One of the things that kept coming up last week was an objection to the games because the classrooms were so packed. But as you saw in the videos for most of the schools it was a bit of an excuse. However today we had so many kids packed in one tiny room! Just looking…

Talk about chalk and cheese, this morning’s school was 100% different from yesterday. It’s actually the school whose teachers I spoke to on Friday and was very impressed by. However they weren’t putting anything into practice. They’d been doing the songs, and the kids liked them, but they hadn’t been teaching the meaning of the…

I went to this school before, it’s the one covered in flies that I compared to Pompeii, not in its heighday, but how it looks now. Here’s the street it’s in: And I found out why there are flies everywhere, this is the building that joins the school building: Apparently the school used to be…

So much was going on today I’ve split the blog into 3 posts! ——————————————— Japan should be very worried. Last time I went round our Indian schools the kids were hesitant, speaking in whispers if at all and the teachers were just doing rote learning. You asked a kid a question and you got no…

As we have very, very tight budgets in the India schools, the traditional “Doctor Doctor” game (e.g. here’s the Funky Mummy version) can’t be used as we need to make the games use as few materials as possible and if possible zero materials. So here’s the Simply Doctor Doctor Game: 1.One child comes to the…