Monthly Report for April and May

Written by Teacher Margaret

Jambo to all of you. Trust you are all fine and doing well. We at Happy Day are fine and doing good. We openned school today for the second term and we are looking forward towards having a good term ahead. Most of the kids do not report to school on the first day due to a few challenges but they will be back by the end of the week. 

Second term has a totall of 14 academic weeks. We have asked the teachers to bring their schemes of work and lesson plans for second term by the end of the week. This will enable us to plan in advance on the academics. We will make the school time table tomorrow during our staff meeting. During this meeting we will discuss on matters that affect us at Happy Day and come up with ways of handling the matters. All of us will be required to outline our challenges both in class and in the school. Last term we insisted on all kids coming to school in full school uniform but unfortunately some of them didn't come back because their parents were unable to buy the uniform. We hope that this term they come back and learn. I have talked to some of the affected kids parents and I told them to let the kids come to school as they arrange on how to buy the uniforms. 

I attended a workshop towards the end of last term which was about the changes in our education system. This will happen gradually. The government is still working on how to go about with the changes and more workshops and seminars will be arranged for proprieters and teachers on the same. More on the changes will be reported as they happen. 

The private schools association will from wednesday next week hold a seminar for all its members in Nairobi to talk on matters that affect formal and informal schools in the sector. I have been invited to participate in the seminar as Happy Day representative.

Our budget for April and May is

SALARIES..............50,000 

FOOD.....................23,000 

WATER....................2,000 

INSURANCE............14,000 

STATIONARIES..........5,000 

TOTAL ....................94,000 

We will report more after tomorrows meeting. Thank you and be blessed always

Elever og lærere 2016

 I år har vi 33 elever. 18 gutter og 15 jenter. De er fordelt på 5 klasser.

Babyclass og nursery

Pre-unit

1. og 2. klasse

3.klasse

Rektor Margaret og Josefin

Monthly Report February

Written by Teacher Margaret

Jambo Happy Day family. We at happy day are doing well and we have started our mid term exams today. We will break for our mid term rest on Friday this week and come back in Tuesday next week. Our staff are working tirelessly towards achieving the goals that they have set for the term. 

Last term we had our septic tank (sewage) emptied at a cost of 5k and we are thankful to you all. We also bought some text books at a cost of 7k. I have been buying more books for use at happy day. I think we now have enough for teaching though all the kids share the books because we can only buy for a whole class and not for every child.

This term has been kind of challenging especially to me but we are working on improving the quality of education and the lives of our kids. Peter Mwangi had gone back to the dumping site and we had to go looking for him to bring him back to school.I am glad and happy that he is back. We bought him new school uniform, books, pencils and all the requirements. I will be taking him to the education for life seminar on March 20th at the Kariobangi Catholic Church so that he can be taught on the importance of education.

This term all schools are participating in ball games. We will be joining the neighbouring schools for the same after the mid term break.

Our budget for February is 

Salaries.......... 50,000 

food................24,000 

water................2,500 

insurance.... ....14,000 

hygiene............. 5,500 

TOTAL...........96,000 Kenyan Shillings

Thanks for the support. Be blessed always

Skuddår

Februar er snart over, og vi er snart halvveis i første semester. Elevene på Happy Day er fortiden opptatt med midtsemesterprøver. På fredag får elevene en langhelg med fri på mandag. 

Det har vært en bra start på dette året, og elever og lærere jobber godt sammen. Vi håper det blir et rolig år, slik at vi slipper forstyrrelser i læringen. I fjor var det lærerstreik, det håper vi at vi slipper i år.

Tusen takk for all støtte vi får. Uten dere hadde dette arbeidet vært umulig. Vi håper dere vil fortsette å støtte oss. Fortell gjerne om oss til venner og bekjente. 

Ta gjerne kontakt med oss hvis du lurer på noe. Kom også gjerne med tips, ris og ros. Skriv til oss i kommentarfeltet eller benytt kontaktinformasjonen som du finner på kontakt oss siden. 

Monthly Report January

Written by Teacher Margaret

Morning people.... we have come to the end of January and we thank God for that. Our staff are working tirelessly to see that we achieve our goals for this term. 

Teacher Mary and I have been attending a teacher's seminar for the last week. It is about teaching methodology. We will update you after we finish. It will take two weeks

Scouting too is ongoing and some of the scouts are set to go for camping at the lower land camp in kabete. The camp will take place in March. We are currently training them on basic life skills in preparation for the camp.

Our budget is as follows 

SALARIES............. 50,000 

FOOD.....................24,000 

WATER....................3,000 

INSURANCE .........14,000 

STATIONERIES...... 5,000 

CARTRIDGES......... 6,000

TOTAL...........102,000 shillings 

You will realise that the price of food has increased. This is because food prices have gone up Thank you and be blessed for the continued support

Nytt pensum

Vi fikk denne meldingen fra rektor ved Happy Day Junior School

Jambo to you all. We are in the third week of first term and we are doing well. The kids and the staff are all back and learning has been ongoing. 

We are in need of some text books that the government requires all schools to have. This are: kiswahili mufti for all classes, primary english, primary mathematics, Total readers, sound and read books 1&2, jifunze kiswahili books1&2, one in Christ books 1,2&3
The books cost 6750shillings in the book shops. They will go a great way in makings us learn better. Let me know if its possible for us to get them. Thanks and be blessed always

Vi har nå kjøpt inn bøkene, så elevene kan lære rett pensum. Ved årets start ble vi informert om at det er kommet nytt pensum i skolene i Kenya.

Godt nyttår

Greetings from Teacher Margaret


Happy new year Happy Day family! Its yet another year and we are still thankful to everyone of you. 

We are set to open school on Tuesday 6th for the first term. We are looking forward to having a great learning experience together with our children. 

On 24th Dec we had the privilege of giving christmas food to the less fortunate in our school and we and them are very grateful. Some family had a good day because of anyone who made it possible. As we enter into the next academic year we are set to experience some changes in the education sector through some government initiative.

our budget is as follows

Salaries ........24,000 

Food ............25,000 

Insurance......14,000 

Stationeries.....5,000 

Hygience kit...5,000 

New guideline...3000 

Water..............4,000 

TOTAL..............76,000 KSH

Finally we wish you all a prosperous new year as we help educate this children