Inter-house sports

The upper primary students (grades 4 to 7) battled it out in the game Benchball. The aim of the game is to be the first team to have everyone on the bench by throwing the ball to a teammate on the bench and it being caught. However, the bench is located in the opposing team’s side and the other team is doing the same too and trying to prevent balls being caught on the bench. Teams had to be careful, because if one person fell off the bench, the whole team (but one) had to start again.
Results: 1st place: Kasompe, 2nd place: Luano 3rd Place: Musenga

The lower primary students (grades 1 to 3) participated in a number of Target games. One game was the Team Target Challenge where as a house team; the aim was to collect as many cones by aiming and hitting at a cone. This was a race between the other teams, lots of cheering and shouting could be heard. The other games were bowling and a coin toss which tested their fine motor skills.
Results: 1st place: Musenga, 2nd place: Kasompe, 3rd place: Luano

At Amano we want to say thank you to parents and guardians that came and cheered and supported on their children and other students.

Reported by: Mrs Miles

Secondary students participated in inter house Table Tennis and Field Hockey on Thursday Afternoon. 3 boys and 2 girls from each house played a round robin TT tournament. Sets won totalled after 8 rounds resulted in Kasompe boys on 22, Luano on 19 sets for and Musenga boys on 15sets.

Kasompe girls came second on 8 sets for, Luano Girls were first with 11 sets for and Musenga came last on 6 sets won.

Both hockey events were close with some draws and some excellent team plays, particularly by Kasompe boys. The best team goal came from Sani of Kasompe passing square across the circle and Nkwali cooly playing a first touch shot on target. There were lots of learned skills on display too which, as a teacher, was nice to see. Kasompe boys were first on 2 wins, Musenga 2nd on goal difference with Luano 3rd. Girls: Luano first with a draw and win, Musenga 2nd with 2 draws and Kasompe 3rd.

Reported by: Mr Grove

Pictures by: Mr Pflaum

Stig of the dump

The novel ‘Stig of the dump’ by Clive King was the inspiration for a cross curricula project for Grades 6 & 7. They studied the book, designed and stitched puppets and wrote plays for the puppets to perform.

Two stigs

The pupets

The creators

Grades 6&7 assembly

Grades 6 & 7 led an Assembly after the Easter holiday. They acted out the risen Jesus appearing to the disciples following His resurrection.

He's alive!

Jesus appears to His disciples

AWANA Camp

Once all the Boarding students had gone home at the end of last term, Amano was a very quiet place to be … until… about 200 young people from 9 AWANA groups in and around Chingola descended for their annual camp.

This year’s theme was Building Relationship with God. Teaching sessions were held in the big hall, they slept in the classrooms and enjoyed the wonderful ‘bush’ around the site. We even had a campfire on the rock in the middle of the field and were told this was the first ever campfire at any AWANA camp in Zambia!

Reported by: Mrs Kirk

Games

Treasure hunt

The camp fire!

Final meeting

Primary Arts Festival

After a busy first week back 12 students and 2 teachers managed to get up early to leave Amano at 6:15 to drive just over 2 hours to Simba School, Ndola. We participated in an Arts Festival and the children enjoyed trying a selection of 9 different activities.  Tae Kwando encouraged them to develop some self defence techniques, Masterchef produced some delicious cup cakes of various colours, more colours were used in the workshop on Acrylic Painting where budding artists produced some stunning sunset pictures. The Art and Craft activity gave them a chance to make necklaces or draw a swan. Some workshops were based on learning techniques and the participants demonstrated their work at a presentation to end the festival. This began with the recorder group leading us in the national anthem. Other demonstrations were from the Tae Kwando group and we were treated to some Scottish Dancing under the African sun. The African drummers shared their achievements and we enjoyed a lovely rendition of Dona Nobis Pacem (Latin meaning ‘Give us Peace’) in three parts from the singing group before watching a rhythm and stomp presentation by the Modern Dance group.

Everyone agreed it had been worth the early start to participate and enjoy such a worthwhile festival. Thank you Simba School for putting such a great morning of activities we could enjoy together!

Reported by: Miss Millard

Staffing changes

The end of term always brings about changes to Amano; teachers come and go as God calls them to serve him in different places around the world or within Zambia itself. Occasionally even students move as family situations change. The last holiday was no different. Amano lost a great servant – Miss Lukundo Siwale left us after 7 years of being here. It was an emotional time for all of us as we lost a dear friend, special teacher and colleague. Lukundo invested so much of her time and effort into the life of the school and the lives of the students with her dedication to history, business studies, drama and English Literature particularly.

It has been a pleasure to work alongside her and see her enthusiasm for her subjects rub off onto the students. She will be missed BUT God is good and faithful. Despite our fears of not having anyone to replace her, God found for us two people to take her place.
We welcome Mrs Angie Dodds, who is no stranger to Amano having visited for short periods before, to teach English Literature. We also welcome Mrs Mulemba, who is an experienced teacher of history in local schools. We pray that both of them will enjoy their time here and our students will learn much from them.

Miss Lukundo Siwale

A choral ode to Miss Lukundo

As well as some new teachers, we also welcome back a group of Amano pioneers. The McCaffrey family have re-joined Amano after a 7 year absence. Brian will be overseeing the building site maintenance, Sandra return to nursing duties and the 4 children join our school and meet up with a few old friends. It’s great to have them on campus once again and we pray God will use them mightily for his glory whilst they are here.

Reported by Mr Kirk

The McCaffreys on arrival at Lusaka