Student Activities 2

We invited our 'Ugandan Family' for a meal to celebrate the successful end to their teaching practice. We went to the hotel up the road and enjoyed a good meal followed by Italian ice cream down at the Italian cafe!! Lovely!!

Rob and I helped to finance an educational excursion for some students, something children and students here have very little experience of.

We arranged a visit to the museum in Kampala which is a bit old fashioned and 'tired' but has some interesting exhibits about the culture and history of East Africa. Then we went to the Entebbe Wildlife Education Centre which was the old zoo but they are trying really hard to develop open spaces where the animals can be seen in a more natural environment. The Colobus monkeys above are free to roam. The students seemed to have fun and say they learned. I will see when they hand in the assignment I set on how educational visits support learning.


This is the Dean of Students who came with his son who was not very impressed with the donkey ride!!

Student Activities

The staff at college were asked to attend a workshop on module writing. A bit late really as we were expected to hand in our completed modules several weeks ago! Apparently they are to assist other colleges to write their modules. As my teaching time here now is so short I had said to the Principal that I would not attend. I also asked her if the Diploma class could work with me to present a workshop to all the college students on Inclusive Education in Uganda. 'Oh, yes!' she said enthusiastically, 'You could do it on Friday while we are all away at the module writing workshop.' So with 3 days to prepare they worked to prepare teaching charts and I worked with the certificate students to rehearse some role plays to illustrate all the categories of special needs pupils. All the staff were away (only Brother Vincent - Vice-Principal and me left in college) so I was very unsure many students would even attend! However after Mass we began, we didn't even let them go for break incase they disappeared!! To my delight there were a good number of students and they stayed until we finished around one o'clock!

It turned out to be very successful with many students saying they had learned a lot. I did some follow up with some of my classes this week and they do seem to have a better understanding of how Uganda is encouraging inclusion and the many challenges with huge class sizes and lack of qualified staff. What impressed me was the developing confidence and ability of the student teachers presenting to a big audience.