King'ori

The primary school at King'ori is some distance from the township and I suspect a good population from the King'ori village actually attend Kwatulele Primary School. The actual township of King'ori would be a good place to film a western movie because while there are shops there, they seem to do little business until market day when the area become vibrant and busy.

I still can't quite figure out if I can claim King'ori Primary School as a success or not - then if it does not spring to mind as a success then maybe it is the antithesis. The teaches there were friendly and respectful, but my impression was that they did not see that planting trees was necessarily an important activity for the students to spend time on.
Maybe that attitude did change when there was a big flood and the student toilet block tipped into its pit! So the school harvested some Grevillea robusta trees that grew in the school grounds, had them pit-sawn into timber to build new toilets.
Perhaps another reason for the lack of enthusiasm for our projects was that they were not involved in the Primary Schools Assistance Project or the food relief project.

We carried out our environmental programme there and the kids participate well in the classroom secession. Their plantings too progressed well but wandering stock did take their toll. In the second planting programme - after the flood - a spare area of ground beside the school was planted.










The first of the prizewinners for the best tree were all boys - picked by the environmental teacher - that is not to say they didn't deserve the prize but not one girl? Odd that later in life the caring of trees would generally be the duty of the females in the family.










Another privileging hand shakes from the school leadership, the Head Teacher.










It was pleasing to see that by the final prize-giving there were two girls who were awarded prizes. Perhaps after all we taught humanities as well as environmental matters. I hope so.