Kampala

Agnes is from Kampala, Uganda. From a very young age, she wanted to become a teacher. Agnes holds a Bachelor's degree in Primary Education and has teaching experience of over 26 years. Agnes has worked in public, private and international school settings, with a concentration in early literacy skills, and has used Jolly Phonics for the past ten years. Seeing children who use English as a second language learn how to read early and improve their speech and comprehension skills is very fulfilling for her. Agnes currently serves as a Literacy Consultant for different Primary School Boards, and teaches language skills part-time at Fram Nursery vocational school, a kindergarten teachers' training institution. Agnes would like to share her Jolly Phonics experience with fellow teachers, teacher trainers and parents within East Africa through hands-on workshops and training. This would, in return, help place a firm foundation in early literacy skills among children, thus combating the literacy problem that has remained an obstacle to many children's steady learning progress today.

Mukono

Harriet is a Ugandan from Masaka district. She completed the ordinary level of education and then completed a two year teacher training course at Nakaseke Primary Teachers College, under Kyambogo University. She achieved a Grade three Teacher's Certificate. Harriet has worked with both private and international schools specialising in literacy skills. She is currently the Headmistress of New Horizon Nursery and Primary School and implemented Jolly Phonics seven years ago. She has said she will never look back because she has seen first-hand the amazing achievements in children's literacy skill. The parents and other teachers have been impressed at the way children from New Horizon schools read! It gives Harriet great pleasure to share her Jolly Phonics experience with Headteachers, teachers, parents and training teachers. She will look to organise training workshops and catch-up seminars so that participants can have fun and success with teaching reading as she has been.

Den Helder

In the Netherlands I teach, for many years, children from 4 to 12 years old. Since 2011 I'm active in education in Uganda and started working with Jolly Phonics. I saw the achievements in children and love to see how children and teachers are more active and have fun. Also the schools in the environment saw the great results in children, showed their interest and asked for help. I love to share my knowledge and that's how become a Jolly Phonics trainer. I'm in Uganda each year for three months.

Diplomat Zone Kampala

Irene is a KS1/ Early Years teacher at Ambrosoli International School in Kampala, following a curriculum based on a combination of the National Curriculum of England and the International Primary Curriculum (IPC). She also has international teaching experience in Rwanda in a school that follows the IB program alongside Montessori teaching experience. She graduated with a BA(Arts) degree in English Language Studies and Linguistics), a Montessori Nursery teaching Diploma in 2004, and a PGCE with the University of South Queensland in Australia, and she holds a Master’s degree in Education (Innovation to teaching and learning) with the University of South Wales. Irene has been teaching with Jolly Phonics for 24 years, and Jolly Grammar for 8 years. She is really impressed with how well and quickly the children learn to read with confidence and how their love for reading and writing in English continues to improve. They enjoy reading and are proud of themselves in doing so; a pride shared by Irene as she sees amazing results. Recently, she has introduced jolly classroom to her teaching and this is having a fantastic influence on children phonics learning and progression. She wants to help teachers and parents all across Africa share in the success of the programme.

Kampala

Luwam Araya is an Eritrean teacher based in Kampala. She has a diploma form Fine Arts Institute and a Certificate in Early Childhood Developmental Psychology. She began using Jolly Phonics 13 years ago in Asmara, Eritrea. Through the years she was able to teach young children to be independent and more confident readers and writers. She could see all children are able to use sounds easily to identify and read words. In Kampala, Luwam has been consulting, training and guiding teachers in both private and international schools on Jolly Phonics. She wants to enable teachers and schools to use the effective and fun Jolly Phonics synthetic approach for young and struggling learners to achieve better results, as she has previously seen.

Kampala

Nasiib has over 10 years of demonstrable professional experience in teaching and training at elementary, secondary and University level. In collaboration with Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) and the National Department of Education in Papua New Guinea (January 2012 to December 2013), Nasiib used the Jolly Phonics approach to implement the SMS Story pilot – a randomized controlled trial that tested the effectiveness of sending daily text messages and lesson plans to teachers in elementary classrooms on children’s reading ability. Nasiib is also a Results-Based Management subject expert, and he has leveraged this expertise to design and implement robust monitoring and evaluation frameworks to track children and staff performance at Greencare School. He holds a Master of Arts in Economic Policy and Planning; Master of Philosophy in Programme Evaluation; Postgraduate Diploma in Monitoring and Evaluation, and a Bachelor of Arts with Education. Nasiib is happy to share this expertise with the Jolly Family and other teachers and schools.