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We talked about the government in Kenya and also how democracy runs in Njoro DEB.

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You have to work hard to achieve good things, King Lion told them.

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Millie: Mr JM, do you learn about global goals in Kenya?

JM Yes we do, it is very important.

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What message would you like Mr JM to take back to the children in Kenya?

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What message would you like Mr JM to take back to the children in Kenya?

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Grace: Be passionate, keep going and remember we are all a team.

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Do the children live near to the school. 

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Do the children live near to the school. 

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Some children do but others come from very far away. Some walk 6 or 7 miles to school.

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We are expecting El Niño rains. We have floods at the moment.

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Volleyball and dancing.

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What do the Kenyan children like in school?

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What do the Kenyan children like in school?

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Football! They support Manchester United!

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What are the children like in your school?

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What are the children like in your school?

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They are good students. They are polite and work hard.

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50, 60, 70! We have over 100 students in one class.

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We have a bigger site than Wincham. We don’t have a hard playground.

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We have health club, Bible club, some sports clubs. We also have the 4K club - the 4Ks are words that show we love agriculture.

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We have a Children’s Government. We have a president, deputy and ministers.

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This group focus on health and sanitation. They make sure we have clean water and keep the school clean. The children clean the school, including the toilets!

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Most children bring their own food. We feed some children. Usually rice and beans or ugali (made with maize flour). Ugali is a traditional Kenyan food staple.

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We have a few. In the children’s houses, very few have taps. They collect water from neighbourhood taps or the river.

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What do you enjoy most about being part of our team and being at our school? Isabella

Answer: Being in class and seeing your keenness to learn and seeing your inquisitive.

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How are you finding the difference in weather here?

Answer: It is horribly cold! No sweat!

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How many pupils do you have in your school this year? How many would be in a class of our age group? Lucas

Answer: Over 1350 children in school with 34 teachers. In a room, there are streams, so maybe 150/160 in a year. Maybe 55/65 in a class in smaller classrooms on benches.

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Do the children find it hard to concentrate in extremely hot weather? Lexi B

Yes! At times it is hot but not very hot in the classrooms. Some areas in Kenya are so hot that children can’t continue learning in the afternoon.

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What has been your favourite activity so far here in England? Harrison

Apart from visiting the school, visiting Tatton Park. It is rich with History and Tatton and Kenya have got Lord Egerton in common.

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What activities have you done here that you wouldn’t really do in Kenya? Archie

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Do your pupils learn/ speak English in school? Kiera

Yes. They learn English and they use Oxford English dictionaries. They start learning in English. As they progress, some of them can speak better English than you! The only difference is their pronunciation! It is called ‘mother tongue interference’.

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Were you excited to come over to England?

Very excited. It was a dream come true. Together we learn, grow and dream.

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Do you have high schools near to you?

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We have some concrete houses with corrugated metal roofs. They get very hot so some are made from wood with a grass or reed roof as they are cooler in very hot weather.

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Science

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I live about a 20km drive away.

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Yes we have certificates. We also give a badges to the best child in each subject after every test we do.

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Which school did you go to when you were a child? Jude S

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Which school did you go to when you were a child? Jude S

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I went to Nyuri Primary School, followed by Hyrax High School. I trained to be a teacher at St Mark's teacher training college.

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What toys did you play with when you were a child? Ariana

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What toys did you play with when you were a child? Ariana

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Lots of the toys I played with as a child, we made ourselves.

I had a vehicle made of wood with wheels made out of chopped up wood. I used to find big hill to race down in my vehicle.

I also used to model things out the clay from the river bed. We didn't have Playdough or plasticine.

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We have lots of children and adults at our school so we have to have our assemblies outside. There isn't enough room inside!

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What do you like to do in your spare time? Zachary

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What do you like to do in your spare time? Zachary

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I like to do lots of things.

I like to read story books, novels and the Bible. I love to play volleyball and go swimming whenever I can.

I also really enjoy listening to music and dancing along too!

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In your classroom do you use a whiteboard or chalkboard?

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In your classroom do you use a whiteboard or chalkboard?

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We use a chalk board and clean it with a duster!

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Corn, we grind to get flour, oogali! We eat it with fish, vegetables and meat.

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We have poetry in English and Kiswahili. We perform it.

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We don’t have a hall and they don’t have benches to sit on. Children stand outside.

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We eat our school dinners in school.

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There is a lot of rain in Kenya and some places are even flooded now.

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What is your most important school rule?

Respect for all.

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Do you have playtime equipment?

Yes. Skipping ropes, hula hoops and balls made by the children. Before Multiflex visited, we only have 3 or 4 balls in school made out of plastic bags tied together with string.

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We have a small and not famous football league in Kenya.

I support Liverpool.

(There was a lot of football talk after this revelation!)

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The first Europeans were told the highest mountain was called the Mountain of Ostrich in Kiswahili and because the first white msn couldn’t pronounce it, our biggest mountain became called Mount Kenya because that is what he could pronounce it as.

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The world is a global village. That is why I have come here. I learn from you, you learn from me. We work together using the Global Goals.

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It is 9.54 am here but Kenya is ahead by 3 hours!

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What is the biggest difference between Njoro and Wincham?

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What is the biggest difference between Njoro and Wincham?

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Class sizes - here 35 is the biggest, in Njoro you can have up to 75 children in a class. There are 175 Year 6 children - split into 3 classes.

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How different is your school to our school?

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How different is your school to our school?

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We don’t have a dining room - children eat on the field.
In Kenya we have 8 lessons a day. Each lesson 35 mins.
One teacher takes all the lessons.
Some children walk over 5km to school.
Your classes have electricity in every room - only a few of ours do.

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What was your dream as a child? Did you always want to be a headteacher?

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What was your dream as a child? Did you always want to be a headteacher?

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What surprised you most when you arrived here?

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What surprised you most when you arrived here?

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Joining our School Council meeting.

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We give them first aid and the take them to hospital.

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Kiswahili as first subject, then English.
Also learn agriculture, social studies. Home science - cooking and cleaning.
Everyone learns the same things.

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I like the rain but I don’t like being rained on!

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National assessment at Year 6 - grade 7-9, junior secondary school. 10-12 senior secondary school. Everyone moves up.
Different pathways. You can go to different schools for different careers.
Then colleges and universities. You follow your talent!

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How old are the children who attend Njoro?

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How old are the children who attend Njoro?

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The classes are called grades from nursery onwards and then the older children attend junior secondary school.

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We found out that school councillors are called school governors in Kenya. The pupils in Magpies think this would be a great idea!

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Some children who are disadvantaged have meals provided for them.

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We cook the meals on open stoves using wood or charcoal. There are three cooking stones to make a tripod and we cook rice, beans, maize and vegetables.

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The school day is from 8am until 5pm.

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Friday is sports day and everyone wears tracksuits.

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Hide and seek!

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I am a teacher.

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I teach and I monitor what is happening.

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Concrete, timber and iron sheets.

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Inside the school.

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It can be very hot and dusty but it can also be quite cold.

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We have some animals in school.

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Where do you get your water from? Irina 

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Where do you get your water from? Irina 

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We can get water from the tap and also from a rainwater collection.

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We have toy cars and also toys that other children have made out of different materials.