STA staff

On this blog you read a lot about the students who attend STA. This week we would like to tell you about some of the people who work at STA and make sure the students learn, eat and get to school each day.

Teacher Leonard
Teacher Leonard started at STA when the school opened in June last year, that makes him the first STA teacher. He teaches our Standard 2 and 3 students (Grade 2 and 3). He is also our Swahili teacher. He comes from Nairobi in Kenya.

What do you like about teaching at STA?
All the staff at STA are passionate. It is a great place to teach.

Where did you teach before you came to STA?
I taught at a school in Kenya. It was overcrowded. There were too many students and not enough teachers.

Which subject do you like teaching the most?
I enjoy teaching Maths and English.

Teacher Lauren
Teacher Lauren started at STA in January this year. She teaches the Prep and Standard 1 students (Kinder and Grade 1). She is also our Visual and Performing Arts teacher. She comes from Melbourne, Australia.

What do you like about teaching at STA?
I think all the students are fantastic and they love learning, they also love dancing and singing. The students work really hard. I find it very difficult to learn Swahili and so I understand how hard it must be for them to speak in a different language, English, at school every day. They are real chatterboxes though and never let language difficulties get in the way of talking!

Where did you teach before you came to STA?
I taught at a school called Wilmot Road Primary School in Shepparton, Australia. It is a great school and I miss the students and staff there. I was very happy I could visit them when I went to Australia in September.

Which subject do you like teaching the most?
I really love teaching English, especially reading. It makes me very happy when a student learns to read a new word.

Mugi
Mugi drives the school van. He picks up students in town in the morning and then drops them home at night. Without Mugi, some students would have to walk for more than an hour to get to school. He plays great music in the van which we love listening to, especially a song called 'Chichi Buddo'by Father Goose. Mugi has been working with The Baobab Home, the organisation that runs the school, for more than 5 years. He has driven the STA van since the school opened last year. He comes from Tanzania.

Baba Davi
Baba Davi is the cook here at STA. He makes delicious and healthy meals for us to eat. We love when he makes pilau on special days. We also love meat and gravy. He has to serve 25 students, and the teachers, and the pre-school kids and all the other people that work and live at the farm. Baba Davi started working at STA last month. He comes from Tanzania.

There are so many other people who help out at STA. Some people come all the way from places like the USA, Sweden, and New Zealand to help out at the school for free. They are called volunteers. Lots of Tanzanian people help out as well, including some parents of students. We hope to tell you about all these people in another post. Stay tuned!

Questions:
1. What does Mugi do? Why is his job important?
2. Which countries do the 4 staff members that you read about come from?
3. Which job would you like to do if you could choose (teaching, driving or cooking)?
4. List all the people that work at your school? How many are there? What do they do?