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We’re very
pleased to announce that thanks to everyone’s donations, we have completed
major renovation works at the Village School. The primary area has been transformed into a
bright, dry and very pleasant place for the youngest children to be. As well as replacing the roof and all timber
work (it turned out that the roof was in imminent danger of collapse), there
are new windows and grilles, built-in cupboards for storage and some second-hand
donated desks and chairs.
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In addition, one
of the disused classrooms has been converted to a room to serve as a science
lab (perhaps not maybe one we’d recognise) and the old music room is now set up
for the students to learn computer studies.
All of this work has been completed in part by donations in memory of John
Watson from Macmillan publishers who passed away in 2006 and a grant from the
Dragon School in Oxford and their annual Dragon Sale for which we’re very
grateful.
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| Looking like school now |
We have been
promised three laptops by Cleeve School near Cheltenham too, and hope
that these will go out in October when Frances, a colleague of Gav, will spend
two weeks at the school and help get the computer room up and running.
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| Fresh and bright new classrooms |
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| The Computer Room |
This is a
significant achievement and means that the youngest kids from the most under-privileged
backgrounds will have the best start to their education and all pupils will
benefit from the new facilities and improve their chances of success in their
studies.
Thank you to
everyone for your continued support and to Sarath our contractor in Ratmalana
for ensuring the work was done on-time and to budget.
And this is a reminder of how it looked before...
