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Clues

Here is another way to find those pictures!

Freddy Ferret wrote these pages

Celebrations Religion
Children The River Gambia
Food and Cooking Transport
Homes Ferries
Language Water
Country and Maps The School

Stella Stoat has found out lots more

Children/families The River Gambia School Activities
Food and Cooking Transport School Buildings
Homes Ferries School Food
Language Water The School Garden
Religion Boraba School Facts School Teaching and Learning
  Boraba School Nursery  

Watty Weasel wandered the websites on the Internet to find these external sites to help on the pages above

wwwCelebrations wwwCountry wwwFamilies
wwwFood and Cooking wwwHomes wwwLanguages
wwwReligion wwwRiver wwwSchools
wwwTransport wwwWater  

Watty also found these more general sites

  For children   With adult support   For teachers

 

A Gambian Girl's Website

This has appeared on several pages but do look at it all

BBC News Report
A BBC Newsround report from a 15 year old British girl on her visit to The Gambia
Photo Album +Text
This is a report of a British couple's visit to The Gambia as they travelled all around Africa. Scroll all the way down the page to photos. This shows you the countries they visited
Photo Album +Text
There are links to pages of this site on several pages but do check it all out. It shows many photos and has very useful captions.

A Data base of photos

Charlie Dogget is much travelled. This is a data base of his photos in The Gambia.

BBC Interview
'Listen again' facilities on this site allow you to hear about how a girl from England went to live in The Gambia and she built a paper mill. It includes an account of her marriage.
Programme heard 09/08/03
The GTS site gives a back ground to her story and an update
Official Gambian Tourism Web site
The official Gambian Tourism site with lots of useful links

Gourds used as musical instruments
Dried gourds are put to many uses in The Gambia but this site gives you details about use for musical instruments as well as a brief introduction to gourds

2008The site has now disappeared but here is something similar


Twinning Schools

How to form a link with another school

 

Steve Rice

A comprehensive website from Steve who was a VSO volunteer in The Gambia. This leads to all sorts of information.

Global Eye
There are several references to this excellent education site on other pages but do check it out. Look at the other tabs at the top of each page which lead to ethical questions about tourism etc or look at this page

My Gambia
Gillian Hyde was a "Development Worker" with VSO Canada for five months. Her comprehensive site provides much information and is very thought provoking.

Global Dimension is a useful website for teachers, with a helpful guide to books, videos, posters and websites which bring a global dimension to teaching. From climate change to poverty, water to fair trade, you can find teaching resources for all age groups and subject areas. Many of them are free, and you can search for resources about particular countries using the database. You can also read other teachers' experiences and views, and learn about local support, professional development and school speaker services.

Scroll down to type in 'Gambia' under 'Country'

The Geographical Association have developed resources for Unit 22 based on The Gambia. Click on the icon for a range of resources.
Click here for a direct link to the shop to purchase:-
SuperSchemes Unit 22:
A contrasting overseas locality: The Gambia
Author: Des Bowden and Pam Copeland
Series editor: Paula Richardson and Emma Till

Aftefacts to buy and more!
Malika is a web site selling a variety of goods from West Africa. Musical instruments, cloth goods, recycled items, beads and jewellery etc are available. They could be very useful if you wish to build up some sensibly priced resources. Look at the Links page too for more useful sites.

Black Baby Dolls Direct

This is a web site providing black, mixed race and oriental baby dolls anatomically correct and in various sizes. They do accept official orders from schools via FAX or emails

ICT Skills help guides

There are many ICT skills you may need when using Net- Ferret.
Stella Stoat provides help with ICT skills.

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