Day 4! :)

Today is day 4 in Uganda and it was our first full day teaching at bright future school. Amhan, Jayna and Courtney worked alongside Miss Kirk and had roles as reading mentors working with children aged 3 to 4. The rest of the group were leading sport sessions with primary 1 and primary 2. 

The aim of the reading mentoring was to teach the children phonics. At first the mentors struggled to get to grips with it due to the language barrier but after the children began to understand the mentors felt it had all been worth it. The aim of the sports sessions were to get the younger children playing with the equipment we had bought over for them. We started off with a variety of games such as parachute games and dodgeball. Unfortunately at first we faced problems due to the language barrier again but we soon got around this by explaining the games to the teachers and sports leaders who then translated it for the children.  In the afternoon we played against some of the older children in a rounders match who will also be playing In the sports festival. Stoke Park lost graciously against the extremely talented and modest Bright Future students. A particular stand-out moment was when Mrs Osman-a P.E teacher for the last 29 years was shown by a sports leader how to throw a ball during the match. However everyone enjoyed the game and there was a really nice atmosphere between the two teams. 

While in the evening, Miss Kirk won the   Prize Prat of the Day award for asking 'What is Twitter?'.