A P1 teacher who would rather walk the class than sit and write

Miss Wanjiru is a P1 teacher living in Kiserian with her child. She holds a certificate in education. She opens Kurasa about four days a week, roughly an hour at a time, around the shape of the school day: registers, assessments, results.

She does not like sitting down to write. She likes teaching and walking the room. The manual method, she said, meant writing most of the time and rarely getting valuable interactions with learners. Kurasa, in her telling, gave the walking back.

Workload dropped because documents no longer had to be written out by hand, or researched from a pile of papers and textbooks. She connects that recovered time to the academic progress she sees. That is her attribution. It is not a controlled trial.

She also named the snags: missing marks, inaccurate entries, strands that do not load, curriculum that feels misaligned. She wants closer collaboration between Kurasa staff and teachers. And she wants parents to see assessments — especially a parent with children in Grades 4, 6 and 7, who should not have to open three separate pages.

On digital literacy she is almost wry. After Form 4 the slogan was “IT is here to stay.” She took computer classes, had nowhere to practise, and was scared to try. Daily work on a device is what made the slogan speakable.