A very busy half term is coming toward a close - the week commencing Monday 12th October will be the last before a brief break. For the students at Amano the break will seem short as they revise for examinations which take place immediately after their return on Monday 19th. Most teachers will also have a shorter than usual break as Saturday 17th and the following Monday and Tuesday are largely taken up by an in-service training course organised by our friends from NorthStar UK.
NorthStar have played a major part so far this term. The company teaches our Business Studies Course and plays a major part in our sixth form tutoring. For the biggest part of the time work with them is done via the Internet but Amano benefits from visits from NorthStar tutors from time to time. IGCSE and AS level examinations commence on the 15th October; they are held at Lechwe School in nearby Kitwe. This is therefore a key time for our Grade 12 and Sixth Form students and we have benefited from visits by Martin Warburton from NorthStar who tutors ICT to the Sixth Form and currently from Rob and Angela Mallett. Rob covers Business Studies which is supervised at Amano by our own Lukundo Siwale. Angela also works with NorthStar and is helping out as well as being the best possible company for Rob!
We also have Laura Ferguson from Scotland with us. Laura came just after term started and will be here until the end of term in December. She is assisting in the Primary School and also doing great work in the dorm, adding a Celtic touch to the German volunteers we featured previously in the blog, who assist our Matron, Mrs Simfukwe.
Our pictures show Martin Warburton, Rob Mallett in conversation with Lukundo and Martin and Angela together. Laura Ferguson is seen enjoying assisting in the computer room as well as in the usual more formal portrait. Finally, while students obviously normally join the school at the beginning of the year this term saw two exceptions: Sani and Tayla-Rae both joined Amano this term come under Martin Smith's care in Grade 6 and 7.
We are grateful to the Lord for all his goodness to us seen in so many ways and we ask you to join with us in thanking him and praising his glorious name. Praise him for the volunteers we have in the dormitory and the NorthStar visitors who contribute so much to the school, not least their determined Christian stance as a company and as individuals. We would also ask you to pray for some particular needs: there has been an unusual amount of illness among students and staff this term; please pray for the students in Grade 12 and Sixth Form sitting examinations commencing 15th October. Finances at the school are by no means immune from the effects of the world economic crisis: reduced giving and increasing prices are a poor combination, but we know that the Lord is able to deal with all these things and that he will do all to his glory.
Thank you for taking time to read the blog and for your prayerful support.
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