Tuesday 6th to Friday 9th August- School and football.

On Tuesday I implemented a new seating plan in order to see if I could further help the children in my class who were struggling. Thankfully my class had been very well behaved so I wasn’t moving anyone due to talking or behaviour issues. In maths I continued with tally charts and then went into bar charts for the rest of the week. On Wednesday I did a maths exam for the class which involved filling out a picture graph and then converting it into a tally chart and bar graph as well as answering several questions on the data raised. I had previously done a similar but easier test last week and wanted to compare the results and see if the class were improving. In last week’s exam there had been a difference of 16 marks between the highest and lowest results, while Wednesday 7^th’s exam had a difference of 10 marks between highest and lowest and was a more difficult exam. On Friday before my maths lesson, the other teachers at the school brought in teacher shirts for us to wear at School like the rest of the staff. Friday’s maths lesson was mainly revision and recapping of the topic in preparation for the coming exams next week. 

Some of my class posing for a photo.

In English I continued teaching the future tense by getting the class to complete sentences that I would write on the board and by writing a letter to someone detailing what they are going to do in the summer.

I put the class back into their science groups in Tuesday’s science lesson and got them to continue for half the lesson on their posters of cockroaches and ticks before bringing in Katie and Siobhan to judge their work. Each group took their turn to stand at the front of the class and display their poster as well as explaining to the rest of us what they had done. When they had finished telling us about their posters, myself and the other volunteers would ask them questions, testing them on their work before judging which group had done the best and giving them stars. For the rest of the week I continued with work on vectors such as Lice and mosquitos.

Me, Kya and Sioghan posing in our school shirts.

MIDFIELD BATTLE!

On Wednesday after school we went to a football pitch in Kanungu town where the VU team would be playing two games of football, one against the youth team of the area and the other against the proper senior community team. The youth game lasted 20 minutes or so which we lost before the proper match kick off. We started the game pretty well and by half time were 1-0 up and soon after half time we were 2-0 up, but were coming under a lot of pressure. We conceded 10 minutes before the end to make it 2-1 before we had a free kick near their area. The last thing I remember was jumping for the ball when it was knocked into the box before I apparently got punched in the side of the head by the opposition goalie and then having to dazedly leave the pitch for a subbing. The opposition kept piling on the pressure and finally after 6 minutes of stoppage time (was supposed to be 2) we conceded again with what had to be the last kick of the game to make it 2-2.