The First readers, Sunshine Books - by Joy Cowley

Thank you to the Renwick Church in Blenheim NZ,

via Renwick School, for the donation of these books.

They came in with Gloria last month,

and will be distributed to 7  locations tomorrow

Two classes at Macses School at Teouma area

Four classes at Seaside

One class at Pentecost Island

A great introduction to reading English.

THANK YOU  tumas. 

A wonderful selection of stories 

Many students are now attending the Special classes at Seaside Library .

Gloria is starting at 7.15 am , these are the early birds that arrive. 

They are really enjoying learning the Times Tables by CD songs. 

Test Time  

          An Accountant, is what this student wants to be, so he is working hard on his Maths.

arriving early,  and also spending time here after school.

  

A new group of 12 students, from Year 4 arrived for their first lessons today.

This adds to the 29 already attending from other classes 

41 in total. 

                                        Mr Willies daughter '' Aleisha ''  now 10 years
                                                      from SE Ambrym is in this group,
                                                 so she's excited to be in Gloria's class.
                   Our Wairau Parish team in 2008, were in the Village just before she was born.

The men came to assemble this 

 wash basin for Twin Cain's apartments 

Tomorrow we fit the taps & drain pipes

The rats have been having a feast on the power cable

and the gas line, which had to be repaired today.

Port Vila had a big week of rain last week.

But today the sun is out and everyone is happy

The Australian Navy have been in Port Vila 

for about 4 days, and today Saturday they are leaving

A 40' container arrived from Australia

inside were desk,chairs and other school items

The men delivered them to a new school out at Teouma area

The Macses School

Jonathan and the men unloading filing cabinets 

at Macses school

Mr Kim is building the framing for 3 new 

 classrooms at Macses school so the 

desk's and chairs have arrived a wee bit early. 

This is another of Neville's new projects 

adding a hand washing tub to Twin Cain's apartments

All the building materials for the washing tub project

We went to the Vila market to get some fruit & vegetables 

on the Quad bike tonight 

 Prices of the fruit & vegetables have dropped down now 

as they are more plentiful 

LENDING A HELPING HAND

This week the library teachers Mrs Mala, and Gloria are helping the 35 students in Class 3 

with their daily lessons in English and Maths. 

As the teacher is away. 

They are loving trying out some of Gloria's  resources. which are different

 from their classroom lessons.

Here is a listen and read book CD. 

Here we have some Word Detectives,  looking for word blends, and studying the 

 X Times table poster. 

and Gloria discovered she could do a Dental check when this student appeared to her.

On a visit to  the VCH Dental Department last week,  Gloria was pleased to see the Lino

 has been laid, which came in the container with the RSE men last year. 

Thanks to Floor Pride Blenheim for your 

kind and generous gift on the Lino 

Also three new chairs have been installed, and the clinic is up and running today helping Patients 

with their tooth problems 

There was enough Lino to lay in the hallway to the clinics. 

The Ni Vanuatu lino layers, did a wonderful job working this out and laying it. 

''WELL DONE '' and Thanks. 

The public works department 

have been building a new toilet block

at Independent park

This is one of the prisons in Port Vila 

Monday morning traffic problems in Vila

its NOT as bad as Auckland!!

We have mushrooms 

growing here in Port Vila

maybe the heat is not too hot for them

Mr Kim has completed his 

bush toilet at Macses school this week

This is the floor foundation for another 3 classroom at Macses school

which should be completed by September 2018

Mr Kim is preparing the wall framing for these classrooms

"the old way"

Now days in NZ you buy the framing already to go up.

Gloria came out to Macses school to have a look around

A team from Auckland are going to put some play ground

equipment in at this school at Etas area

we are going to get the long cut down soon

The Ford Ranger needed a clean 

so I got it cleaned at this is a car wash

It cost 600 vt  = NZ$7.90

I asked if it was a good business and they said yes its a very good business. 

its run by a group of ladies.

The Seaside Library is where Gloria has been working since returning from NZ  on the 19th May

The grass had been cut so it was a Great welcome entrance to the Library.

This is the new School sign which was erected and  officially uncovered, as they celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the opening of the School.

Gloria has set up a new classroom again,  in the woodwork section on the building, 

 separate from the Library room.

A special place for some Special Students.

The Pirate theme also followed her to the class. in the form of a SHIP 

Seaside students waiting to attend an English class 

Here the Class 2 girls are waiting to attend their scheduled Library Class visit

to return and select new books. 

Gloria now has a list of 29 Students, ranging from Yr2  to Yr 6 

who need help in  A - Z , Phonics, blends, times tables, Maths and Reading.

Mrs Mala, the Librarian is also helping with taking some students.

The  lunchtime  Gang

This is another very busy time,  as a lot of students come down

to have some lessons or stories with Gloria.

while another group spend time in the Library.  

There are some super talented, super  cool readers in this bunch.

Reading is about changing your voice to suit the story character

and having a good laugh...

Discussing the mornings programme and preparing for  the afternoon lessons.

The students like to help and tidy the class after their lesson. 

Today Gloria tested out a resource that Phil King had given her in NZ  to try in Vanuatu.

WORD DETECTIVE  Games 

English Language Teaching Resource

Todays lesson was on word blends.

                                             Its a new way of learning for these students.

We were able to make it fun. and they seemed to enjoy the class. 

Students from YR 2