We really want some gossip to spread… and it’s slowly happening! Gossip about children’s reading. Today the director rang me from one of the leading private schools in town to find out their results for our reading test. She said she can’t wait to find out and is very competitive. I think she told her teachers she would buy a bull for them if they are number 1 (sadly they just missed out). I have rang a few teachers and head teachers to tell them of their schools’ good results. And people are talking! We want this gossip to spread. We want to change the narrative of teaching and learning in Gulu and further afield in Uganda.
READ for Life
Photo gallery
Dan, Myron and Jody
Earlier days and happier times with these pigs… before swine fever.
Our brave Myron!
A demonstration lesson with P1.
Jody with P1 class teachers and the lovely P1 class (not all 142 present, but many of them!)
Our first set of published phonics readers!
Look who found a big rat!
School classroom built from church ruins.
Always a teacher… helping out children with some extra homework during a teaching visit to South Sudan.
A P1 pupils’ written work on a slate during a phonics lesson.
Dan and Myron on the road…
Teacher training…
Dan, JB and Bear.
Children putting into practise what their teachers have learnt – practical activities!
Jody teaching student teachers at the local Primary Teacher’s College about how to read aloud
On a refreshing weekend away to Sipi Falls.
Jody sharing at the local primary teacher’s college on reading fluency.
Sharing some laughs over reading games.
Dan and Myron after a bike ride.
Joanne and Dan
Hippo’ing around at mini golf.
Using local materials for teacher training…
Anyone for a game of football? There’s no electricity in this village in South Sudan but there is a generator and football hall – what more do you need?
Dan and Myron at Fort Porta.The Recreation Project
Dan and Jodes... in Gulu, Uganda 
That’s awesome Jode! Now for the sake of excellent standards…of my own…and because I know you too desire standards of excellence. I want to explore with you is it… rang or rung…both communicate past tense…but which is the right one to use??? Any ideas??? Cheers Jen
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Hey Jen, thanks for the comment. And you got me thinking. I should have rang you so we could discuss it 🙂 But if I rang you, then that would cost a lot of money!
You are right, both rang and run or past tense, but basically you write rung if you put has or have in front of it…
I find this site quite helpful sometimes: http://www.grammarbook.com/newsletters/041211.htm