The Start of a New School Term

The Start of a New School Term

The 3rd term of 2010 has begun. There are always new challenges.
This term we have a wonderful, new teacher – Rachel Chanda. She is so
happy to be here. We are also switching teachers around a bit with
Erna Bosman leaving in a couple of weeks for Livingstone. Bruce
Malowa will be taking her class, and Rachel will be taking his. Also
Caroline Yambayamba was sick for over a week, so I have been teaching
her class the last 3 days. She was present today, but I had made all
the plans and continued teaching.

We now have the 3 preschoolers coming for the morning. Zandile is
teaching them. On the first day of this week, they said, "Why do we
have to go home in the afternoon? We want to stay all day." When
asked, "Why?" They replied, "We want to learn."

With all these changes, I anticipate needing to work with Zandile as
she makes plans for the preschoolers, to work with Rachel as I orient
her to the way we want to do things at our school, and with Bruce as
he begins the process of preparing some of the students for the Grade
7 exams next year and takes over Erna's class.