Extra Mile August 2019

News of the severe flooding in Freetown reminds us of the struggles students, staff, volunteers and builders have to make to deliver Extra Mile’s vision of a high quality education for poor and vulnerable children.

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Volunteers have been training staff in providing active learning strategies for our students. Here we see our Express class students participating in Active Reading to improve their literacy skills.

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Our latest volunteer Lauran Trumper got down to work quickly with staff revisiting work on increasing challenge in the students’ work using Bloom’s taxonomy.

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Preparing the building for floating the concrete roof later this week. Taking advantage of some rare better weather in the rainy season.

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