education

2025 Graduation Day

I have been trying lately to write more to go along with the photos. I have turned to various AI engines but find they mainly add more verbiage to the descriptions I write them and therefore save me very little time. I do read them and have drawn some ideas from them. The fact that…

Rising Stars of Tumaini: A Celebration of Our Top Students

At Tumaini Evangelistic Pre & Primary School in Kiruani, every child is on a journey—a journey of discovery, learning, and growth. Today I am writing about those students who have excelled during the first exam of the 2nd Term and after their long break during June. 🌱 Baby Class – The First Steps In the…

Standard 7 Prayer Request and Introduction

We are currently in our final preparations for the Standard 7 students to take their exit exam (Officially labeled PSLE-Primary School Leaving Examination). This examination serves two purposes really. The first to determine if the students have learned the basics necessary to advance to Secondary School and the second is to help Private Secondary Schools…

Tumaini Evangelistic Pre & Primary School Explores Arusha National Park

For the third year in a row, Tumaini Evangelistic Pre & Primary School has taken a study tour (field trip in the USA). Remember your own field trips to museums or local farms to learn but to also bring alive some of the lessons from the classrooms. Field trips are important to young students to…

2025 Spelling Competiton

I am going to be honest up front. I recently read an article about using Chat GPT (yes one of those AI services) to write or help create blog content that would inspire. So I gave it a try. I gave it some specific information about our recent Spelling Competition and let it go. Overall…

Student Presentation

One difference between what I remember of USA schools and the schools here in Tanzania that I have not gone into over the years is the students being expected to speak in front of large gatherings. Every morning students are selected to give a morning speech where they have to give a short speech typically…

End of 1st Semester Top Students

It has been a busy time for me personally. The school closed up for the mid year break between semesters in early June and will reopen the second week of July. So I am finishing up my time off here after Mom’s funeral and will be heading back just before the school opens. So as…

Year 8 started and reaching a goal

Tumaini Evangelistic Pre and Primary School has just started our eighty year as a Primary school. Last year was a major milestone here as we had our first class graduate from our school and move on to Secondary School (basically our High School). It is my understanding that five of the eight students who graduated…

Christmas Gifts 2024

So the end of the school year has always been one of my favorite times at Tumaini Evangelistic Pre & Primary School. Then this year happened. I have held off writing this post because honestly I did not know how to present what went on. Normally I spend the last week leading up to the…

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”–Nelson Mandela For those of you who are regular readers of my blog, some of this discussion will be a refresher from some of the previous blogs. But since I am picking up new readers who are interested in the Tumaini Primary…