Transforming Education in Bo OWL Schools

Five One World Link schools in Bo will receive training and mentoring in a year-long collaboration with Educaid. All fifteen linked schools in Bo were invited to participate and five were selected by Bo OWL: BDEC Messima, RC Madonna,  UMC Messima, UBC Upper and UBC Lower.

Educaid, a long-established NGO in Sierra Leone, have developed a programme to transform teaching and learning. They will give initial training to the school heads and staff, explaining their  ‘Ten Top Strategies for Teaching and Learning’. These require that teachers engage with the children individually, monitoring their progress, seeing where they need extra help and making school safe and fun. They also involve the school management committees and the wider community

Educaid have appointed Sheku JP Sannoh (‘JP’), an experienced staff member pictured here, to lead the training and to be a coach and mentor for the coming school year. He will take up residence in Bo and spend a full day every week with each of the schools encouraging and helping them to implement those strategies. The overall aim is to improve teaching and learning, ensure higher levels of literacy and numeracy, reduce absenteeism and improve community involvement.

OWL have received a generous donation that has enabled us to start the project and are now actively seeking more money to complete the project. One sponsored walk has already been planned and our UK schools will be fundraising. Based on the outcomes of this year we have outline plans to extend the project to the other ten linked schools over the following two years.