Introduction

One day Work shop for Basic IT and English for grade 6 students of R/Nivi/Illumbakanda Vidayalaya

On 2015.04.08, we arranged a session for teaching Basic IT and English for grade 6 students. Because there is no teacher for teaching IT and English for three months since the teacher in-charge of It and English has been transferred to another school and there was no appointment teacher instead of that transferred teacher. We had those connections to receive the opportunity to teach and IT and English in school through my mother, because she was a teacher in the school in that time.

The principle of R/Illumbakanda Vidyalaya who was mr.Amarakoon called me to conduct a session for Basic IT and English for primary students who were in grade 6. Actually at the moment that We got that invitation, I depressed about it and We were not sure whether We can do it successfully or not. However, because of my mother’s service for the school, We were unable to reject the request of them and finally we allocated the day of 08^th of April in 2015 for that session.

The school is surrounded in a fully diversified environment with lots of green nature. Actually it is a school which is located in very rural area. There we hadn’t a proper transportation method for reaching to school. So we have to go on foot for 9km or we have to go for another option for hiring a wheel for reaching to school. My mother had settle down her transportation problem by hiring a wheel for each and every day in her service time of 3 years. So We were lucky to have that transportation. We arrived to school at 8.00 am and then We prepared to conduct the session.

There was my colleagues with me for the support. Actually they were very supportive to me to achieve their goals about basic IT and English meanwhile I was conducting the session. It was very hard to talk more hours because it was out of my daily routine. So we have to adopt that situation very much since we had to be more attractive with small children. Both we and my colleagues allocated some particular parts to conduct the session for Basic IT and English time to time. We organized some more games regarding the basic IT and English Basics which we taught for increasing the interactivity of students to lessons. The parents of those students in Illumbakanda village had been collected gifts for the winners of those simple games.