Great news from Kafuro

Congratulations to everyone in P7 at Kafuro Primary School who took their PLE (Primary Leaving Examinations) at the beginning of the summer. Mr Thembo contacted me to say that there was a 100% pass rate this year. Despite the challenges of lockdown due to Covid, when the P7 pupils were able to return to school, they were able to access small focused group teaching as they were the only year group allowed back into the school at the time. Congratulations to all of the pupils and to the staff.

Results from Kafuro

Unfortunately, all schools in Uganda are still closed at the moment due to lockdown. The news I have been given suggests that schools will not reopen until such a time as all teachers are fully vaccinated. The UK is doing its bit to help with this.

https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/special-reports/how-uganda-neighbours-compare-in-jabs-for-covid-3528298

Mr Thembo has sent photos of a very quiet school campus

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We will keep readers up to date with news from Kafuro over the coming weeks.

Kafuro gets ready to return to school

After the best part of seven months without children attending school in Uganda due to Covid 19, the children in P7 are going to be the first children returning to school next Monday 15th October. This significant time away from school has been made worse by the fact that the IT infrastructure is not good enough to support remote learning. The Government were making some promises about sending a television and radios to every village so that the children could access some learning, but this would not be on a scale that everyone would benefit.

P7 are the equivalent of Year 6 (although some of the children are older) and they have to take their Primary Leaving Examinations in November (their equivalent of SATs). Needless to say, they have a great deal of learning to catch up on.

Mr Thembo and his staff ave been busy making the site secure to minimise the risk of infection. This has included for the first time, a barrier preventing open access to the school.

There is now a barrier at the entrance to Kafuro Primary School

Uganda Day 10: 2019

Resorting back to my usual French toast at Tembo for breakfast this morning, I was ready for a busy day ahead at Kafuro. 

Ronnie drove Paul and I (very smoothly, the complete opposite to Joffrey) to Kafuro. Shakilah met us at the school, her first visit there, but upon meeting Stephen she realised he was her old teacher from P6/7 for English! It’s a small world, even here in Uganda. Shakilah was shown around the school with Paul whilst I taught my final lesson to P7. We tackled sanitation which most children believed to be keeping the environment clean but, with discussion, they were able to connect to the disposal of waste, including that of humans. I explained about the challenges girls face in education due to having to collect water and carry out other chores which the children understood well, collecting water for their families themselves. Having a tap with drinking water at school has enabled them to focus more on learning. This is as a result of previous fundraising by Liss pupils.  

Lesson finished, it was straight to the kitchen to cook pizza for all of the school! Assistant chef, Paul, was very handy to have around today! He really knows his stuff about pizza. The children all partook in the making of the dough, mixing it all together and getting very sticky in the process which was hilarious. Whilst the dough rose, we made the sauce. Children chopped tomatoes and small onions grown just across the road and mixed with some water which they reduced down over the fire. It was a lot cooler today outside but when I went into the kitchen it was too hot to handle! 

As the pizzas cooked, Paul and I joined the other teachers for lunch which was delicious as ever. The children were fantastic at minding the pizzas while we ate to make sure they didn’t burn! 

When we had finished lunch, it was time for the school to try the pizza. Each pizza was cut into about 40 tiny slices so P3-7 all got a change to try. Their faces were a picture as it looked like chapati but certainly didn’t taste the same! It was heart warming to watch them try something so different to their normal cuisine. 

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Then the heavens opened and rain poured down, the storm had been in the air all morning. At a break in the downpour, there was a chance to watch the reigning champion tag rugby team practice. They were fantastic and showed great sportsmanship and team work just like the children of Liss. 

Finally, and sadly, it was time to say goodbye. I popped into P6 and P7 but the other classes were having lessons so I didn’t want to disrupt. The whole school then came to their windows as we drove off, beaming smiles on their faces and waving enthusiastically. I felt very special and privileged to have spent the last few days at such a fantastic school which I am proud Liss Junior School is twinned with. 

Current update from Kafuro

Greetings to all our friends in the World,

We thank everyone who spares his precious time to read our blogs and witness from what we are learning together.

Liss community, our special friends, we are proud of all the activities you do.

On an assembly, Mr. Yowasi Byaruhanga has been updating about progress Liss Junior School has making both in studying about Uganda and sport. In sports, a hand of applause to Toby and all other Liss participants who have continued to uplift Liss Junior School’s name.

All of us at Kafuro Primary School, we are very lucky to study about England and our friends.  In addition, we have learnt a lot from you about even our own country and even Africa from our interaction with you.

We are training very hard for friendly matches with schools in the conservation cup,
We are the Tag Rugby champions for the last two years. We are training very hard to be the best champions in this year.

In weather, we have been experiencing a dry spell for almost two and a half months. February is usually a rainy month but this time the conditions has changed.
In this, Mr. Yowasi Byaruhanga has alerted us again about the facts about global warming and weather changes due human activities. Most of our school children have been mobilized to plant at least one tree every month.
Buying seedlings is far better and quicker than making a nursery bed.
We have selected a representative for every class to coordinate the process of all our pupils in school planting a tree every month and clearing and promoting the environmental conservation.

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Written by Primary Six and seven – guided.

PRIMARY LEAVING EXAMINATION

To all our Linked Schools

With all the hard work and good preparations your teachers have done,

The power of the Almighty God is ready to bless you with SUCCESS in your Primary Leaving Examinations to be done tomorrow Monday and Tuesday.

Best of our lovely wishes to you you all and we know you are very ready and bright to make it.

Bless you all with Success.