Sefton Village Christian School - Elementary Department

Big Day Out.

The Elementary Department recently had their annual educational field trip, and it was some day! 5 buses were hired and fully loaded by 7:30am with children and parents and teachers.

First Stop - A local Radio Station where some of the children were given the opportunity to sing the school song "I am a Promise". After that we continues north to Ilagan, which is about 90 minutes drive from Sefton Village where our second stop was the Coca Cola factory for a tour of the works. Unfortunately the tour had been vastly reduced from that which had been advertised but free cokes all round more than made up for that.

Third and final stop was the Ilagan Sactuary were the children were all taken for a tour through the large Victoria Caves and got to see some of the local wildlife such as Crocodiles, lizards and monkeys, before having a picnic lunch and causing absolute bedlam cooling off in the natural spring water pools.

Everyone went home exhausted but happy!

School Building Project.

Phase 2 of the building project is progressing well and should hopefully be ready for opening day in June. As you can see in the photos below it is now fully roofed, the walls are plastered, the floors have been laid and the ceilings are currently under construction. We are all very excited because as we are sure you will agree it is looking really good. Thank you to everyone who has raised money for this project, we appreciate it so much. We still have Phase 3 to build which will give us our final 2 classrooms and also we need to finish off Phase 1 which is still has a number of outstanding items to complete including plastering the back wall and painting all the internal walls and ceilings. So please continue to fund raise and pray for this work.

The above photo was taken this morning during the daily flag raising ceremony, which is always followed by a short work out to some worship music. Flag raising is at 7:30 am so it is an early start by British standards, and while Grade's 1 & 2 finish classes at 3:15pm, Grade 3 stay till 4pm! As you can see above the playground looks more like a building site with very little grass, no play equipment and piles of stones and soil everywhere. As Part of Phase 2 we hope to transform the external ground areas and make them more child friendly.

We really praise God for this school, it is such a blessing to so many people. Thank you for being part of it.