by the association of the Souss Oulama, (a group of religious scholars), in 1956 under the supervision of the king Mohamed V.  At that time, lessons started in different mosques in the city such as the Great mosque, the Kasbah mosque, and the Ferk Lahbab mosque.  It was inaugurated by the king in 1959.  It gave lessons in different religious disciplines only (original education).

     Mohamed V High is the biggest school in Taroudant. Our school is so special because its education ranges from primary to high school.  Today, particularly in 2008, it receives students from other disciplines like sciences, arts, and humanities (modern education).

This year 2011-2012, Mohamed V High School has a number of 1349 students divided between the three kinds of education : 61 in primary school (13 of them are girls), 233 in the middle school (89 girls), and 1055 in high school ( 514 are girls).There are 89 teachers (7 teachers of English).

     There are 45 rooms , a laboratory, two big libraries, a multi-media room, a mosque, a boarding house and many playgrounds for sport."

    

The school day is from 8am-12noon and 2-6pm. Students will not have 8 hours of lessons but will come and go according to their timetable. Teaching staff teach classes for 4 hours each day either in the morning or afternoon depending on their timetable and need not attend at the school for the other half day.