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| Many parents and family members waiting for the Headmaster to make an announcement. |
Although it's just September, we are already busy preparing for the next school year. Today, we had our first day of Form 1 Interviews (it's an exam, not an interview, but that's how it's generally referred to here). Students who would like to attend school here next year come to take an entrance exam. We had about eighty students try the exam today, and we'll have another day next weekend, as well as an opportunity to take the exam in Dar es Salaam or Mwanza (the two biggest cities in Tanzania, one on the east coast and one in the far west on the shore of Lake Victoria) for students who live too far away to travel here to take the exam. We have openings for forty-one form one students for 2020.
Since our students have done well in the national exams the last couple of years, we can now be more selective about incoming students. Let's hope we get lots of good candidates today! I don't usually come up to the school on Saturday, but I wanted to open the library for the parents of the prospective students to see if they toured the school, and it's nice to walk around and meet some of the students that I may be teaching soon.
Those who are selected early enough will be invited to come for a short pre-form class in November and December. It will be five weeks to practice English and see if the students like our school environment and can do well here. I will be teaching English for preform again this year just as I did last year. I look forward to meeting my new students!
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