Immaculate Heart Girls' and the long shadow of Sr Kachope

In the south-west, Immaculate Heart Girls' carries a name still spoken alongside the late Sr Kachope's: the headmistress who turned a regional girls' school into a national one.

Her method was unfashionable and effective, long contact hours, relentless follow-up on weaker pupils, and a flat refusal to let geography stand in for lower expectations.

The school has since had to learn to run on systems rather than one person’s force of will. Largely, it has.

It remains a reminder that some of the country’s best schooling happens far from Kampala, and that a single educator can set a trajectory that outlasts them.