Saturday 11 April 2009



This was part of the training we have been doing for the teachers. We were in a very remote school which took 1 hour to reach on a moto up the dirt tracks. The teachers were absolutely lovely and they joined in with everything we asked them to do from "What time is it Mr Wolf" to being angleometers ie making different sorts of angles with their arms. Apart from making rice sacks with them which we wrote on in marker pens to give all the vocabulary you need to teach maths in english, we did all sorts of things which gave them ideas for different ways of teaching their lessons. Everything has to be free because there are no resources. So we cut up old mattresses and made dice and we collected bottle tops so that the children had something to count with. In this picture the teachers are arranging themselves from the smallest to the tallest. The lady at the back is called Yvette and she was a great sport - she got really competitive when we were playing addition and subtraction bingo. But they were all lovely people and so grateful to us for going and doing the training. The more remote the schools the less help they get, so although Michael and I had very sore backsides from riding up the dirt tracks on the back of motor bikes for an hour it was more than worth it. We were really sad to say goodbye to them and I hope that they manage to use some of the ideas we gave them.

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