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  • Some P1 (kindergarten/reception) children borrowing books from the library. Break through! They have learnt some sounds in phonics and are now [...]

    Reading breakthrough!

    15/08/2013
  • Note to self: the next time a pupil slips me a note in the middle of a lesson don’t assume it is letter asking for me to be a penfriend and [...]

    Don’t assume…

    08/08/2013
  • Look at line three: I think I need to work on my explanations…

    Taking things literally…

    05/08/2013
  • I wrote the below poem for the school’s zonal highly competitive Music Dance and Drama (MDD) Festival – perhaps it is as highly [...]

    The Innocent Child…

    03/08/2013
  • For the past two days I have taught all of the second year student teachers at the Gulu primary teaching college phonics – and had a ball! [...]

    Teaching student teachers…

    17/07/2013
  • Finally got the visas in our hands! This little bit of paper has caused us a lot of travel, time, agony and frustration! Thanks for all your [...]

    Visas: got ’em!

    17/07/2013
  • Instead of a car pool….

    School run…

    16/07/2013
  • Local custom here is for visitors to stand up in church and introduce themselves. This normally occurs after praise and worship/aerobics for God [...]

    No need for an alter call!

    01/07/2013
  • Teaching English to adults this morning: I had to really hold in my laughter while looking at a student’s book. For vocabulary I was teaching [...]

    The flatulating farmer….

    21/06/2013
  • First part of visa approved from NGO board. Dan heading to Kampala again tomorrow to pick that bit up. Step 2 is immigration, hopefully that is [...]

    Visa: part 1 done!

    28/05/2013

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