Emmanuel, Andrew2024-05-282024-05-282016APAhttps://scholar.mzumbe.ac.tz/handle/123456789/880A dissertation submitted to the faculty of social sciences impartial/fulfillment of the requirements of the award of Master's degree of Arts in Education (MAED) of Mzumbe UniversityThis study was conducted to examine the Role of communication between the school and community in ward secondary schools performance in Singida Municipality. The specific objective of the study were to find out the role played by schools and community in ensuring communication exists and it is effective in the school, to explore community participation in everyday activities of schools, to find out the perception of community and the school on the need for the effective communication between them and to find out the influence of effective communication between community and schools to the students performances. The study involved 105 respondents (58 male and 47 female). The study has used simple random and purposive sampling techniques, also the study employed case study research design, employed interview and questionnaire methods for data collection. The study used thematic and statistical descriptive techniques for data analysis. The findings shows that schools and community do not ensure the existence of effective communication between them since there is great communication breakdown that lead to the difficulties in teaching and learning activities in the ward secondary schools, poor participation of parents into different schools activities as well as poor channel used for school and community communication. Also, the findings noted that there is poor participation of community in everyday activities of school such as indiscipline cases of their children, payment of school contributions and to participate in school`s meetings for decision making on different matters. The presence of poor perception of the community and school hinder effective communication between them. Lastly the study revealed the impacts caused by lack of communication between community and schools to the students’ performances. Lack of effective communication lead to indiscipline of students, lack of parents’ seriousness on making follow up of their children academic progress.enRole of CommunicationWard secondary SchoolsCommunication in schools& CommunityCommunication and Students performanceTanzaniaThesis