Here is the latest Google Earth shot of Isaac Newton High School. To our knowledge, Isaac Newton High School, founded in 2005, is the first Humanist High School in the World. The school was built on a green field site and the picture shows the results of 16 years of development. The school has sufficient …
Posted: October 23, 2021 by Steve Hurd
When projects don’t quite go to plan
During our first visited Katumba Parents Humanist Primary School in July 2018 we were moved by what we found there. Katumba is a remote and neglected community eking out a living growing cocoa and food crops on steep slopes which rise to the 15,000 feet high snow-capped Ruwenzori mountains. Parents from this poor community came …
Posted: October 20, 2021 by Steve Hurd
Humanist School from Space
Here is the latest Google Earth shot of Isaac Newton High School. To our knowledge, Isaac Newton High School, founded in 2005, is the first Humanist High School in the World. The school was built on a green field site and the picture shows the results of 16 years of development. The school has sufficient …
Posted: October 19, 2021 by Steve Hurd
How teachers cope when schools close due to Covid
In Uganda, teachers’ pay is low and varies greatly among schools. In rural high schools, they earn little more than £75 a month. This covers the essentials for a family but is not enough to pay school fees for the teacher’s own children. So, most are forced to find additional sources of income. Covid has …