More than words...

Hi! Here's my attempt at our blogger challenge this week...

                                                       More than words........

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And! An added bonus of a qoute about words ;)

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world." - Robin Williams

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Hi there!


In Religion we are doing projects on MDG's. The Millennium Development Goals are eight international development goals that were established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000.
These eight Goals include

  1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.

  2. Achieve universal Primary education.
  3. Promote gender equality and empower women.
  4. Reduce child mortality.
  5. Improve maternal health.
  6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.
  7. Ensure environmental sustainability.
  8. Develop a Global partnership for development.

 Some interesting facts about the MDG Goals are.....

•  Roughly 2/3 of the population of sub-Saharan Africa has HIV. One goal is to cut the growth of HIV by 50%.

• The percent of underweight children in developing countries dropped from 28% in 1990 to 17% in 2011.

• Worldwide,1.2 billion earn less than $1.25 a day. The UN hopes to end poverty by cutting this number in half.

• 800 million people are undernourished and 153 million children are underweight. 

• Poverty disproportionately affects women, who represent 70 percent of the world’s poor and the current financial crisis is likely to affect women particularly severely. According to estimates, of the 771 million illiterate adults worldwide, 64 percent are women

•  Of the 680 million children of primary school age, 115 million are still not in school — 97% of them in developing countries

•  Every year, more than 10 million children die of preventable causes –  30, 000 per day.

These MDG's give children in some of the poorest and isolated communities in the world hope for a better future, we can make our generation be the generation that finally ends poverty.

Thank you for reading,

love Caroline x

Work Experience!

Hi!

If you didnt already know, Every Wednesday we TY's go on a Work Experience Placement. This is to help us gain an insight into our chosen profession, we each get three slots. For my first slot I am going to a Primary school in Milicent called Hewetson and for my second slot I am going to my old playschool 'La Petit Ecole', I havn't sorted my third slot yet.



So far, I have spent three Wednesdays in Hewetson. On the first Wednesday of my work experience I was quite nervous entering the school as I had never been in the school before and I didnt know what kind of duties I would be expected to preform. Luckily enough the biggest "duty" I was given was laminating. When I entered the school Ms Morgan the principle greeted me, she was extremly friendly and welcoming which calmed my nerves alot. Hewetson is an amazing school its numbers are small which means each class is split, for example there is a Junior and senior class, a first and second class, a third and fourth class and lastly a fifth class. There are fifteen students altogether in Juniors and Seniors, which I think is lovely as
each child recieves lots of individual attention.

I have been given the oppertunity to spend time in every class which gives me a great understanding of each class cirriculum. The teachers and students are as kind and friendly as ever, At luch time I usually go on 'Yard Duty' which gives me an excellent oppertunity to meet the students and get to know them better. In Hewetson I have been able to observe different class groups and I have also been able to actually teach a few students at the back of the classroom who find certain topics especially diffucult. Last Wednesday I helped two students from third class to diferentiate between which, witch, white and with also come, comb, cob and there, their, they're ect. I absolutly loved this oppertunity to be able to teach the students....I also loved being called 'teacher'

Each Wednesday so far has been brilliant! I really think I would love to be a primary school teacher when I am older. I cant wait for next Wedneday!

   < future me ;)