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Maths is probably the subject our students find the hardest. Unfortunately, in the past, their maths teachers have rushed onwards in a bid to ‘finish the course’ without checking that students have understood the basics. So to help our weaker students catch up, we’ve been running free Extra Maths lessons before school. We’ve tried to … Continue reading Big leap in maths results

Government schools in Nepal typically close the day before exams, so that teachers can spend the day preparing for them (sorting exam papers, seating plans etc). They call this ‘shift planning’ (I still don’t know why). Shift planning takes no more than an hour, so when we joined the school we did not see how we … Continue reading A sign of progress?

Our students recently wrote a story about their school. One of the prompts for the story was to include a few sentences on ‘the best thing about their school’. And the most common response? The best thing about our school is the teaching.  We said all along that our school improvement model is all about … Continue reading The best thing about our school is…

It’s easy to criticise the government, but here’s a good idea. Nepal can suffer from power cuts for 18 hours a day, which means many of our children cannot study at home in the evening because they have no light. So the local government has distributed free solar lamps to all our Class 10 students … Continue reading Here’s a good idea

Our school has made great progress on lots of fronts, but the quality of our teaching has still not improved enough. So we held a staff training day on Friday to focus on this, and we did not share one new idea. Why? Because the teachers are not yet implementing the ideas we have already … Continue reading No new ideas were shared at our school staff training day