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During this trip they;

> Worked with teachers from CFC’s Aranh, Kong Much and Kravan schools. The focus was on Co-operation through maths and demonstrated ways in which students could work together to learn. As always the teachers came away with many practical ideas and resources that they could use straight away in their classrooms.

>Helped our Bakong Primary School teachers to embark on a ‘Classroom Assistant Internship Program’.
Wannabe teachers from the High School took part in a training led by Teaching Assistants from Tanglin Trust School and found out how to work with individuals and small groups in the classroom.

As well as giving students valuable experience and the opportunity to find out more about skills they need to become a teacher, teachers at the Primary School will also benefit each week from this training as students will sign up to come and assist in the classroom which will come as great news to the teachers who can have up to 60 children in their class!

> Worked with the Student Council learn new games to help keep children at Aranh, Kong Much and Amelio schools entertained at recess. Teaching Assistants from Tanglin Trust led a workshop for Student Council members ‘during which they wrote sets of ‘playground rules’, thought about ways in which they could model appropriate playground behaviours and also learnt new games to ensure all children are involved in something fun and engaging at recess.

Our appreciation goes out to Tanglin Trust and all of the other International schools who support our teachers and help to make learning more enjoyable.

Assistants – both old and new learnt about child development from conception to birth and then physical, emotional, intellectual,language and ethical and cultural development from birth to 6 years old.

Trainers used group work activities to give the new assistants the opportunity to brainstorm ideas and to think of explanations themselves and to learn from the 4 existing Preschool Assistants that we have. They also linked much of the learning to everyday experiences in Cambodian culture such as cooking rice, peeling and cutting vegetables and washing clothes.

A couple of days in to the training saw the new assistants growing in confidence and already showing great promise which is such exciting news for our 6 new preschools that will open in October.

Teachers have begun to meet together twice a month during their lunch break to learn new teaching techniques, share ideas and have the opportunity to talk with other teachers about the subjects that they teach. They then take these ideas and incorporate them into lesson plans for the following week to ensure teaching across all schools is of a consistantly high standard and that activities are more student centred. The response towards these meetings has been really positive with many teachers eager to attend and new techniques already being demonstrated throughout all schools.

We had representatives from local NGOs, universities, businesses, and government organizations, and students got to meet them all and learn about opportunities for further education and all different kinds of careers. We had a packed house for most of the 3 hours.

Visitors were happy to be a part of the event and told us that students asked inquisitive and interesting questions. An observer from another NGO absolutely loved the event and was really inspired to hold a similar event in the future. Students that completed their worksheet about what they learned from the visitors got to enter their names in a drawing for Khmer-English dictionaries or school supplies.

A huge thank you to CFC staff for helping make the event such a success!

Microsoft Asia Pacific went on team building trip with a difference last week when over 70 employees from its Readiness Team took a break from meetings to do some hands-on work at Caring for Cambodia’s Bakong Campus.

In one short day they painted the exterior of three school buildings, and provided much needed landscaping services (moving and spreading tons of top-soil), with the organization donating US$4,000 in supplies to complete these projects

The following morning the team woke bright and early and headed back to the campus in time for breakfast, allowing them to interact with students while serving a meal as part of the Food for Thought program.

About the Project: The property the school was constructed on had an existing large hollow depression in the earth between the two main school buildings. Caring for Cambodia has been gradually undertaking the process of filling this hole so that the area can be used as a functional outdoor space for volleyball, soccer and other sports.

Projects like this are only possible with the assistance of our Service-Trip program whereby volunteers donate their time and the funds required to purchase the supplies to complete their chosen project. In 2010 more than 675 volunteers traveled to Siem Reap to assist in similar ways.

From preschool through high school, hand washing is part of the CFC students’ daily routine. Soap socks now hang by the water taps to ensure the students use clean water and soap when washing up.

The Health and Dental Committee, and the Education Committee have prepared books along with fun “hands-on” activities to reinforce the lesson that germs can be harmful.

For many of us, sparkling clean water is a given. For others, it’s a precious gift.

Asia Water Foundation has donated and installed micro-filtration systems in five of our schools. Our students, teachers and their families now enjoy more than 10,000 liters of clean drinking water every day.