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The Gambia
The Real St Lucia
School
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.
Here is Boraba Lower Basic School.
There is a Nursery at school built a few years ago.
There is also a private nursery about 40 minutes donkey ride away
at a Fula village called Korrop.
Children might stay at this nursery until after they reach school age
to save them walking so far.
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 11
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 lessons the same as 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. The mothers prepare them and bring them to school
How often and why do you use water? How will these boys use it?