Yanamilla Primary School update 2

Last Thursday and Friday saw the culmination of the Clean Classroom competition at the school. On Tuesday we'd been to the school to check that each class understood the competition that we'd set up the week before and to remind them that we were coming back on Thursday to judge the classrooms, and then for the prize-giving on the Friday ...

We were really pleased with the response! Every class, except for the Head's class had made a real effort to tidy up and improve the cleanliness of their classroom. As for the Head, well he hadn't bothered, and what was worse he wasn't even there that day, so the 1st grade A class was left all alone - rather sad. He really should be sacked!!

We went round to each class and asked them to present what they had done and we took notes and photos. We had also been asked to judge pre-primary separately, which was fine, but we had only reckoned on 1 main prize for the winning classroom and another small prize for the winning teacher - budget didn't really stretch to 2 lots of prizes - we were going to need to be creative!

Here are some of the highlights ...

5th & 6th grade - new rubbish bin and tidied teacher's area

5-year-olds - clean desks and tidied back of classroom

5-year-olds - new wash and bin area

3- and 4-year-olds - new rubbish bin

4th grade - new garden area

4th grade - new wash area and bins for different rubbish

3rd grade - tidied-up classroom

3rd grade - cleanliness wall display

1st grade A - new wash and bin area

Back at the CCS house, after a lot of careful checking against various criteria and looking at the 'before' and 'after' photos, we eventually came to a decision and awarded 1st prize to the 5 year-olds for pre-primary and to the 3rd-grade class for primary. With the donations from my parents and their church, plus a bit thrown in fom me, we had enough to buy a lockable cupboard as first prize, and for pre-primary very luckily for us Andrea's books from Leo Paper had arrived the day before, so we used all the Spanish books suitable for 5-year-olds plus various crayons, pencils, etc. that other volunteers had contributed, to make up a box of goodies as the last-minute pre-primary prize. We also had a few more donations from Ayacucho, giving us enough money to buy a small present for each winning teacher, plus lollipops for each of the winning children.

See next update, coming soon, for the very grand prize-giving ceremony ...