Reports from Kenya
from S:t Christine School
10-09-23 School report
Report from the school by David.
10-09-17 Kisumu tour
Report from the educational tour to Kisumu by Duncan, including pictures.
10-08-26 School progress report #2
Read the second report from Duncan, including pictures.
10-08-25 School progress report #1
We are in second week of tuition; learning has been going on as usual with teachers completing various syllabi. We are soon closing for a short Holiday for the pupils & teachers to relax a beat. However teachers realized need for revision books since they have completed most course books. We therefore sat as a staff and ordered for some revision books. I have sent this order to David for formal request.
Moreover it was a good moment with good turn up from both teachers and pupils. Teachers and pupils have been busy with class work. We are looking forward to your continuous positive support.
Duncan
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10-07-30 End of term
The school is officially closed today 30th of July 2010, 3rd term will begin on 6th of September 2010,
however we have agreed to have classes 3 to 6 coming on 16th of August for remedial teaching.
The results are good in all classes but very good in class six. This is as a result of good
work done by teachers and good cooperation between the teachers and the pupils.
It is my hope that these results will be improved even better before the end of the year.
Our main vision is to make st Christine school a center of academic excellence.
My request is take these pupils for a day tour in Nakuru to break classroom boredom.
I have also sent the results for you to see.
David.
10-05-31 Bright Future Looming
This is the first report from the recently started journalist group at St Christine School directed by Duncan.
09-11-04 New books to the library bought by Rotary money
Hi
It was a very happy moment for teachers and pupils of st christine school when they received new library books meant
for revision before the end of the year.
Infact both teachers and pupils have promised to give their best with the new books.
The books were bought on monday 2nd of this month [November].
David
09-11-03 Message from David
Hi
we are all fine, pupils and teachers. No more cases
of disease, its contained.
David
09-10-27 Cholera
David:
"We are starting our 2nd tests tomorrow (091028) and all sick pupils are back in School learning.
There is another cholera outbreak in the village and I’m thinking of inviting a health officer to assess the situation.
Otherwise there is no serious case so far."
Håkan:
"Please do! Maybe you invite the parents to a meeting with him to get instructions on how to deal with it.
If you have homes with poor standard when it comes to drinking water and hygiene and not enough to eat for the
small ones, then you assess the situation and give me an update.
I´m a little surprised because it´s mainly a problem of the malnourished and in places without decent water.
Our kids seem well fed to me and most of them clean and healthy.
The only thing we can do at school is keep on washing hands with soap and keep track on where you get the vegetables.
I´d rather see you not serving uncooked vegetables or fruit until the cholera is under control.
I´ll tell the visitors to have vaccination."
09-10-21 Disease
There is an outbreak of a disease in the village and has infected our pupils in class five.
Ten of our boys and girls have headache and coughing is the main sign that can be noticed.
We have however tried to treat them at Othoro dispensary and now they are recovering,
we are further assessing the rate of infection daily on other classes.
So far it is only class five who are infected and I think it was from their
homes.
David
09-10-15 Computer programme
How are you!
Happy to inform you that class five pupils were very happy as they are learning more on
computer as other pupils eye them and long for the same. For more see the attached file.
Duncan.
09-09-10 School activities
These are pictures from the school and the nusery bed. You can see the Jatropha seedling that germinates and part of the vegetables on bed. This is standard four pupils and madam Lilian an the other one is the nusery class with Madam Philgona and Madam Faiza and some teachers in the staffroom. Felix
09-09-07 Opening the school
Hi all
How are you?
we are opening the school in the morning and all teachers and pupils are expected
to report to school by 8 in the morning. Everything is in place for last term of the year.
David.
09-08-27 Holiday
Hi,
I manged to work to some homes where the children from the St. Christine live to find what they do this holiday especially when they dont attend the school.
As you can see, these children collect firewood from the garden to be used to cook food at the fire place.
See all my pictures here.
Felix
09-08-26 Computer programme
Hi
we are doing well in Kenya and St. Christine in particular. I have planned to devide the class five into 3 groups for computer lessons
which shall be after normal class hours and each group is assigned a day. We are starting with the teachers' comp.
However I have already started introducing the whole class during this tuition period. Nice time in Sweeden!
Duncan
09-08-08
Svensk grupp på besök vid terminsavslutningen
De sista dagarna på terminen har varit hektiska i skolan.
På avslutningen i onsdags premierades de lärare som visat bäst
resultat under terminen med 750 KSH till klädinköp:
|
Klass |
Ämne |
Betygssnitt |
Lärare |
|
0 |
Naturkunskap |
95,10 |
Faiza |
|
1 |
Matte |
64,24 |
Erick |
|
2 |
Kiswahili |
61,23 |
Mourine |
|
3 |
Matte/naturkunskap |
62,05 |
Duncan |
|
4 |
Kiswahili |
59,69 |
Lilian |
|
5 |
Matte |
60,5 |
David |
Betygssnittet visar på elevernas resultat vid de nationella
proven för terminen i respektive ämne. Om man ser det hela ur elevperspektiv
och jämför oss med grannskolan Anyona Primary så är 22 elever i vår bästa
klass, 5:an, bättre i totalgenomsnitt för alla ämnen än deras bästa elev.
Eleverna fick premier i form av pennor, skrivböcker etc.
Vi fick också besök från Sverige av en grupp på 12 personer
under ledning av Anna Gunlycke. De besökte både skolan och projektkontoret. De
var med på skolavslutningen och spelade boll med barnen med bollar man haft med
sej. De besökte också biblioteket och överlämnade böcker man haft med sej.
