A typical day
As a school liaison officer, I’m based at the New Day Model School in Bulanda and my day starts with the reading intervention programme early in the morning once the learners have arrived in school. The programme aims to improve learners’ literacy skills and teaches the blending of sounds to help form words, which later leads to the formation of sentences and makes a learner able to read a storybook. The flashcards, storybooks and other reading resources used in the programme are provided by the organisation.
the hardest thing...
…is when a 70-year-old student joins the adult literacy class and they don’t know how to hold a pencil, yet have to learn how to read and write. I really feel for them but pray and believe that they will learn in time.
The best thing...
…is the happiness I feel seeing children as young as five reading stories and explaining what they have read to their peers as a result of the reading intervention programmes. It’s nice when young children from a rural school express themselves in English, both at home and in school, and the programme has resulted in higher enrolment at the school. It’s also good to see that the teachers have improved their teaching skills as a result of the teacher development trainings on offer.
LET’S TEACH
We support teachers with development training and school leader training, plus run adult literacy classes.
This is a feature from Issue 15 of Charitable Traveller.