Guest speakers

This week we were lucky enough to have two wonderful people come to our school to speak to the grade 4 children about leadership.

First we had Karen Skelly (Secondary school counsellor) talk to the students about being a leader at ISPP. Why it is important for students to have the opportunity to lead and important characteristics of a leader.

Today we had the Indochina Starfish Foundation Country Director-Vicheka Chourp talk to the children about her organisation and in particular their school know as the "Dumpschool"

Making a difference, one child at a time.



Check out their webpage http://www.indochinastarfish.org/

The Indochina Starfish Foundation (ISF) is an International Charity which helps some of the poorest, most disadvantaged children in Cambodia.

The Starfish Story

The Starfish Story encapsulates our belief that each and every one of us can make a difference, one child at a time.

“The tide has gone out and has left a million starfish stranded on the beach. They are slowly dying under the heat of the sun. A little girl is walking along this beautiful sandy beach. As she walks along, she picks up a starfish and throws it back into the sea. She then picks another one and another, throwing each into the sea. An old man watches her for a while then walks up to her and says “What are you doing little girl? There are millions of starfish out there dying. You cannot believe that you can make a difference”. The girl kneels down, picks up a starfish, throws it into the sea and says “I made a difference to that one”.

We were really lucky to have these two wonderful speakers who inspired the children.

I really like what Miss  Karen had to say to the children about how we all have the attributes of a leader in us, that we are all leaders, we just need to find it in us.



She also spoke about how good leaders are surrounded, surround themselvs with people to support and advice them. All these people working towards the same goal.









The starfish foundation does an amazing job working with families and children to educate them. They particularly work with 9-10year old children that have dropped out of school, trying to catch them up. They then send them back to school.



Working to educate one child at a time.