Sunday 16 September 2012

Brand New Classrooms





We’re very pleased to announce that thanks to everyone’s donations, we have completed major renovation works at the Village School.  The primary area has been transformed into a bright, dry and very pleasant place for the youngest children to be.  As well as replacing the roof and all timber work (it turned out that the roof was in imminent danger of collapse), there are new windows and grilles, built-in cupboards for storage and some second-hand donated desks and chairs.



In addition, one of the disused classrooms has been converted to a room to serve as a science lab (perhaps not maybe one we’d recognise) and the old music room is now set up for the students to learn computer studies.  All of this work has been completed in part by donations in memory of John Watson from Macmillan publishers who passed away in 2006 and a grant from the Dragon School in Oxford and their annual Dragon Sale for which we’re very grateful.

Looking like school now

We have been promised three laptops by Cleeve School near Cheltenham too, and hope that these will go out in October when Frances, a colleague of Gav, will spend two weeks at the school and help get the computer room up and running.

Fresh and bright new classrooms

The Computer Room

This is a significant achievement and means that the youngest kids from the most under-privileged backgrounds will have the best start to their education and all pupils will benefit from the new facilities and improve their chances of success in their studies.

Thank you to everyone for your continued support and to Sarath our contractor in Ratmalana for ensuring the work was done on-time and to budget.

And this is a reminder of how it looked before...




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