Taita Central School

Taita Central were into their 2nd week lesson before the school holiday.
They are very fortunate to be taught by not only an ex Taita College Computers HOD Patrick Harlow, but Patrick also taught Computers in Homes intake at Taita College.

Please follow this post as I will be visiting the classes to capture their educational journey in the digital world.

Dyer Street School in Training

Commenced 26th March 2013.  Dyer Street School are storming through their classes to become computer savvy users.  They struggled at first to fill their allocated numbers, but once the families of the school were better informed of the programme, they were all keen to begin.
Dyer Street School has been in training for 6 weeks for class 1 and 5 weeks for class 2.
Kristine Saunders has been teaching the class at a rate that is not intimidating to the participants.  We have a mixture of race, gender and age group within the classes as well as comedians.  Kristine had one aunty (who looks after a child 50% of the time as her mother is on evening shift work), when she was handed a task - typing out a cookie recipe, she said to Kristine "do you have anything harder then this?", coming from an aunty who had next to no skills in digital literacy.
We have others walking in saying "Kris, you know I only come to eat those yummy biscuits you bake for us aye?".
The sense of humour amongst these members is so catchy, I found myself giving them a ribing as well.
I look forward to when this school graduates which is:

Dyer Street School
Computers in Homes Graduating Parents Celebration
Venue:   Dyer Street School Hall
Date:      18th June 2013
Time:      6.00pm

St Michaels School in Training

St Michaels parent have taken to the digital world like a house on fire!!
These families are such a clever, comedian bunch of women who in no time were helping each other out or laughing at there own learning adventures.
The women have set aspirations they will achieve by the end of their lessons.  Before the school holidays, St Michaels Parents were in their 4th Computers in Homes lesson.
I look forward to visiting the classes just to see their smiling faces when their sharing their knowledge with their class mates.  I look forward to watching these lovely ladies celebrate their achievements as they graduate from their Computers in Homes Programme.

St Michael School
Computers in Homes Graduating Parents Celebration
Venue:   St Michaels School
Date:      13th June 2013 
Time:     9.15am  

Below is a little slideshow of the classes.

Taita Central School

I would like to welcome the new Computers in Homes School Taita Central.
Taita Central began their first class on 8th April 2013.
I look forward to visiting the parents who will be in training in the school term 2.  I am sure the parents will be coming back from the school holidays with such enthusiasm and eagerness.