Greetings from Kabafita Lower Basic School, Brikama in The Gambia 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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