Last lap

The week has careered along at a fast pace and I am now coming up to my last day in Kosele for this visit. It’s been a very busy five or so weeks and, like this time last year, I am optimistic about the coming months - despite the intrusion of the election. The most rewarding part of the visit has been seeing our primary school teachers and pupils really taking the maths project to heart and putting a lot of effort into the lessons. I’ve been teaching some of the groups to push the training a bit more and am looking forward to seeing the progress that will be made in the second half of term.

Tomorrow the pupils will be staying at home as part of an extended half-term caused by the imminent election. It gives us a nice opportunity to conduct a detailed review of this term’s work in both schools as well as a chance to do some training with the secondary school teachers. This will be a particularly welcome chance to get to know them a bit better as a team. Having focused on the primary school for the last few weeks I am looking forward to getting the low down on our new students and sharing some new resources with their teachers.