Our thanks and encouragement to Fox School, in Notting Hill Gate London, and Headteacher Paul Cotter who are backing R2T this academic year. After an assembly launch this Monday Fox are holding an International Food Evening on Friday 23rd September with proceeds going to our charity.
Hattie Wilson and Fiona Measures, two senior UK educators and teacher trainers, join R2T this summer. Hattie and Fiona will be based in Gujarat leading on teacher training and curriculum development.
Our thanks to David Sellens, Headteacher, and students at Thomas Jones Primary School in Ladbroke Grove who have fundraised for us and provided £200 to support our work.
Many thanks to Oundle School, in Peterborough, where students and members of the community raised £1000 for R2T following a collection at Oundle School Chapel.
Ophelia Lee, along with her school friends, held a birthday party with a difference to support R2T. Following a visit, with her parents, to see our operations in India, Ophelia recreated one of our classrooms. She used some Gujarati teaching resources and of course wore a salwar kemeez, in order to share our work with her peers. Thanks Ophelia.
A warm welcome to our 8 new teacher trainers who have joined the team in India and are helping to train our 140 tribal teachers. Their work will ensure that all of our teachers are receiving high quality teacher training, once a week, at the Tejgadh academy.
Our Education Managers have completed a curriculum for Maths for K level and Level 1. They are currently working on compiling lesson plans so that each objective in this curriculum has an aligned lesson plan. When this piece of work is completed (End July 2011) a curriculum will be in place with lesson plans that cover a 2 year cycle.
Our Education Managers, Olivia and Ellie, welcomed the next 4O local teachers into our training programme. These teachers will work in pairs to staff the new schools operated by our partner Bhasha. Our Director of Operations and Education, together with the Founder of Bhasha have received confirmation that the Indira Gandhi National Open University will accredit our training into a Diploma and Degree in Tribal Education – a great result for our local teachers.
Reach to Teach celebrated with our partner NGO, Bhasha, as our funding opened the 58th school in Gujarat, reaching over 2000 children.
John Towers joins us, dividing his time between London and Indian operations leading on education strategy and management.