School time

We were introduced to St Patricks Primary School, the local school 5 minutes from Sanchat, on Friday 25^th . The headteacher kindly introduced us to each of the 8 classes (containing an average of 50 pupils!). 54 Sanchat children attend St Patricks so it was very nice to see a friendly face amongst the 800 other pupils (yes that’s right 800!!!)  

Break time started and we attracted quite a crowd.  The children were fascinated by us and wanted to hold our hands, touch our hair and stroke our skin - it was CRAZY!!!

 We sang the Banana song, Boom Chica Boom and Hokey Cokey on repeat, along with playing Duck Duck Goose ( an absolute hit) every break time we spent there.

We were back at the School on Monday 28^th. All of the teachers were in a meeting and so we were split between two classes straight away.  In true guiding spirit we pulled it together to run a maths and an English lesson with a maths shoot out, hangman, count down and Pictionary - as well as many songs of course! I think we could all say we were rather relieved to hear the lunch bell! 

We returned to school again on Thursday 31^st and all of us really we enjoyed the teaching experience.  We taught for an hour and a half, which the children all seemed to love.  Hangman particularly went down a hit: when the last letter was filled everyone was jumping out of their seats cheering (honestly looked like Kenya had just won the world cup)! 

Overall, the school a brilliant experience and it is really amazing to see so many children focused and excited to learn!!