Queen Elizabeth Parks Project Schools' Blog
This is the site where all schools involved in the Queen Elizabeth Parks Project in both the UK and Uganda can share their learning
The project to install doors and shutters at Kafuro on the junior block and the staff accommodation block is now complete. Mr Thembo has sent photo and expressed his gratitude to the pupils and parents at Liss Junior School.
Mr Thembo also reported that more year groups are returning to school. P4 and P5 started just after Easter and P7 have sat their Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) which are their equivalent to SATs.
From all the pupils and staff at Liss Junior School, we would like to wish the P7 pupils at Kafuro and all the other QEPP schools in Uganda every success in their Primary Leaving Examinations this coming week. We are well aware of the magnitude of these examinations and also know how hard all of you will have worked over the current academic year. You will all be in our thoughts this week!
Greetings to all our friends in Kafuro and thank you to to Moris for organising the Kafuro blog post with all the details of what is happening at Kafuro this term.
We started our new term at Liss on September 5th. Fortunately for Liss pupils, they did not have to clean the school compound as our site manager, Mr Haycock, does a brilliant job of doing this – the children came back in September to a clean and sparkling school. Our first few days at school were spent on a specific area of study under a scheme known as Commando Joe. Year 6 studied a woman called Nancy Wake, who help British troops escape from occupied France during the Second World War and also sabotaged German operations. Year 5 studied a British astronaut called Tim Peake who went in to space for six months three years ago.
This term our focus is on history throughout the school. Year 6 are studying the Ancient Greeks; Year 5 – other Ancient civilizations, Year 4 are learning about the Anglo-Saxons; and Year 3 are studying Britain from the Iron Age to the Bronze Age. From January, Year 6 will be studying Uganda and will be learning about the geography of Uganda as well as a specific focus on Kafuro Primary School. Mr Stanley will be sharing a film on this blog that he made when he visited Semuliki National Park, and will gave some questions for children in both schools to answer.
The children at Liss are busy fundraising towards either draining the existing latrines at Kafuro or enabling the school to buy some more. We have already raised nearly 500,000UGX and many of our pupils are organising cake sales to raise further funds.
Mr Stanley has also arranged for a replacement rain gauge to be sent to Kafuro in the next couple of weeks so that both schools can accurately share their weather data.
We look forward to receiving questions from our friends at Kafuro about hotels, dictionaries and security. We are also very interested to hear about your environmental studies as Liss Junior School has just set up an eco – council and has some big plans to improve our school environment.
Finally, our harvest festival takes place on Friday and we will share with you some of the topics that we are presenting in the coming days. We were shocked at the results of some of our research!
Good morning to all our friends and supporters who read and comment on this blog.
Our term opened on 17th Sept 2018,
We have always opened by cleaning our compound every first day of the new term.
We would like to hear about what you as children at Liss Junior school do on the first day Of every term
We are writing to set a number of activities we can share in this term’.
We as Primary Six we have two topics which we have to cover this term.
The following topics are our topics for term three.
We like term three very much as it ends the year and we go for Christmas
During this term our teachers write good reports to end the year and we like to see ourselves promoted to the next classes.
As Primary Five, we also have two topics in English
In peace and security, we study about how to keep our environment safe and look at the importance of different members of our community and security agents who among others include the police and the army.
For us in Primary Seven, We did our mock examination and have been very busy for the rest of the holiday studying to finish all our revision in time.
In this term we plan to have our final examinations. We call them Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE).
We shall be doing PLE at the very beginning of November, we start with a briefing scheduled on 2nd November 2018, this includes telling us how we have to behave during examinations.
It also helps us to prepare ourselves very early for the next week, so that we do not have to organise ourselves on the morning when we have exams the same day.
Then writing of our papers begin on 5th November and 6th
We have always taken four papers: two each day for two days.
We are looking forward to knowing what you will be learning about for your new term
We are happy to receive rangers coming to our school. good work between schools and the park promote conservation.
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