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Early last year we brought you news about the
science and electronics teaching kits, donated to Gambian schools by
a Horsham sixth form college, the College of Richard Collyer (Collyer's).
(see news
item) Collyer's has Beacon Status
for Science and is working on several initiatives, such as teaching
units and resources for GCSE Electronics, Physics, Biology, Geology
and General Science. (See Collyer's website)
We also told you how an American volunteer teacher, Kim Pilmer, took charge
of a second Science Kit and organised a Science Fair for children on
the North bank of the River Gambia. (see
news item)
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Joe Brock is Head of Science at Collyer's and was responsible for
these kits. He has now developed a book for teaching Science in The
Gambia, which is
accompanied by a resource kit consisting of items that are
relatively inexpensive and readily available in the UK, but not
necessarily in The Gambia. Joe, together with Pippa and Ian, and
others from Collyer's and Pageant are off to The Gambia on 9
February. They will be taking out copies of the book and kits of
equipment to 40 schools. Joe will be running 5 days of seminars to
show Gambian teachers how to deliver their curriculum with some
practical input, which should make the students a lot more
enthusiastic about their Science lessons.
Last year's experience shows that the teachers are very keen to use
these kits and the children are very keen to learn. Up till now, the
children have been taught 'chalk and talk' most of the time. Joe's new book
contains 73 experiments, and the kits have been individually
packaged for each of the 40 schools.
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packing the science kits |
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report on science seminars in The
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