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- Dec 27, 2007
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In the past few months we have been liaising with a school in North Devon who have been involved with a project in Tanzania.
The Head Teacher got in touch with us and asked if there was anything that we could do to help them.
I hope you agree, that after reading the below from the Head Teacher, that this was a very worthy cause.
Projects like this can only happen because of your generosity and support. Thank you!
Thank you Robert Eaton Memorial Fund
This Easter teachers from Appledore School, located in small fishing village in North Devon, will travel to Lilunghu School in Tanzania. Lilunghu School is in Mtwara (almost so far south in Tanzania it’s in Mozambique), a very deprived part of East Africa. The purpose of their visit is to support the teachers at Lilunghu School with improving the quality of maths and English teaching for the children to improve their life chances. The children, aged 3-11, are taught in classes of over one hundred, have to walk over three miles to school in very hot conditions and if they don’t pass the test when they are in the final year of their primary education there education stops.
When we initially visited the school to find out how we could help we saw how passionate the children were about sport. We were privileged to be invited to a football and netball match played by the two school teams against their ‘local’ school. Over 300 of the pupils walked the four miles to this school to support their school and the song they sang from the touchline, once their side started winning, was ‘We have nothing, but we are happy’. This solidarity, coupled with us noticing how those children who were lucky enough to own a pair of football boots only wore one by choosing to let a teammate wear the other, inspired us to try and help with widening the children’s opportunity to become involved in sport.
Sadly, our trip to support their teaching of football, rugby and netball in February had to be cancelled at very short notice due to unseasonably heavy and unseasonably early rains that literally washed the playing field away. We are now rearranging the trip for August, once the playing field is returned to a playable condition, when a secondary school PE teacher will join us. It is for this trip that the Robert Eaton Memorial Fund’s support has been so, so important. With your grant of £1000 we have been able to purchase enough bibs, pumps, cones, footballs, netballs, rugby balls and tag rugby tags and belts for classes of up to 120 children to be taught each of these sports at any one time. At present, the school owns only one football and one netball! The equipment is out there waiting for us to arrive to get going with the next exciting stage of this project. Thank you so very, very much for enabling this to happen. – please keep your eyes and ears out for the photographs and stories to follow…
Thanks again
Jeremy Cooper, Headteacher, Appledore School
The Head Teacher got in touch with us and asked if there was anything that we could do to help them.
I hope you agree, that after reading the below from the Head Teacher, that this was a very worthy cause.
Projects like this can only happen because of your generosity and support. Thank you!
Thank you Robert Eaton Memorial Fund
This Easter teachers from Appledore School, located in small fishing village in North Devon, will travel to Lilunghu School in Tanzania. Lilunghu School is in Mtwara (almost so far south in Tanzania it’s in Mozambique), a very deprived part of East Africa. The purpose of their visit is to support the teachers at Lilunghu School with improving the quality of maths and English teaching for the children to improve their life chances. The children, aged 3-11, are taught in classes of over one hundred, have to walk over three miles to school in very hot conditions and if they don’t pass the test when they are in the final year of their primary education there education stops.
When we initially visited the school to find out how we could help we saw how passionate the children were about sport. We were privileged to be invited to a football and netball match played by the two school teams against their ‘local’ school. Over 300 of the pupils walked the four miles to this school to support their school and the song they sang from the touchline, once their side started winning, was ‘We have nothing, but we are happy’. This solidarity, coupled with us noticing how those children who were lucky enough to own a pair of football boots only wore one by choosing to let a teammate wear the other, inspired us to try and help with widening the children’s opportunity to become involved in sport.
Sadly, our trip to support their teaching of football, rugby and netball in February had to be cancelled at very short notice due to unseasonably heavy and unseasonably early rains that literally washed the playing field away. We are now rearranging the trip for August, once the playing field is returned to a playable condition, when a secondary school PE teacher will join us. It is for this trip that the Robert Eaton Memorial Fund’s support has been so, so important. With your grant of £1000 we have been able to purchase enough bibs, pumps, cones, footballs, netballs, rugby balls and tag rugby tags and belts for classes of up to 120 children to be taught each of these sports at any one time. At present, the school owns only one football and one netball! The equipment is out there waiting for us to arrive to get going with the next exciting stage of this project. Thank you so very, very much for enabling this to happen. – please keep your eyes and ears out for the photographs and stories to follow…
Thanks again
Jeremy Cooper, Headteacher, Appledore School
