Future Chefs in Learning!
3rd December 2020
Being able to cook is one of the greatest and most important lifeskills, especially as it goes hand in hand with healthy living. That is why Arise School is concerned to promote and develop pupils’ cooking skills from a young age.
ACE Newsletter and Christmas Appeal: November 2020
24th November 2020
Dear Supporter(s), We very much hope that you and your family have been staying safe in these difficult and unprecedented times as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. Whilst only too aware of the impacts of Coronavirus for so many, we hope you will respond to help Arise School overcome the effects of the pandemic […]
Arise School Celebrates Its First Grade 7 Graduation!
12th November 2020
At the start of the Tanzanian school year in January this year, Arise became a full school with 400 pupils. For the first time, the eldest group of children, some of whom have been at the school since the first classroom opened in January 2013, went into Grade 7, their final year in primary school. […]
The Latest Challenge at Arise School: A New Home for a Sponsored Family
28th October 2020
It was only a couple of months ago that we received a message from Frank, the Arise School Manager, informing us of a devastating change in circumstance of two of the children sponsored through the ACE Sponsorship Scheme, a brother and sister, aged 9 and 6 years, their single parent mother and younger sister. On […]
Arise Pupils Help St. Helens Children Celebrate European Day of Languages
25th October 2020
Over the years, pupils and staff at Queen’s Park CE/URC School in St. Helens, Merseyside, have raised money and supported Arise in many ways. This year, in planning their event to celebrate European Day of Languages, Year 2 reached out to their fellow pupils at Arise to enrich their learning beyond Europe. European Day of […]
Three Hundred Laps in Aid of ACE!
25th October 2020
Over the years, out of the blue, we have been contacted by people who have read about Arise School on our ACE website, acecharity.uk and want to do something to help make a difference at the school. Just a couple of weeks ago, we received an email from Chelsea’s Dad. They had been looking together […]
A New Look for the ACE Website!
8th October 2020
Welcome to the first blog on our new look website! In December 2014, shortly after ACE was registered with the Charity Commission, we launched our ACE website. With a few tweaks over the years, it has served us well. We have posted over 200 blogs, all with photos, in order to publicise the work of […]
Return to School at Arise
2nd July 2020
Schools across Tanzania reopened their doors on 29th. June following their closure since mid March as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. In line with guidelines issued by the Tanzanian Ministry of Education, Arise staff had been busy preparing to receive the children. This included three teachers attending a two day training workshop on keeping […]
Connected through “Connecting Classrooms”: Arise and Cronton CE Primary Schools “Living as One”
10th June 2020
“Connecting Classrooms” is an international programme that promotes teaching and learning about global issues. It enables pupils to learn and work together on the big issues that face the world today. Under the heading “Living as One”, students at both Arise and Cronton Schools worked on their chosen global themes of Zero Hunger and Gender […]
Rising to the Challenge of Coronavirus at Arise School
22nd April 2020
As part of the global pandemic that is now having such devastating consequences in so many countries across the world, the first confirmed case of Covid 19 in Tanzania was announced in mid March. Today, 22nd. April, this number has risen to 254 with 10 deaths. Tanzania is a large country and the vast majority […]
