Greetings from Kabafita Lower Basic

School, Brikama in The Gambia. We are so

excited we are going to be friends. Let me show you where The Gambia

is.

Here is the world. Can you see Africa?

The Gambia is the smallest main land country in Africa. It’s on the west coast. It is shown with a red arrow.

It is a long thin country 40 miles north and south of the River Gambia.

The red arrow shows where our school is in Brikama.

The square is our school. The classes make the square. We also have a nursery.

We now introduce you to our main school building. It has six classrooms with two offices

including our head teacher’s office.

We have a vision and a mission statement. Let

me show them to you. They are

targets that are school tries to

achieve. Do your school have vision and

mission statements?

We learn English every day in class as you can see in our class time table.

We learn three core subjects: maths, English and Integrated Studies. We also learn arts, P.E. And Islamic Religious

Knowledge. Here is our timetable

Here are our school rules. Do you have

rules in England?

Hi, we sit in groups in our classrooms so that we can learn from each other. Do you do the

same in your school?

We do all our class work in our exercise books.

We copy the maths exercise from the black board into our exercise book and work them

out. Is it the same with you guys?

We learn jolly phonics in school so our teachers put on the walls our jolly phonics sounds on the

walls so that we can see and remember the sounds.

We use bottle tops as counters

when we are doing our maths sums. Do you use

bottle tops as counters to solve

your sums

There are nearly 3,000 pupils at our school.

Because there are not enough classrooms some

children come in the morning and others in the

afternoon. Most classrooms have 45 to 50 pupils.

It’s lunch time and us boys are playing football.

We hope you like our school market. We buy our food here during our break period. We buy bread and beans, pancake, ice, wonjo juice,

cooked cassava and ebbeh.

Hallo my dad is a peanut farmer and

he is currently harvesting them. So I have brought some peanuts to

school to eat.

Hello. Here is our school tap. Its very hot in The

Gambia and we drink lots of water. Every classroom has a large bucket and a

cup.

This is our classroom bucket. Learning is

thirsty work

We are so excited we are

going to be friends. We

hope you will write and tell us about your

school

For now we say good bye