This post is mainly for Charlie as he asked me before I left to go and visit Valley View Primary School. Hope (pronounced Hob…) is the P4 teacher and popped round to the Guest House a few days after a TAORP truck took a few people to visit the school. So after Livvy bailed this morning as she was still fast asleep, I went and met Hope and we started our looooooong boda ride.
To imagine this primary school, your need to think of pretty much the poorest school you can imagine, then multiply that by ten. The school was recently inspected and needs £25,000 invested in permanent building structures if not they’re going to have to close. They had someone who was on track to get the school £100,000 but unfortunately he got hit by truck a few months ago and his memory is pretty much non-existant.
I had to introduce myself in assembly in front of a few hundred kids as ‘the new Charlie’, and then anounced in class as Teacher Jen…how strange!! I spent the rest of the morning watching Hope’s Maths and English lessons, and I’m scheduled to teach next week Science and Maths.
The original toilets to the left, and Charlie’s brand spanking new toilets he built with help from Bujigali Trust last year on the right! :
A typical classroom:
Assembly was awesome, full of singing, dancing, clapping! The kids moved the desks from the classrooms and plonked them by a massive tree :
The soloists! :
P.S. The freaks in the room by the kitchen!!
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