My last day at Yinhe School

The time has come, the day has arrived, I’ve taught my last class and now it’s time to say goodbye. I’ve finished my second teaching contract here in China and I thought it would be nice to look back over the last 9 months and my experience teaching in a primary school. You may have seen some of my exploits in these previous posts classroom antics, bittersweet ride to work, staff tour to see the flowers and the day we got beer at lunch. Today however I’ve gathered some never before seen photos like this one.

Student Feedback - don't take it personally

I also took some pictures of the school grounds to give you a better idea of where all this took place and put them together in a video slideshow. Even better, I’ve used the song that gets played everyday at the end of school over a loud-speaker system in every room so you can have the full experience.

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In the classroom

I realised that I haven’t spoken much about my new contract at Yinhe Experimental Primary School (I think I’m the experimental part). Well in brief I teach the lower grades 1 – 3 while Margaurita teaches the higher grades 4 – 6.  The age of most of the kids in Grade 1 is 7, in Grade 2 they are 8 and in Grade 3, nine years old.

I can't hear you.... (yah right, 40+ kids are as noisy as hell)

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