The group arrived and with in moments seemed to have got struck into planning and preparing lessons and activities for their time at the school. We Have now spent two days at the school at the the group are just being brilliant.

We’re now on day two of working at the school. The Eston Park group arrived, bravely struggled through their jet lag and got going at the school within twenty four hours! They’d all brought great resources with them and so we had an incredibly smooth first day. Of course there was the expected acclimatisation – more to the differences between English and Sri Lankan schools and the wild excitement of the children than the weather – but each set back was just dealt with and most groups reported back that they’d had really good days. The afternoons are taken up by an afterschool club that makes the morning’s classes seem tame, in which we run art, craft, drama games, storytelling, outdoor games (hot work) and computer skills. Lovely things have emerged from the art/craft rooms and very sweaty people from the outdoor games area but everyone seems to be having a great time- kids and group alike.
Today followed the same pattern, classes in the morning and club in the afternoon. We had a slightly larger group in the afternoon (which is optional, so we must have done something right the day before!) and we had split into more groups in the morning to enable us to teach nearly all the children at once – very skilful timetabling work on Radhika’s part. This meant new groups, new activities but still the same reaction: nice work and lots and lots of giggling.

Katherine