please like this page to show your support About Our vision is for the promising students of Vanuatu today to become the dynamic leaders of the country tomorrow, evoking social change for the benefit of all. Mission Our Vision Vanuatu’s Little Stars Summer School’s vision is for the promising students of today to become the dynamic leaders of the country tomorrow, evoking social change for the benefit of all. Our Purpose The purpose of Vanuatu’s Little Stars Summer School is to allow students to grow in confidence in line with their ability, acquire valuable skills and break down barriers in their learning, inspiring them to strive to achieve and continually supporting them on their road to success. Achieving our Purpose 1) Target key problem areas for Ni-Van students: i. Build up students’ confidence to speak to large audiences, giving them amble opportunity to perform in front of their schoolmates in the classroom and the general public on special nights. ii. Develop students’ problem solving skills, giving them the tools to tackle more abstract problems and really consider their learning. iii. Improve the students’ use of English, in all areas through classroom activities, but especially orally through challenging the students and them in turn challenging each other not to communicate in the pidgin language Bislama or their local languages. 2) Really push students in their learning: i. Surround them with like-minded, high ability students so that they can encourage and challenge each other. ii. Give them higher level problems to solve and activities to complete. iii. Focus on specific needs of students with a high teacher to student ratio. iv. Create competition in students throughout the normal academic year, with them needing to work hard to be part of the following year’s selection for the school. 3) Give students good examples to follow: i. Ni-Van teachers specifically selected at the school to be good role models that students can relate to, with them currently following successful pathways in their education, careers and life in general. ii. Volunteer teachers at the school with good backgrounds in education and in their work in general. iii. Qualities such as being studious, selfless and determined being encouraged and rewarded throughout the school. 4) Inspire students to succeed in education, praising the students for being the high achieving, hardworking students that they are to be selected to attend the school and guiding them through their future educational challenges. 5) Continually supporting students and their parents throughout their futures and school careers by keeping contact with them after they have passed through the school and helping to find and explore options for students who find obstacles in their schooling if at all possible. 6)Allow students to acquire valuable skills such as computing that might otherwise be unavailable to them. 7) Give teaching experience to young Ni-Van students at the end of their schooling, encouraging them to consider a career in teaching whilst arming them with valuable transferable skills that can be applied in any future career paths they take. 8) Provide a small source of income to members of the local community, with many of these people struggling to earn money to pay their children’s school fees. Company Overview Vanuatus Little Stars Summer School (VLSSS) is an extra school held for the outstanding students of year six for four weeks over the long Christmas holidays. In January 2013 the first summer school was successfully completed by thirty students from the four Anglophone schools across South Pentecost, Vanuatu. Following a very successful first year VLSSS is growing for January 2014 to take students from every Anglophone primary school across Pentecost, a total of sixteen schools. If you would like to know lots more about the project then click on the link below to visit the our website: vanuatuslittlestarssummerschool.weebly/ VLSSS has been very lucky to be supported by generous donors in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, making all of our successes possible. VLSSS has also entered into a new exciting relationship with British Friends of Vanuatu (BFoV), who have made a significant donation of over £1,000 towards the upcoming school in January 2014 to become a main sponsor of the project. To find out more about BFoV then click on the link below to visit their website: british-friends-of-vanuatu/ or the following link to visit their Facebook page: https://facebook/pages/British-Friends-of-Vanuatu/274918329191500?fref=ts A big thank you to all donors, everyone at BFoV and all its members for all of your support! General Information Vanuatu is an island nation located in the South Pacific. Pentecost is one of the larger of its 83 islands, but is rural with little development, much like most of the islands. Its a beautiful place with incredibly friendly people, but is still trying to find its way after gaining independence in 1980. VLSSS will help create the great leaders the nation needs to develop, whilst maintaining its strong customs and values that make it such a special place.
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