School term III has officially begun yesterday, and it is the last and most significant term of the year, as students are busy getting ready to sit for their final exams.
As per the government school calendar, the last day of school for 2025 will be held on Friday 5 December. And the long awaited holidays will commence for two full months. The new school year will begin on Monday 2 February 2026.
In the meantime, Simoshi’s Project Officers are busy in the school kitchens checking the optimal and most efficient operation of the institutional improved cook stoves (IICS).
During the first week of the term, enrollment slowly builds up, therefore the amount of food cooked is less. As such, it is important to highlight the need to always use the correct size of saucepan on each IICS, as cooks have the tendency to use smaller ones, causing damages to the combustion chambers.
This is one of the main recurring problems we see in the cooking behavior, and we put a lot of emphasis on this training topic right at the start of the term, to ensure smoke also reduces inside the building, otherwise the smaller saucepan sizes cannot push the smoke through the chimney pipes.
