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This clip was filmed at Life
Nursery School in October 2004. The school is in the urban area
adjacent to Serrekunda. Pippa and Ian first visited the school
in October 2003 in order to meet two sponsored children and were
impressed by the way the school was run and by what they achieve
with the children. Pageant sent some play equipment and books to the
school and the children of Dame Tipping CE Primary School in Essex
(sponsors of the two boys) are writing to the Gambian children as
the start of what we hope will be a proper school link. Life is not
solely a Nursery School - it also has a Primary School section,
which no doubt we will be introduced to as the boys get
older. Continues after the clip.....
The class in which the two
children are spelling the words on the board has about 140
children! It is supervised by two teachers and is in a very large
room, so they are not seriously overcrowded - however, as you can
see in the video, they are sitting four to a desk... . The
biggest cheer of the visit was in response to the gift of a football
to the class and the suggestion by one of the teachers that they
should hold a girls v boys match in the playground!
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