Last week the girls started with their new school, The Giving Tree. The Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports evaluated this International School as being in Phase 2 according to their COVID-19 prevention guidelines.
This means that The Giving Tree has resumed in person meetings with appropriate safeguards but not in large groups or at the school. Instead, the students are meeting in small study groups of 5 to 8 students with teachers. These study groups are primarily meeting at student’s houses with trips to the main campus for swimming or to a local gym for physical education.
Our old house is the study group’s location for Catherine’s class. In the morning, the teacher and teacher’s aid disinfect the space. They wear face shields while greeting the students at the gate, taking temperatures, and washing hands. Then we usually leave so as not to disrupt the day. It’s been interesting to have a class full of preschoolers at our old house while we’re moving to the new house.
This is also the model that the public schools that we support in rural Prey Veng province have adopted. Teachers have been meeting with small groups of students at their homes.
Sounds like a good idea. The girls look happy!
They were getting desperate for other children after months of COVID-19 isolation.
It is so good to see the girl’s happy faces!
It’s great to get caught up on your lives! Sounds like you’ve had multiple transitions in recent weeks and now moving to what appears to be a lovely home! May God’s grace and love, and the growing community of friends around you, sustain and support you in the days and weeks to come! Keeping you in our prayers!
Ah, thats convenient for Catherine to already be familiar with the space while she gets accustomed to the rest of the class/study group.
I hope all goes well for you all with your transitions to new surroundings.