When I first found 2025’s Standard 4 class was the third class in our school to meet our standards of all students getting and A or B on the Tanzania scale, I made a quick plug in the year and review and a Facebook post. I have since gotten the complete numbers and evaluated our…
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2025 Year in Review
2025 was an eventful year both in Tanzania, My Life and especially at the school. I put together a short video of review for just the school with no audio and it is included in this blog below. If you watched one on Facebook it is the same video. However I wanted to cover some…
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…
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…
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…
Teaching Duty, Kids are going to Vomit, How to make a Virtual Mission Trip and Sarah Silverman reads to our Kids
So this week was another very full week at the school. It started with end of month testing and finished with a tribal conflict in the village that required Police presence. Yeah that kind of fun. sometimes it is just exhausting to be at school The first three days were filled with the kids taking…
Steve and Barnabas 