Nakauvadra High School

From the Principal: 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 20 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.

Sairusi Doge
Principal.

Contact Details

Nakauvadra High School
PO Box 53, Rakiraki, Ra
Email: nakauvadra@connect.com.fj

About Us: HISTORY OF NAKAUVADRA

The Province of Ra decided that there should be a High School for Ra to cater for the Ra people. The District Elders which consists of the four district Nalawa, Nakorotubu, Rakiraki and Saivou then decided to built the school known as Ra high in the Nalawa district. To fund for the school each district had to donate a substantial amount of money to the province. The eleders of Rakiraki then met and decided that it was not to their advantages to send their children to Ra high school because of the long distance travelled and costs they have to meet. So they gave their contribution to the province of Ra for the Province High School and went on to built their own school.

The school first under the name of Rakiraki Central School was opened 1965 at Navunidawa near Navolau to cater for classess 7and for fijian students within the locality.

On 5th of February 1962, 41 students were admitted to the Rakiraki Central School. The school was located between Navolau No1 and Namuaimada. However after two years of operations the school was completely destroyed by the 1966 cylone.

Between 1962 and 1969 the school was shifted twice owing to a hurricane that completely destroyed the original site. A shed was errected in the Rakiraki District School compound where the classess continued. In 1970 while still under Rakiraki Central, the school was shifted to its present site at Korowaqa about 3km from vaileka town along the kings road towards suva.

By 1970 277 students had been admitted. Nakauvadra Junior Secondary School was started at the present site. The Provincial Secondary School, Ra Junior Secondary School to cater for students of Rakiraki Tikina because of the long distance travel and expenses.

The school was a multiracial school admitting not only Fijians, but also Indian students.With the continous and ever increasing keenees for better education, coupled with the famous slogan of the people of Ra "MAE NA MAE". The late Tui Navitilevu Ratu Emori Bolobolo and his people got together to re-establish the school beside the already existing Rakiraki District School temporarly until a suitable location was sought.