So this is the school.
Built outside of town about 10 years ago, so everything is quite new and fresh. All in one rambling multi-story building going up the side of a quite steep hill (most of Amman is hilly).
Like all the schools here, and particularly the private ones, it has a bit of a tendency to look like a prison.
They all have steel barriers surrounding them on top of the surrounding high stone walls. Because students can’t go off site, pretty much for any reason, they have huge barriers to prevent balls being kicked out, which you can see on the left of my first photo. (In some of the schools the wire extends over the top of the play area too, so the children are effectively in a giant cage.)
And here is the entrance (with my bus to the right ready to take me home).
The main gates are closed all the time (presumably they are only for deliveries of bulk material). There are guards on all the time, and everyone has to go past them. Staff have ID cards, which we have to wear all the time, and visitors are checked out thoroughly and then given visitor cards. The only other entrance is at the back, where the buses go deliver the students, and it is also guarded. Staff and students stay on site for the whole day, unless it is an organized trip out.
Apparently at least one of the guards is armed.
All the private schools are like this, except the American Community School, which is high security. That has armed guards outside all the time, and it has unmarked buses.
This is the playing and lunch area at myschool. By local standards it is extremely large and well provided – the advantage of having a new site out of town.
By comparison, this is the football area at one of the primary schools in Salt, a nearby town.
The photo makes it look bigger than it is, which is smaller than a tennis court. The only other space at that school is a similar space, fully paved, just with a huge shade-cloth over it for the summer sun. No schools have grass areas.
It's all quite different from the space and greenness of NZ.
Built outside of town about 10 years ago, so everything is quite new and fresh. All in one rambling multi-story building going up the side of a quite steep hill (most of Amman is hilly).
Like all the schools here, and particularly the private ones, it has a bit of a tendency to look like a prison.
They all have steel barriers surrounding them on top of the surrounding high stone walls. Because students can’t go off site, pretty much for any reason, they have huge barriers to prevent balls being kicked out, which you can see on the left of my first photo. (In some of the schools the wire extends over the top of the play area too, so the children are effectively in a giant cage.)
And here is the entrance (with my bus to the right ready to take me home).
The main gates are closed all the time (presumably they are only for deliveries of bulk material). There are guards on all the time, and everyone has to go past them. Staff have ID cards, which we have to wear all the time, and visitors are checked out thoroughly and then given visitor cards. The only other entrance is at the back, where the buses go deliver the students, and it is also guarded. Staff and students stay on site for the whole day, unless it is an organized trip out.
Apparently at least one of the guards is armed.
All the private schools are like this, except the American Community School, which is high security. That has armed guards outside all the time, and it has unmarked buses.
This is the playing and lunch area at myschool. By local standards it is extremely large and well provided – the advantage of having a new site out of town.
By comparison, this is the football area at one of the primary schools in Salt, a nearby town.
The photo makes it look bigger than it is, which is smaller than a tennis court. The only other space at that school is a similar space, fully paved, just with a huge shade-cloth over it for the summer sun. No schools have grass areas.
It's all quite different from the space and greenness of NZ.
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