School Happenings

This year the Santa Teresa RC boys did well in the Primary School volleyball competition. The zone elimination took place in Santa Teresa and our boys won! They then went on to district finals in Punta Gorda Town where they played the winners of the other seven zones in Toledo. They won the first game against San Vicente and pulled through for a second win against Indian Creek which meant we made it to the final match in the district. We played our best against Toledo Christian, but were unable to take the title. Maybe next year we'll make it to Nationals.

I gave my first professional development workshop of the year on alternative assessment in reading and writing. I think it went okay. Of course I started it with an icebreaker, bringing Word Jumbles to the staff at Santa Teresa. We had good discussions about surveys, checklists, response journals, scoring writing with the 6 traits, and portfolios. And speaking of workshops, I've been able to attend a couple as well. The first was an expressive arts workshop put on by the Ministry of Education. It was a two day workshop, but I found out about it on the first day so I could only make the second. I figured it would be talking about ways to implement expressive arts in the classroom, but no, it was more like dance camp. When I realized we would be learning a routine I couldn't keep from laughing. I had the biggest smile on my face during the entire warm-up and I'm sure the other 30 teachers were wondering what was wrong with me. And to make things better, the routine was to a Christmas song. Oh, how I love Belize. The second workshop was one on classroom management. Mr. Chub had asked me to go along with him so we could present the information to the rest of the staff together.


The garden is coming along, too. Not only are the students tending to it during their scheduled time in the garden but also they have took it upon themselves to do extra watering and care throughout the week.

Our library now has a librarian! Mr. Teul has attended the training in Belize City and now comes to work in the library 8 hours a week. Right now his focus is on organizing the books so I try to get in there as much as I can to help out. It's so exciting to me that there's interest to use and take care of all the books we already have and of course to expand the library as much as we can, making it accessible to our community and eventually surrounding ones. Santa Teresa will be the place to come visit!

Note: For some reason I can't get the computer to read my other memory card to share more pictures. Next time. Loves and Hugs!