Cheesy tunes, crazy dancing and Fish N chip s

Thursday 20^th July

The staff version of events……

Today the effects of the effort being put in throughout the week has started to show as some students felt tired and weary in the morning. This was quickly forgotten though once students pulled up to their projects and were greeted with smiling faces and the welcome song. Students are starting to feel more comfortable teaching and have been experimenting with more in depth lessons including collaborative learning and are growing in confidence. Most of the projects have involved heavy lifting and painting this week, and there are some sore bodies as a result, but nothing Kenya’s version of fish and chips for dinner, and cold beverages couldn’t fix. The evening consisted of some down time and packing for the waterfall excursion tomorrow, early nights all round.....we hope......:D 

Ronaken 

This morning we carried on with the construction for the new wall being built at the Ronaken and discussed lesson plans and other jobs before deciding who would head to where first. Rachel and Alice began in the kitchen with the cooks Lucy and Margaret and began with preparing the porridge for the children and preparing the children’s meals for lunch. Becky, Athine, Daisy, Tegan, James and Rachel began on the construction with Ms Wilson and Ms Raybould before everyone gathered in the courtyard for some dancing and music with the children at break. After lunch we had no construction to be done and so all were in several class rooms either teaching or sitting in the classes watching the lessons. At the end of the day Athine, Alice and Emma W did a paper airplane competition with class 6 which was thoroughly enjoyed by all of them. 

Jubilee

Today we began painting the inside of the new classroom that is being built; we started off with one group painting white while the others made bracelets and taught. The whole morning Liv, Caitlin, Sarah and Ella sat in the staff room making bracelets for the children with beads spelling out their names. The children could not have looked happier when they were given to them; they were jumping up and down in excitement. After lunch Dan, Davo and Sam taught maths and Ella, Sarah and Georgia carried on painting. In the last hour of the afternoon we brought out the bean-bags and everyone played catch with the children.

                              

The Walk

Today, the girls started off by painting the inside one of the newly built classrooms which was really messy as the paint splatted all over our clothes but we enjoyed it anyway as we had Tommo’s speaker on. While the girls were painting the classrooms, the boys did a practical lesson with the children which included using a parachute and bouncy balls to create fun games for the younger aged children of around 4-7 years old. This included fresh new activities: ‘Cat and Mouse’ and ‘Through the Hole’. The children absolutely loved the parachute which brought a new smile on to their faces and ours a like. After giving out the food to the all of the pupils within the school, we ate our lunch in one of the classrooms. Then the girls chose to continue the parachute games with the older aged children whilst the boys began to paint the outside of the walls with music in the background. Before we knew it was time to go as we said Goodbye to the children and set off on our journey back to the hotel singing some James Bay.