a quick note from volunteer Lisa Becker who is currently in Uganda, running workshops with the teaching staff and students at Kagunga primary school on how to make the most out of the learning landscapes.

"what a success!!!! day two of the workshops was really, really brilliant and despite me forgetting about the non-existence of the internet in Kahondo, which meant I couldn’t show the teachers the videos on the learning landscape website, we still had a great day. The teachers have already started varying the games were taught them in the first workshop, bending and adding rules, and combining elements of the two games! It was really great to see that and I encouraged them to keep doing that by pointing out how that they can adapt the games to their specific lessons.

I started with asking every teacher how their week was and whether had played any games. I was very happy to find that most of them had in fact been playing the educational games with the students. the problems they faced included large class sizes and limited class time. we discussed some ideas of how they could better used the time and space and talked about diving the classes into two groups.

I introduced them to two more games: foxes and rabbits and shuffle. we altered foxes and rabbits into lions and antelopes so the animals were more familiar to them. both games went down quite well, first having a practice in the classroom. once we were out to the tyres their engagement was magical! I was blown away by how much they were into the games!"