The Read for the Top competition is allowing teachers to pinpoint the weaknesses in their students. In some schools the facility for answering questions about Swahili books is much more evident than for the English ones. This only underlines the difficulties children will have in answering examination questions which are all in English.
In addition, a teacher pointed out last week that the children could easily answer the factual 'who', 'what' but were uncomfortable with 'how' and 'why'.
For those of you who know Julius through his jewelry, we were in his village school last week where the children had worked hard to earn their T shirts and prizes.
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