On our last visit we where shown the mother and calf classroom, a classroom for the newly arriving infant children built by the mothers of some of the children in a traditional style.

 

For a maasai infant, a traditional house in warm, dark, rounded, smokey and comforting.  A modern classroom is large, bright, angular and intimidating.  When the infants first come, the teachers bring them to the mother and calf classroom to settle in.  Invariably they return the next day, and in a few days more, are ready to join their brothers and sisters in the main classrooms.

 

 

 

On our visit to the school this time, I took a more keen interest in the headmaster’s lecturn.  My son, Joe, had designed one for his headmaster’s use at his school in England. I wondered about the differences in design and approach, the materials available, and the functionality.  The two are equally valid and to me convey an equally important platform for headmasters to deliver meaning, but the two nicely sum up the difference in resources between our two worlds….