We Nurture Wonderful Human Beings

We are lucky to have received another team of long-term volunteers: Yogesh and Tanamayi from the US and India, and Carlo from Kenya, joined us in January and are helping to set the school on fire.

As you can tell from the pictures below, there is so much color trending: the paint brush is at its peak. Dance classes have evolved: the kids are now enthralled with Bollywood dancing as well as traditional African tribal dances; and they can't get enough of the new natural 'fallen tree' playground, where they are being slowly introduced to a form of 'parcours', called MovNat.

Meanwhile, Yr3 and Yr4 have been exploring the crazy craters in our region of Uganda. As an entry point into their topic, the children were taken back to the beginning of time to explore what the earth looked like before the continents were created. While studying about the earth millions of years ago, the children were passionate to learn more about dinosaurs. They have been working hard to create the very first dinosaur museum in Western Uganda. They have written information texts in Literacy class, built 3D dinosaur skulls and created some lovely artwork, studying in depth  their favorite prehistoric animal. Following on from this, they have been learning about the structure of the earth, and are next going to study our very own (as in, right on our doorstep) rift valley.

Yr1 and Yr2 have been discovering more about habitats and animal adaptation. It just so happened that one morning a beautiful camel and her owner were walking past the school. Luckily, they kindly agreed to come in and visit. It was a fantastic opportunity to learn first-hand about animal adaptation. We studied its long eyelashes and hairy ears for keeping out the desert sand. We looked at its broad hooves, and learnt about its hump for storing food. We also discussed how the camel's mouth is very tough which makes it perfect for eating spiky cactuses. One fact we all excitedly discovered was that a camel can close its nostrils in a sand storm.

Thank you Hattie, for choosing to volunteer with us during your gap year period. Yr3 and Yr4 are loving the netball (heavily rivalled by the staff) thanks to your meticulous introduction and tireless coaching; not to mention that you first had to design, source the steel, and make the goal posts in a day with our non-english speaking welder Julius.  

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