Even the toilets at Olng’arua School are photogenic!
There was a lovely sunset over the school this evening. For 9 months of the year we hardly ever see a cloud, something that many of my friends in Scotland would envy, but just a few of them seem to add to the the beauty of the sky.
Science, espcially at primary level, has to be a practical subject or it quickly becomes meaningless. Thinking of simple, hands-on, ways to help children discover the wonder of science is great fun. Today we explored the different physical states of water and, before it all escaped as a gas, made a pot of tea. The …
Every afternoon, before we attend the closing meeting, the children spend half an hour doing jobs around the school. They sweep and tidy their classrooms and help put away materials used during the day. The older children also help with other jobs such as watering the fruit trees and cleaning the toilets. Today the children’s committee …
I found three of the Leopard group studying English today. They looked very serious and intent on their work. However, evidence that at least one of them had recently been out rolling in the dust of the local red soil is evident on Moijo’s head. Work hard play hard!
Today the Lion group had a story telling session, they developed their stories using words and pictures. Here are some of the results.
Elephants are a wonderful part of our local ecosystem, but normally they don’t go through areas where there are people until after dark (when they rightly guess that most of us are asleep in our houses). It was a treat to meet this lady so close to the school in daylight.
Well not quite, not entirely unreachable but not far from it. I don’t know why but for months now we have been unable to get a mobile signal at our home base, and mobile is also how we get internet. Olng’arua School doesn’t have mobile coverage either, nor do most of the other places we …