Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Day 5 :D

Day 5 in Uganda - Today was another successful day working at bright future school with the children as well as the teachers! Jayna, Courtney and Amhan trained some of the older students to become reading mentors for younger students. It was incredible to see how quickly they picked up the needed skills to be a successful mentor. To see them develop confidence within the space of 20 minutes of us training them was unbelievable and left us with a sense of accomplishment as we felt as though the skills gained can be passed on further and students can continue to develop their skills after our visit is over. Whilst Connor, Bianca, Tasha, and Brittany were doing the sports training, Charandeep focused mainly on the technology side by helping Martin to set up the new laptops which were sent over by stoke park school. What we found amazing about this, is the ideas that Martin had with the laptops. He wanted to create an entire ICT suite with wifi Internet connection so that the children could easily access the Internet which would definitely help them in the future! The sports training was also a success as we got through to the older students, and had them trained to compose and teach playground games.  After lunch, we got involved in match of N-Ball. Again it was Stoke Park school Vs Bright Future school. We are proud to say we did not loose however we also didn't win. The match ended at a draw with a score of 5-5. This was a great way to end the perfect day at bright future school!

2 comments:

  1. Hi everyone – it’s been great reading your blog everyday – you are obviously having an amazing time. Well it continues to be really hot here, Sports Day was the hottest ever – water supplies and sunscreen the order of the day. The final countdown has started for me just 2 more early mornings- feeling excited and sad in equal measure. Enjoy the rest of your trip and I will see you all on August 15th.

    Sandra Arch

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  2. Please send pictures on how Martin has setup the computers, Both Ian and I are interested in seeing how they are used.

    David Wells
    ICT Network Manager
    Stoke Park School

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