Professional Documents
Culture Documents
May 2016
Objective: Education
At the start of the second school term GVI Education staff met with teachers of Navunisea District
School to look at results from the previous term and discuss where volunteers could be of assistance to
their classes. With a team of eight dedicated volunteers GVI again began offering full time support to
classes one to six of the school. Restarting small group literacy and phonics tuitions, assistance with
maths lessons and delivering full PEMAC lessons has felt like a big step towards regaining normalcy for
the students of Navunisea District School as well as teachers and GVI volunteers. The hard work of GVI
Community volunteers in the rebuilding of the reading centre has meant students have an appropriate
learning environment to engage in their lessons.
Using reading results taken at the start of last term, GVI placed students into literacy groups with peers
who have similar learning goals. With a heavy need for comprehension and reading support, literacy and
phonics have become a large portion of GVI volunteers roles at NDS. Groups are seen for tailored
literacy lessons two to four times per week depending on the needs of the students. Students who
mural this has become a space for GVI volunteers to have as a base at school and more importantly, a
place where NDS students can be excited to come to learn.
UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. Its not.
-Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)
GVI; the community of Dawasamu District and Navunisea District School have been incredibly lucky to
have many caring GVI Volunteers, GVI staff and members of the community work so hard towards GVI
regaining a full presence at Navunisea District School. With this dedication shown by many people the
GVI education team are back working a full education project just two and a half months after Cyclone
Winston. Vinaka Vaka Levu.