Friday 11th October 2019

This was another extremely enjoyable day, although it was very tiring, as it involved travelling to Maskeliya and back again. I left with Rachelle at 08:00 and we didn’t get home again until gone 18:00. We went to Maskeliya to deliver the same Team Building Training Day that we delivered at Nuwara Eliya yesterday.

The day followed the same format as yesterday’s Training Day, but it felt quite different with this group of staff. They worked in two teams, as the teachers did yesterday and one team delivered a lesson on submarines, whilst the other team did theirs on ancient Egyptian pyramids. The big difference today was how badly the teachers behaved when they were watching the lessons and they had to be the students! I thought it was going to descend into chaos at one point, but the Trainee Teachers managed to hold it together with a bit of help from me. The feedback I got afterwards was extremely positive, as they all felt they had learned a lot from the experience. 

These past two days will be etched into my memory for some time to come, as I have enjoyed them both immensely. Both groups of staff have been an absolute pleasure to work with and they inspire me to do my very best to help them succeed. I am genuinely surprised how much I have grown to love Sri Lanka and the people here in such a short space of time!

Much as I enjoyed yesterday and today, it also left me feeling quite exhausted and I fell asleep for a while on the journey back from Maskeliya to Nuwara Eliya. I have worked very hard preparing for and delivering these two INSET Days and I have a real sense of satisfaction that they both went so well, but I am also looking forward to the weekend so that I can have a bit of a break. 

 All the photographs today were taken from this second Training Day.
















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