Visit to UK by Upendo Teachers

Two teachers from Upendo Junior School, Miss Catherine Makonge and Ms Stella Muteshi, will be visiting Wadsworth Fields Primary School, Nottingham, UK. The visit is fully sponsored by the British Council to facilitate curiculum development exchange between our two schools.

During the visit, the two teachers will be hosted by Mrs Sally Bates, the School head teacher. They will familiarize themselves with the UK education system by attending lessons at Wadsworth and discussing curriculum issues with their counterparts there. They will also be in a position to address the key issues underlying our proposed curriculum exchange.

Besides visiting Wadsworth Fields Primary School, the two teachers will have a date with Ms Mari Hughes and Rebecca Peck in the School of English Studies, the University of Nottingham. It is hoped that while at the University, they will have the opportunity to meet with some Kenyan students there led by Mr Eric B. Masika, a Ph.D student at the University.

They arrive in London on 1st March and return back to Kenya ten days later.

A number of our friends in Nottingham have assured me that the two teachers will be looked after well. Thanks to Terry, Jane, Stephen, Caroline and Fiona for the continued support and for your willingness to see to it that Catherine and Stella are cmfortable, this being their vey first trip out of Kenya!

We wish the the two the very best and hope that they will come back full of ideas to better our partnerhsp with Wadsowrth Fields Primary School.