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…

In India we’ve also put small computer rooms in all the schools. There is a very famous ICT professor in charge, but we went in today and it was chaos. With no teachers allowed to supervise, the kids were watching Tom & Jerry or playing GT Rally, some computers had the fronts bashed in (they…

Tons of stuff going on today and meetings which I’d love to blog about but can’t! So here’s a video of an Indian breakfast for you.

You’ve really got to admire the Indian teachers. Today was spent going through the feedback on the GE materials and they’d really thought about it and really gone into a lot of detail. The good points the teachers and administrators were surprised by were: 1) The kids are really enjoying it. 2) The parents and…