Lochgelly High School forges Malawi links

Published 13 Jul 2010 13:50 0 Comments

TWO Lochgelly High School teachers have strengthened links with a partnership school in Malawi.

Headteacher Campbell Wood and social subjects teacher Emma McKean recently returned from a week-long visit to the Mganja Full Primary School. Two members of staff from Malawi visited Lochgelly last September.

Mr Wood and Miss McKean stayed in the rural Mganja village which has no running water or electricity.

Mr Wood explained, "The school faces many challenges. There are 940 pupils there with only six full-time teachers and several student teachers.

"The school does not have enough classrooms for the different classes so some groups are taught outside underneath the mango trees.

"Despite these difficulties, the quality of the learning and teaching was of a high standard. Pupils enjoyed school and the teachers taught with joy and a determination that the pupils would succeed."

Lochgelly High has supported the Mganja school in recent years by purchasing bicycles for staff, helping to provide toilets and providing science equipment. Letters are also exchanged between the pupils of the two schools.

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