Our construction and teacher training plans for Gendit School took a hit last year as the coronavirus pandemic shut down the school for most of the year. The teachers and our staff picked up activities as soon as they could; four classrooms have now been renovated and the school has a perimeter fence securing the site to keep the pupils, buildings and other resources safe.
Teacher training has been ongoing since the start of the year and at the start of the second semester, we carried out a mid-year evaluation to review progress so far. Happily, there have been improvements in the quality of teaching, classroom environment and gender parity in the school. From next semester we will refocus our training, introducing a teacher award framework to motivate teachers to improve their methods.
As part of the evaluation we spoke with parents to see what difference they had seen: "Having this new school in our area, with new classrooms built in such an attractive building style means our children like the school very much and are much more interested in learning than previously. Even the older ones who are learning at a different school want to come and learn here if the school teaches grade 5 and above."
From September the school will provide grade 5 education and work will begin to construct facilities that mean it can expand up to grade 7 in the next year.
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