Secondary Students Return

We just finished the second week of tutoring classes for our secondary students. We had around 60 students separated into three different classes. They would arrive around 10:00 or 11:00 in the morning and study on their own or in groups until noon. Then they would have lessons in Math, Physics and Chemistry taught by secondary school teachers from the local area. There was also time included for lunch and sports in the afternoon before going home at 5:30 pm. The students are all on a month-long break from their various schools so this time was a good opportunity to keep them busy with positive activites, reunite them with their former classmates from primary school, help them in academic areas that are challenging sometimes, give them opportunities to share with students from other schools, and allow us the chance to spend some time with them. The students were very prompt arriving in the morning and were very grateful for the opportunity to get some extra help.

Secondary Schools in Kenya are very similar to Universities in the U.S. because the students go to boarding schools, the classes are big (usually 40-60 students and sometimes bigger), the academics are very demanding with 11 subjects at a time and the teachers mainly lecture and expect the students to learn most topics on their own. So the students and parents/guardians are positive towards extra teaching that will help the children to succeed.