Over the last week, the relationship with the Village School Principal has grown and there is now much more mutual trust which had previously been elusive. This culminated this afternoon when she joined us for tea at the hotel. We were able to re-iterate that we really only had the best interests of the children at heart and wanted to help her improve the school so that it was the school of choice in the future for the village and beyond and to ensure its future was guaranteed.
We discussed lots of ideas and agreed to look at:
providing moveable partition walls in the main hall where the pupils from Years 7-11 are taught to minimise distractions from the other classes;
pay a monthly fee to one volunteer teacher to teach English, music to the band, and provide computer studies if a suitable venue can be found;
give the school a makeover by whitewashing the walls to brighten the environment; repairing some of the broken door frames; installing some ceiling mounted fans and metal bars over the windows;
provide after school classes 3 times a week for the youngest children who can neither read nor write;
and to see if there were a cheap way of providing transport for the children who were previously based in the fishing village but had been relocated to flats by the government some distance away.
All of these are pretty ambitious tasks which will require a lot of work (and I daresay extra fundraising) to make happen but should make a huge difference to the children.
We discussed lots of ideas and agreed to look at:
providing moveable partition walls in the main hall where the pupils from Years 7-11 are taught to minimise distractions from the other classes;
pay a monthly fee to one volunteer teacher to teach English, music to the band, and provide computer studies if a suitable venue can be found;
give the school a makeover by whitewashing the walls to brighten the environment; repairing some of the broken door frames; installing some ceiling mounted fans and metal bars over the windows;
provide after school classes 3 times a week for the youngest children who can neither read nor write;
and to see if there were a cheap way of providing transport for the children who were previously based in the fishing village but had been relocated to flats by the government some distance away.
All of these are pretty ambitious tasks which will require a lot of work (and I daresay extra fundraising) to make happen but should make a huge difference to the children.
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