Tuesday, was a fun day in school!
I was glad to get back amongst the happy enthusiastic children. I’d promised to go into the classes I hadn’t already been in and wondered if I could do it during the one morning as my time was running fast! Well I did! Working solid from 9-1, phew, and it was another hot 🥵 day too!

P5 were working on ‘The greatest common factors’ of numbers but I wanted them to have a fun time making frisbees out of the paper plates left over from Poynton Golden Memories 7th birthday party shortly before I came to Uganda. They worked a treat. Only trouble was that P7 on the other side of the thin partition couldn’t concentrate on their science work, ‘refrigeration’, so they made them too!🤣 There were just enough plates if Ibra the head teacher gave his up! We let Grace the class teacher keep his. It’s always amused me that whatever activity I do in schools the class teacher and even the head teachers have to have a go! All the children even the strapping lads of 14/15 really enjoyed ‘shading’, putting all their concentration into this strange activity! The way they teach and the children learn in primary is in most schools by rote, repetitive, and purely to get the children promoted to the next class. Even those in the nursery just sit at their desk and listen, look at the blackboard and copy if able. No toys, paints, even paper to draw on!
The children gain little understanding of a subject and it’s so boring!🥱 Mind you, compare this with their agile abilities around home and the land and they are way ahead of our young people. Just watching young Norman and Gerry are proof of this. Anything mum and dad can do they’re practicing quite happily and efficiently. Still can’t believe Gerry is only just 2 years old!
When break-time came round nobody moved, they didn’t want to leave the classroom! I needed my water & banana break in a cooler spot so I more or less forced them out, including Teacher Grace! Morning break was called breakfast and those few with ‘a coin’ from home could buy snacks brought in by ladies from the village. Everyone would get a ‘free’ cooked meal at 1 o’clock.

After the activity was completed we went out to see if the colourful frisbees could fly! I did a pathetic demonstration then, WOW! It was brilliant! Frisbees flying here there and everywhere, including into trees, on to roof tops and through classroom windows! The rest of the school turned out to watch, with children from the younger classes jumping and squealing with joy, wonderful! Ibra did get to fly some too when he got to them first! 😊
I hope you scroll down and watch the videos of this activity especially the very last ones as it is guaranteed to bring a smile to your face, other than my pathetic demonstration that is!!