Our first day at Say Ta Nar

Children are dropped off safely for 9:00 start


Shoes are always left outside the school

This was a very special day! We met the 109 children and 3 teachers who make up the Say Ta Nar community with Pho Cho and his wife Neisha who also live in the school with their two children. The school is a house on stilts with Kindergarten 1 and 2 taught underneath the house and grades 1 to 7 on top. It is a very busy school with little space to manouevre but it is an impressive learning environment. Children are taught many subjects and we saw the children learning English, Maths, Social studies, Thai, Music and Art. There are volunteers who come in to teach a lot of these subjects. The children were incredibly well behaved and industrious showing an eagerness to learn. They made an impression on all four of us and we couldn`t stop commenting in awe that ,with so little , they were achieving so much.

Kindergarten taught underneath house

Children are happy to be at school


We went on to share some information about Pirniehall handing out the letters and photographs from our children from P1 to P7 and they are keen to write back . The volunteer English teacher will help support this. We handed out the Pirniehall pens to greatly excited children and then put Pho Cho`s tartan tie on for him, to the hilarity of the school and staff.We have great video footage of all of this to share with Pirniehall. The children had prepared a selection of English songs for us and it was simply a joy to be there and hear their enthusiastic singing. We have again captured it all on video...they ended with Auld Lang Syne! Almost as good as Pirniehall children at a Friday Get -together.

The children are bemused by their new Scottish teacher