A successful visit to a charity funded primary school in Kenya finished on the 26th of May. The school has intermittent electricity, no inside kitchen and few textbooks, but a good family and community feel with clean nourished children. The school teaches the Kenyan competence based curriculum - The Why, what and how of competency-based curriculum reforms: the Kenyan experience - UNESCO Digital Library but the teachers do not necessarily have the knowledge that is required to teach certain subjects. We have provided the school with a computer, keyboard, and screen 5 years ago which has been extremely useful for administering the curriculum and school affairs. We have now bought them a projector and modem which allows the teachers to use the portable laptop computer and projector in each classroom. This is very popular with the children and teachers so far. We have also supplied a number of Powerpoint presentations that we have used in a secondary school in England. These have been well received. The subject matter of the donated presentations and the questionnaires which we have successfully implemented with the students at the secondary school are pasted below:
Sheffield Springs Academy STEM Nebula lectures and activities
Planet Earth, climate, nature
“46 metre Timeline of DNA an Planet Earth” (Walked outside to give a better sense of time and nature.)
“50 metre The Holocene” (Walked outside to give a better sense of time and nature.)
”El Nino and Climate change”
“Evolution’s Rainbow”
“Consciousness explained”
Health and medicine
“History of medical records, self-examination, and health portals”
“The Body - anatomy”
“The body – how it works – physiology and chemistry”
“History and explanation of Medicine”
“International Classification of Diseases”
“Mitochondria and modern lifestyle diseases”
“Reproductive physiology and childbirth – medical”
“Reproductive physiology and childbirth – social, legal and moral”
“Neurodiversity, disability and adulthood”
“Mental and community health and diseases”
Teams lectures, questionnaires and research involvement
Teams “Who do you want to share your digital health record with?”
“What did you think of the Timeline” questionnaire
“Who do you want to receive your reproductive health education from?”
“Suggestion to meet with board of governors and parents”
“Using a blood pressure machine, pulse oximeter, taking a pulse rate and taking a temperature.”
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About the Charity – Neema School Kenya Trust
HIFA profile: Richard Fitton is a retired family doctor - GP. Professional interests: Health literacy, patient partnership of trust and implementation of healthcare with professionals, family and public involvement in the prevention of modern lifestyle diseases, patients using access to professional records to overcome confidentiality barriers to care, patients as part of the policing of the use of their patient data Email address: richardpeterfitton7 AT gmail.com