A Bit about the School and my Students.

Photos of the school grounds taken from both ends of the soccer ground which takes up nearly all of the playing area.

Glenn is teaching Grade 5 with 17 kids and I'm on Grade 4 with 16 students so far.   Our classrooms are next to each other behind the goal post and next to the toilets, which on days when the water has been cut off, get very stinky. The school day starts at 12am, we have a break for 20 minutes recess at 2pm and finish at 5pm.  

The day is divided into 40 minute lessons and a hand pressed bell signifies the change-over.   We have 3 to 4 lessons a day which we don't have to take and it works out really well.  It gives us preparation and marking time and generally we don't feel exhausted at the end of the day.

      

Here are my 16 delightful children.    

The girls are gorgeous and the boys are scatty but are easily encouraged to do the right thing.   They are dressed in the sports uniform.   I'm wearing the mandatory blue pants, white shirt and a red scarf.

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Some of my students eating their lunch in the classroom at 2 pm. 

 

It's so hot outside but inside the classrooms the four fans in the ceiling keep the room cool, so the girls and the non-soccer playing boys, eat inside for the whole of the 20 minutes Recess break.   Some of the parents arrive at the door with their hot meals on plates.  Plenty of food shows both love and wealth to these people.  The soccer players arrive back inside dripping in sweat at the end of recess.