On the last day of term, before breaking up for the Easter holidays, the children of Olng’arua Primary School held an important football match. This was no ordinary match. The school divided into two teams, loosely translated as the ‘Goats’ and the ‘Cows’. There were few rules (and those few were quickly discounted). The game …
At Christmas time Liberty raised money for DARE by making and selling ‘paper logs’. The paper logs are made by compressing old news papers with a paper log maker. Liberty told us that the logs burn for hours and that they were very easy to make. But Liberty’s entrepreneurial spirit didn’t end with simply making …
The Olng’arua School is one of the most photogenic schools I have ever been to. I have put together a set of images from this lovely school on flicker. You can see the photographs, even if you are not a flicker user, at Olng’arua School on Flicker The Olng’arua community also now has it’s own …
Craignish Primary School, in a little village on the west coast of Scotland, took the time to raise money for Oling’arua school.
This building will be home to the first class at Olng’arua School. A group of around 25 young kids, going to school for the first time. This will be a nursery class. There must, of course, also be toilets.