Art attack

Following on from the work they did with the Eltham College visitors there has been an outpouring of creativity amongst Kisasa pupils. Innocent Yohanna of Form IA presented Headmaster Mbilinyi with a superb scale model of the school complete with miniature flagpole and flag. The staff room is rapidly filling up with works of art and an exhibition may be held soon to which parents and the local community will be invited. Watch this space!

Rocket Launch

We are proud to announce the successful launch of two rockets - KSS 1 and KSS 2 - at 6.40 (Swahili time) Thursday 17th November. Form IIA have been studying Newton's Third Law and the Conservation of Momentum. They applied this to Rocket Science, using air pressure to force water downwards from a plastic water bottle which was then propelled upwards. The bicycle pump used to increase the air pressure was rather small and the "rocket engineers" got very tired. They also got quite wet.  Next time we intend to get hold of a stirrup pump. We will also try to make the design more aerodynamic. So look out for an unidentified flying object in the skies above Dodoma.

Graduation

Congratulations to two of our teachers who have graduated from St John's University. Fortunata Kimati who teaches English and Kiswahili gained a BA in Education.  Hussein Ngomaitala who teaches Maths and Physics has a BSc, also in Education. Their degrees were conferred on Saturday 5th November at a ceremony at St John's, the Prime Minister Peter Pinda being the Guest of Honour.

Goodbye for now Eltham College

We were all sad to say goodbye to the visiting Eltham College pupils and their teachers. The farewell assembly of speeches, presentations, singing and dancing was a great occasion and we could see that their dancing had improved during their time with us. They all said they wanted to come back and we hope they do.

Sports Day

Pupils competed in the 100m and the long jump. There was a bit of barging in some of the 100m heats so we need to get the lanes properly marked out. The newly completed long jump run up and pit worked fine. Chacha Mwita of Form II was the overall champion, setting new school records of 12.50 seconds for the 100m and 4.74m in the long jump.

The athletics were followed by a netball match: Kisasa girls against the Eltham College boys. They got their revenge for the football defeat by winning 5-2.

KSS from the Air

Five of the Eltham College team were lucky enough to go up for a flight in a small plane from Dodoma airfield. They had a great bird's-eye view of Kisasa and some of the Kisasa pupils stood in formation spelling out KSS.