NEW GUINEA ISLANDS
Lasallian Identity – My Mission By Janet Wau, Buka, AROB When my bosses (Mr. Paul Harricknen and Mrs. Hellen Harricknen) gave me that offer to work in their newly established school, I took it on board without hesitation for I already knew, it was a Lasallian Mission. My journey is a freedom of exercising my Lasallian Spiritualty to execute the Lasallian Mission: Give basic Christian Education to the young ones, evangelize and bring salvation to the marginalized, by touching hearts, teaching minds and transforming lives. My bosses with all their trust, have given me the whole responsibility to build the school, a Catholic school and so as I have the opportunity, trying my best to make it a Lasallian School. Our new school is Muana St. Joseph the Worker School. It is a small private Catholic school ranging from Early Learning to Primary. We have 78 children.
There are two teachers, including myself, and four classroom assistants. We are doing multi-grade teaching. My other colleague, Ms. Jennifer Turagei is the cluster leader for the school and she is teaching preschool, kinder garden, and prep while I am teaching grades one, two and three. We have two CA’s for each class. Ms Turagei is in charge of Administration, while I am in charge of Academics, including Curriculum and Professional Development, apart from coordinating the Christian Religious Education Program in school. My colleague and I also take an active role in extracurricular duties where we also involve ourselves with the youths and the surrounding communities. Wearing too many hats is very challenging, but I am so delighted and full of enthusiasm in everything I do because I am driven by my passion. With faith and zeal, I can do extraordinary things, and so far, I have run CRE programs, in-service, retreats and meetings, all in a Lasallian way.
MAMBU MAGAZINE
ISSUE 1 2021
25
