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The Building Project

August 2006

Our school is complete and we now have toilets on both floors. We have an outside seating area on the first floor with planters. The roof has been fenced to make another outside learning area. The staffroom is on the first floor and we have a sliding gate to secure the library and first floor.

 

August 2006

Here you can see two of our students sharing a beaker of water.  

During our visit in August 2006 we purchased water filters for each classroom and the staffroom. We also gave the children their own water flask with a carrying strap. The children had great fun filling up their flasks and then squirting each other with water.

 

June 2006

Here we are, Den and Nell, in front of our new school.

What a lovely sight, the construction of the first floor is now complete. We have the school name attached to the railings on the first floor. The ground floor toilets are complete. The staffroom will move to the first floor and we will convert the old staffroom into a library during our next visit.

 

June 2006

Break time at school and time for a drink. Now the children can access water easily through out the school day, without the necessity for Kamala to take the walk all the way back down into Gorkha and carry a heavy water churn up the mountainside.

 

March 2

You can see our water tap being used to promote health education. Here you can see our children using our new tap. The staff are washing the children as part of their work on health education.

 

January 2006

Phew! Now we can spend a penny thanks to donation from ‘The Feast and Fayre’ annual fundraising event in Horndon-on-the-Hill.

I guess you may be wondering where they are ---- >

January 2006

Here is an example of a similar type of toilet I found whilst surfing the net!

December 2005

Almost there, the roof should be on by next month!

A big thank you to everyone that has attended a function, now you can see what you have helped us to achieve. The children and staff of West Hill Primary School have again come up trumps and are collecting hard to complete the library (To be named: The West Hill Library).

 

November 2005

Here you can see the tap is in use at the school.

Kamala is very happy she no longer has the long walk two to three times a day. You can also see Bisnu, our teaching assistant in the nursery, helping Kamala.

If you look through the cloud you can just about see the next floor well on its way.

October 2005

The tap area is being prepared ready for the final stage of water supply.

Thanks to Westhill County Primary School for collecting pennies for the water supply. Westhill’s additional money will be put into the library fund. They are planning to fully fund the building of the library and Priory, from Newham, has supplied the computers. Also thanks go to Woodside Primary and many of you who have also donated bottles filled with pennies.

July 2005

The cesspit has been excavated and lined ready for this new toilet block.

Thanks to the generosity of Horndon-on-the-Hill’s Feast and Fayre committee and supporters of our ‘Curry Night’, we are over halfway to building six toilets. There will be three toilets on each floor of the school providing one each for boys, girls and staff.

 

June 2005

Local volunteers from the village of Pokharatok help to dig the trenches need for our water project.  

This project will bring much needed water to the school and the surrounding village. This has been funded by Westhill County Primary School children (Dartford) and by Woodside County Primary School children (Thurrock).

THANKS GO TO BOTH SCHOOLS

 

May 2005

The construction of the next floor starts. We will be able to accommodate two more classrooms and a library. Westhill County Primary School, staff and children, have already funded books for the library and are now planning to raise the money needed to build it. The computers for the Library have been donated by Vicarage County Primary School (Newham).

THANKS GO TO BOTH SCHOOLS

 

August 2004


The first level is completed

Now classes 1, 2 and 3, our bigger classes, have moved into the new building. The room in the foreground is the new staff room.See below for the comparison between the old and new classrooms.

 


Before

 


And After

 

August 2003


Upper school children and staff will be moving into their new classes, as soon as the interior fittings and decoration are complete.

 

Early 2003

The construction of the new school is well under way! We hope to have it completed and ready for our new class, due to start in April 2004. Classes one, two and three will move over to the new building leaving the old building for our nursery/reception class and the top juniors.

 

 

2002

It was fantastic to see pictures from Nepal of the foundations in place and ready for the construction of our new school to begin. The house in the back ground belongs to our tailor Puna who makes all the uniforms for our girls.

Spring and Summer 2001

The land is cleared by local people and made ready for the foundations to go in.

April 2001

The land behind the school was then purchased to allow for expansion the following year

We partitioned the nursery class to accommodate our third class.

 

 

April 2000

We doubled in size, with two classes now running, the third room becoming our staff room. We also took on our second teacher! 

August 1999

The first full time class started.

August 1997

After a visit to the village of Pokharatok in Gorkha, Nepal, by Nell Edwards in 1997 she decided to try and help a nursery class with 20 children running for two hours a day in a damp building. (The teacher, Kabita, was going to run the class for a year) Nell decided to raise money to provide electricity, fencing and benches with the thought of setting up the school to run full time.

The rest as they say, is history!


How can you help?
Support functions held for the Building Project, or perhaps you can run a fund-raiser for us?
E-mail Den Edwards, Building Co-ordinator at: den@gorkhalearning.com