An insight to School in Cambodia: Pupils attend Government schools in the morning and English school in the afternoon for one hour! The curriculum and methods I have been used to as a newly qualified teacher are unheard of, this much I expected... but I don't think I was prepared for how schools operate here. I am in a very well established, successful school with high ambitions and keen to progress to offer more and more for the pupils, which is fantastic! We are in the process with VCDA of creating a football and volleyball playing area! Many schools operate using textbooks which are both boring and irrelevant to Cambodian lifestyle, using names, places and aspects of lifestyle that are completely alien to a child here! However, I have not used a text book once at
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