Education Guatemala Project #14175

Magical Classroom

by Lets Be Ready

Project Report | Nov 16, 2021
The end of our school year and the beginning...

By Sofia Garcia | Operations Manager

The end of our school year and the beginning of our small vacation school

Just a few weeks ago we finished our school year, which begins in January and ends in October. During these months, we were working with every one of our kids! We are thrilled and excited for the accomplishments of every one of our kids, and for the hard work and dedication of each of our facilitators.

In October we had many activities, and we had closing events in all of our classrooms, in which the kids sing, dance, and express what they’ve learned during the year. It’s marvelous to see how social and lovely they are.

We finished with a total of 35 classrooms, and 435 kids!

We also held our third training in October for our facilitators. In this training we focused on instructions for each of our facilitators on how to develop the small vacation schools that begin November 8^th and end December 17^th, 2021. The objective of this is for our kids to be able to continue their educations, so that they’ll be able to enter public school the following year with positive growth and advancement. The classes generally finish in October and begin again at the end of January or beginning of February, but we see that all this time without educational activities affects their progress and development because it’s so much unstructured time. For this reason, we created our small vacation school, and it will be a big support for all of our students. In the coming days we will be providing updates on how our students are doing in the small vacation schools!

Thank you so much for being with us!

With gratitude,

Aula Magica Guatemala

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Video: closing October 2021 Aula Magica Guatemala!

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Sep 13, 2021
Committed to the teaching of our children

By Sofia Garcia | Operations Manager

Hello everyone,

Thanks for always being eager to hear about news from our program - this makes us feel even more committed to what we do at Magical Classsroom.

The current situation is certainly very changeable and unpredictable but Magical Classroom is committed to do everything possible with respect to providing education for our children. We do this whilst respecting the health of our valued colleagues. There are difficulties in all of our communities and unfortunately the virus has been present in all of our communities, but we’ve always striven to find a way to continue working.

All of our classrooms have been working differently depending on the communities’ circumstances. We listen to the opinions of the families, who alongside the local authorities always show us considerable support.

Some of our facilitators visit the children in their homes and others work in small groups. In certain occasions we’ve had to stop classes due to the number of Covid cases present in particular communities. This prioritises the health and well-being of our students and facilitators.

Certain facilitators and community coordinators have received a Covid vaccination and others will soon receive theirs which will hopefully allow us to continue our work.

Each week we carry out planning sessions for each facilitator and this is done in conjunction with her head trainer, Lucy, facilitators and community coordinators. During recent months we’ve completed two training sessions for all of our facilitators. We have achieved this by working in small groups and going from one community to the next. We have another training session planned for the end of September or beginning of October.

Each of our facilitators have illustrated themselves to be very responsible and dedicated to our program. We are extremely appreciative of each one of them and we have worked with each one despite these challenging times.

We really do appreciate everyone’s support.

With sincere appreciation and love,

Aula Mágica Guatemala

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Aug 6, 2021
2021 Planting trees, Planting magic

By Sofia Garcia | Operations Manager

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