Schools
Children do not have to go to school in The Gambia but parents are very keen that they should.
Find out what you can about them.

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Here is Boraba Lower Basic School.
There is a newly built Nursery.
The classes go from Nursery, then Grade 1 to Grade 6. The children might start school at any age so there are different ages in each Grade.
They may leave to go to the Upper Basic School at Janjanbureh at 13 or they may still be at this school until 15.

Children come to this school speaking Mandinka or Fula.
At some schools children will speak other tribal languages too.
Often they cannot understand each other.

All children are taught in English

The classrooms have plenty of fresh air from the open walls. Why is this?	At school the children learn about gardening so they can teach their parents and the community they live in.	Are the lessons the same or different to yours?
The children enjoy having football lessons from the football coach who travels around the schools on his motorbike.	Pupils can buy food at school.	How often and why do you use water? How will these boys use it?

Did you find out how far the children might walk to school?

How many children go to Boraba Lower Basic School?

What is in the nursery to help them learn?

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