What makes a school?

What makes a school?

classroom brainstorm part 1 (put your ideas in BLUE) classroom brainstorm part 2 (put your ideas in GREEN)

What makes a school?

Tents act as schools for Kosovar children (children from the Yugloslav province of Kosovo), in the Cegrane refugee camp in north-west Macedonia, the largest refugee camp in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

For this boy and girl, at the Lileu Sagrada Esperança School in the northern town of Malange, Angola, their school starts out in a box of materials, called „school in a box‟ provided by UNICEF.

A teacher helps students in a class in a train container in rural Zambia. The train container is an alternative for students who cannot afford school fees, or cannot travel the long distance to theformal school. Many of the children are orphans.

The Kampong Prahok floating school is part of a cluster of schools on the Tonle Sap lake in Battambang Province, Cambodia. When the villagers float their homes to more sheltered waters at the start of the rainy season, they tow the school with them.

In the middle of a large boulevard in the eastern city of Lahore, Pakistan, an older man holds informal classes for a group of neighborhood children, while also tending his nearby store.

In Zambia, children sit at desks in Nthombimbi Primary School, a community school with no roof and incomplete walls.

In Nigeria, three small girls seated at a shared desk are helped with their schoolwork in a primary school class in Ibadan, capital of the south-western state of Oyo. Their school has four walls, a roof, and rooms for each class.

Children from the Ashaninka indigenous group sit at desks made of logs, or sit or lie on the floor while studying at the Cutivireni mission school in the central department of Junin, Peru.

In the south-central town of Baidoa in Somalia, first grade students sit on the floor in a roofless building because their school has too many students to fit everyone in the main building.

Children sit outside on benches as their teacher points to a chalkboard during a mathematics class at a community school in the village of Nkausu, near the town of Ndola in central Zambia.

What makes a school?

Go back to slide 2. Add more ideas about what makes A school,

not just YOUR school. If needed, revise some of the ideas you wrote before.

What makes a school?

classroom brainstorm part 1 (put your ideas in BLUE) classroom brainstorm part 2 (put your ideas in GREEN)

What makes a school?

You’ve already brainstormed your ideas here on slide 2.

Now go back to slide 2 and revise / expand your ideas on this side of the chart.

What makes

a school

?Compare Lesher to the schools you just saw in the pictures.

(group activity)

What is the same?

What is different?

What makes a school?Off to Class School Profiles

Boat Schools in Bangladesh Green Buddhist School in IndiaRainforest School in Brazil Village Built School in Burkina Faso

Tent Schools in Haiti Green School in CanadaFree School Near Home in Cambodia A School for Everyone in Nepal

School for Maasai Girls in Kenya Tiny School in IranCave School in China Village School in Uganda

School for Orphans in Honduras Refugee Camp School in NepalNomadic School in Russia Portable School in Thailand

Virtual School in New Caledonia Street School in ColombiaBus School in India Train Platform School in India

School for Children with Sensory Impairments in the United Kingdom

What makes

a school

?Compare Lesher to the school you were assigned.

(individual activity)

What is the same?

What is different?