Alex in Action and....

Alex Cumming, the Deputy Director of Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme Scotland has been visiting Bakau and the Skills Centre over the past week.  He has done 3 days of training for the local Presidents International Award Field Offices (about 20 people).  Not sure what has been going on but the cheers, whoops and applause sure seem fun.  They all seem to be enjoying it,working hard and contributing very well.

Most of the female members of the group went to visit the SEC International School. It is privately run and has developed from a small junior school to a flourishing high school. The building is very impressive and students had opportunities to study martial arts as well as usual curriculum subjects.  The second floor has been built but not completed yet and the school hopes to develop further attracting good and able students and staff. Back at the Skills Centre Ros did some more teaching of mathematics to the home science students.  They managed to have a lot of fun and do some long multiplication using an easier "grid" method.  There might have been 45/50 students in a dark, hot, dusty classroom but they were really keen to learn -it was very humbling. The students thanked Mrs Ros a lot and loved the number grid and outline of the planned words on the walls of their classroom.

Morven, Emma, Jade, Shona, Mairi all went to a nursery school in the afternoon and had a lot of fun with the little children there with singing and dancing in each class.

Ann continued with her strategic thinking, planning and discussing with feedback to Abdoulie on several topics for the Skills Centre improvement. Chairs were again back on the agenda!