Beehive School has come up with a list of things that they need aside from money for the new building. The money raised on this site will go to the building of the new school, unless you specify something else. Here is a list of the some things the school needs. You can easily specify what the money should be spent on in the ‘comments’ section on the donation page. These are in order of priority of importance.

Books – for teachers and pupils. Want to buy books from Anglia Books, a UK company with a Malawian franchise, and CGP a UK company with great books for pupils and for teachers reference.
Basic resources like pens, crayons, notebooks, paints etc
Desks, chairs and shelves
Clocks
Musical instruments
Maths/science equipment
More computers + printers
Photocopier

There’s more, but we don’t want to dream too much…little by little as they say in Mzuzu, Pang’ono pang’ono…

Thanks to the Scotts Valley Rotary Club for donating money for books on our wishlist.  We bought:
Classworks Numeracy Teachers Resource Book (6 books levels 1-6)
Classworks Literacy Teachers Resource Book (7 books levels R-6)
Teaching Children to Learn
Teaching Children to Think
There’s No Need to Shout!: The Primary Teacher’s Guide to Successful Behaviour Management

Thank you to Stanford African Students Association for donating $100 towards BeeHive School.  The money will be used towards the cost of the new buildings.  We presented at one of their meetings, and got a lot of good advice and contacts about how to help and improve the school!

Despite the heat, dust, limited space and resources, the teachers and students have been doing very well. Beehive School is preparing for a spelling bee! It will be the first spelling bee at the school, so everyone is getting very excited. The school has broken into four houses – Lions, Cheetahs, Leopards, and Tigers, and are getting ready for sports day.

A new temporary classroom is about to be built, along with another pit latrine. Although these will help the ever-expanding school, the school still has to turn away students. The school is getting a really good name and a lot of people want their children to attend, but Beehive wants to keep the class size to under 30 students per class.