På kvällen var det grillafton hos Herbert där de bodde under sin natt i byn.
De hade gärna stannat längre om deras resplan tillåtit det. De lovade komma
tillbaka på sin nästa resa till Kenya.
På fredagen den 7 augusti var St Christine värd för
”Education Day” med representanter för 25 skolor i området.
På måndag den 10:e börjar extraundervisning under de två första
veckorna på lovet för eleverna i klasserna 3 – 5 för att befästa och
ytterligare höja elevernas resultat. Under Davids ledning jobbar man stenhårt
på att förbli den ledande skolan i distriktet även när barnen når de högre
klasserna. Utmaningen ökar med elevernas ålder. Toppbetyg för eleverna innebär
också möjlighet till stipendier till vidare studier på högre nivå när man
lämnar St Christine.
Håkan
09-06-05
MUSIC
FESTIVAL IN KABONDO DIVISION ON 4TH JUNE 2009
ST.CHRISTINE SCHOOL QUALIFIES
I m happy to report to you that our school performed very well in our division of kabondo.
Out of 54 schools our school was number two in sacred song competition with 85%.
Our second song was traditional fork song in which we were number three with 80%.
This was a good performance as far as our school is concerned, both choirs qualifies to compete in the district on 10th June.
David.
09-05-23
Davids rapport från friidrottstävling som skolan deltagit i:
The following pupils participated in our zonal athletics sports competition and were selected to participate again on Tuesday 26th during divisional athletics sports.
800m
Race
1 Beatrice Awuor
2 Neddy Akinyi
3 Ann
Adhiambo
4 Jared Ojwang
5 Linda Aluoch
400m
1 Kevin Odhiambo
2 Ferdnant Onyango
3 Beatrice Awuor
1500m
1 Kevin Ochieng
2 Geofrey Odhiambo
Walking
Race
1 Danish Ogolla
2 Joseph Obongo
3 Jared Ojwang
4 Zacharia Ngandi
Beatrice Awuor of class four was declared number one in 800m race beating all others from 22 schools.
She will represent the zone in the divisions at Opanga primary on Tuesday.
09-05-13
Skolan snart självförsörjande avseende grönsaker.
Inom två veckor behöver vi inte köpa grönsaker till skolköket eftersom vi då har tillräckligt med egenodlat. Vi kommer att komplettera med flera andra sorter eftersom vi nu har en bra bas i den lokala, mycket vitamin- och näringsrika, kålen sukuma wiki. Detta meddelar oss Håkan efter rapport från David. Samtidigt äskar han pengar för inköp av gödsel och bekämpningsmedel mm.
09-05-05
Nu har biblioteket öppnat och skolan är igång efter uppehållet.
David: We opened the school today, and turn up is good. All teachers reported and they started working
immediatly. The library is running up and children have started reading in there as from
today. They are really happy and very much interested in studying in the new library.
I hope this will improve their perfomance a great deal.
09-04-30 Flitiga barn och lärare ger resultat
Håkan: Extraundervisningen under påsklovet slutade i tisdags då eleverna uppnått det som planerats. David tycker de behöver lite ledigt inför nästa termin, som börjar på måndag. Så lovet blev bara några dagar vid påsk och några dagar vid 1:a maj som är en helgdag även i Kenya.
David hade ett möte med elever och lärare innan alla gick hem på sin ledighet. Alla var överens om att arbeta mycket hårt nästa termin.
Samson, rektorn i grannskolan Anyona Primary, berömde våra femteklassare för deras goda kunskaper i engelska. Han tycker de talar bättre engelska än hans egna elever ända upp till åttondeklassarna.
Det är bara att tacka för berömmet och uppmuntra lärarna att fortsätta det hårda arbetet som uppenbart ger de resultat vi alla önskar.
09-04-18 Våra barn får nu extraundervisning
Håkan: Våra barn får nu extraundervisning två veckor under lovet för att ta igen det man blev efter med i samband med lärarstrejken i januari. All skolpersonal är på plats och närvaron bland eleverna är i det närmaste 100%-ig.
Faith en av våra ”kökstanter” har blivit akut sjuk och tagits in på sjukhus I Oyugis där hon opererats i magen. Hon är nu hemma igen och på bättringsvägen. Föreningen har bidragit till 1/3 av vårdkostnaden ca 2 000:- eftersom hon i annat fall aldrig skulle kommit under vård.
I samband med regnperioden har planteringen i skolträdgården kommit igång och alla elever i klass 5 har en odlingslott var. Bilder kommer senare.
09-04-02 Skolavslutning för vinterterminen
Håkan: Fantastiskt att våra elever fortfarande presterar på topp även när det blir lite svårare i de högre klasserna. Det är också fantastiskt att våra lärare arbetar ett par veckor på lovet med att undervisa eleverna så att skolstrejken inte ska innebära några problem för dem när läsåret är till ända.
Duncan: The school has just closed today and it was a good one.
I am happy our best pupil in class five managed 401 marks out of 500. We are also resuming for tution on 14/04/09.
David: We are starting on Tuesday after Easter for tuition, we are also working on the books list for the library. The results are good and our kids sat for same exams with Anyona. Their no 1 is the same position with our position 17 pupil in grade five. We want to re-double our efforts in all disciplines including games, music and others.
09-02-28 Resan till Homa-Bay assessment centre