Monthly Report May

Written by Teacher Margaret

Jambo y'all.

We have come to the end of April which would have seen us open for the second term of this year. As we all know, schools were closed indefinitely due to Covid - 19. Our government announced 31 more days for the schools to remain closed. I have been able to visit happy day families ( observing the set down rules) during this pandemic and I can report that life is hard. Most of the happy day families ( almost all of them) live in abject poverty and cannot therefore afford essential items and especially now that we are required to stay at home to stop the virus. Our families are affected greatly because our parents live on daily wages of below a dollar per day. Right now they don't have any form of income and so what I have witness is far more worse than what I knew. Families are going for a day or two without food until when a well-wisher like you and me appears to give some help. We at happy day are blessed to have gotten assistance in form of food, soap and tissue paper from our friends, family and supporters in Norway. May each one of you be blessed . I am still waiting for some face masks from a friend of mine so that I can distribute to the families. During my visits I found out that most of them don't have this very important items which happens to be a requirement. If one is found without a mask they get arrested by the police and are taken for forced quarantine.

The government requires that if a person, a group or an organization wants to distribute food they go through the area administration. Am happy to report that we have experienced great cooperation from our local authority. They promised to always give us security when we have items to give to our families.
We are very grateful that we at least helped a family put food on the table. It's much an eye opener to me that people are suffering out here.

We don't have much about academics to report about because our government has set up online learning for students and they have tv programs too. Our happy day families don't have access to any form of internet and most of them don't have a tv set. Those who have a tv cannot afford to pay for the monthly subscription so that their kids can study via the kids channel. So we have to wait until schools open for our kids to learn.


OUR APRIL/ MAY BUDGET IS AS FOLLOWS ::::
salaries.....    80000
Insurance...  18000
Water.....        1500
Food.......       50000
TOTAL......  149500

Extra salary due to hard times.....40000

Total.........189500

Monthly Report April

Written by Teacher Margaret

Jambo y'all. Trust you are well and keeping safe during this period of Corona virus. We too are trying to keep safe and to stay home despite the tough economic times. As you all know most of our families live from hand to mouth and cannot afford to buy food in large quantities. So we are hardest hit when it comes to staying at home. Recently as I was giving food and soap to families, I could see the fear in the eyes of the parents. Fear of how they would survive this period when the kids are not in school. The uncertainty caused by this virus is very evidently witnessed. As we all know, our happy day kids mostly depends on the food we give in school and do right now parents are overwhelmed by the stay at home situation. Most of our parents earn less than a dollar a day and currently working isn't allowed ( they are labourers in people's houses and a nearby quarry.) It is so hard for the families especially now that Kenya is reporting new cases every day and we might soon have a total lockdown. My prayer is that a cure or maybe a vaccine is soon discovered. If the cases escalate then we might be hit hard. We don't know when schools will be reopened but we just have to wait and pray.

We are grateful that we were able to give some food to our families. May each one of you who made it possible be blessed always.
Our March / April budget is as follows:

Salaries.... 75,000

Insurance...14,000
Water...........3,000
TOTAL......92000
-.Pre paid salaries 38000
= 54,000


It is my humble request that if possible we get the usual food money so that we can give more food, soap and tissues to our happy day families. Our monthly food costs approximately 50,000.
We will appreciate. 

Thanks and take care of yourselves.
Much love from us

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Monthly Report March

Written by Teacher Margaret

Jambo y'all. Trust you are all well and good. We at Happy Day are also doing well and we are grateful to you all for the continued support. 

We are at the middle of the first term and 2020. Much changes have happened with the change of system in the education ministry. We are copping well though the system is a bit demanding on all parties including teacher's, children, parents and the community at large. We have improvised most of the learning materials and teaching aid for our children to learn better. We have also had to buy some but this has proved to be hard especially on the parents. This month of much we require every parent to buy a scrap book for their child @ 500 kshs. We know most of them will not be able to afford but we are optimistic that they will try since we have let them know that the system involves a lot of bought items which the school can't always provide.  

Our staff are doing well and I am very grateful to them for their dedication to the children at Happy Day.

Our FEB / MARCH budget is as follows:
SALARIES...... 75000
CHAI.............24000
FOOD......26000
FUEL.......2400
WATER....... 3000
STATIONARY..... 10000

TOTAL........ 140,400


SPECIAL REQUEST FOR SCRAPBOOKS....
We assume that around 20 parents will afford to buy the books for their children. We request that the school can buy for the remaining 30 children because they have to have them . This will cost us

30 books @ 500 = 15000.
This is a kind request.

Have a blessed new month and be blessed always for your continued support to the happy day family

Bildedryss

Monthly Report February

Written by Teacher Margaret

Jambo you all. I hope you are all doing well and I hope you started the year 2020 well. We at Happy Day Junior school started at a higher note after the long Christmas holidays. The first term is ongoing and it's all systems go with the new competence based curriculum of education. We are trying our best to cope with the new changes. The system is a very busy one for all including parents, teachers and the children. All must participate in the day to day learning. Most of the learning in this system involves observation from the parents and the teachers. It's mostly about handwork. Practicals are more than the theory part of learning. Tangible items and things are used in almost all the activities. We have to improvise most of the learning and teaching materials from locally available things though we also have to buy some. We will keep on updating the happenings of the system as time goes by.

Most of the kids are back and we always do new admission or enrollment every beginning of first term for the playgroup class. This are children ages between 3 - 4 years. In the current system this class is mostly learning through singing, playing, and touching. We have also done a few new admission for the other classes. We have 48 children as of Friday 31st January 2020.


Our JAN / FEB budget is as follows:

SALARIES...... 75000 

CHAI.............24000 

FOOD......26000 

FUEL.......2400 

WATER....... 3000 

LEARNING AND TEACHING MATERIALS....... 15000 

TOTAL........ 145,400

Monthly Report January

Written by Teacher Margaret

Happy new year to all of you Happy Day family, friends, pupils and staff. I hope this finds you well . We too are fine.
We are scheduled to open school on 6th January 2020 for the first term. We have had a very long stay at home for the holidays. We are happy that at last we are going back to happy day junior school and meet each other.
We are very grateful for the Christmas food that our families received during the holidays. We bless each person who gave towards the same.
As we usher in the new year, we have high hopes that 2020 will be a better year for us both in academic and social life. As you all know, the new curriculum is in place and each one of us is looking forward to embracing the new changes. Through the system, our children will not be given numbers according to their academic performance, they will be graded according to their abilities in every activity undertaken..... Children will be under constant observation from their teachers. In the previous system, pre School took 3 years, primary school 8 years, high school 4 years then University took as many years as required by a student's course.
The current system starts with playgroup, pre primary 1, pre primary 2, then a child proceed to lower primary ( this includes grade 1,2 and 3), they then go to upper primary ( grade 4, 5 and 6). From grade 6 they go to junior high school for 3 years, then to senior high school for 3 more years. After high school they join the national youth service before joining the university.

Due to the changes in the curriculum, we have had a lot going on. We had to be trained again, we had to buy new text books, we had and still have to get new teaching aids and we also had to engage the parents more in the day to day happenings. Our parents had to hand make some learning materials for their kids as we also play our roll. We will keep updating you on interesting activities and challenges as they occur. 

WE WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY, BLESSED AND PEACEFUL 2020.




Our Dec/ Jan budget is as follows:

SALARIES...... 75000 

CHAI................24000 

FOOD...............26000 

FUEL..................2400 

WATER.............. 3000 

STATIONARY... 5000 

5 DESKS......... 10000 

TOTAL.......... 145,000