05 February 2013
Christ's Hospital visit to The Gambia
A team from Pageant are
shortly leaving for their regular February visit to The Gambia. As
well as Pippa and Ian, four students from
Christ's Hospital (CH) will be going.
We are recruiting them as members of this blog, so we hope for
up-to-the-minute reports on their activities.
Arthur, Daniel, Luke and Oscar are all senior boys in Peele B at
Christ's Hospital. Peele A & B (there are two houses in each
'block') have been raising money to sponsor Gambian students since
2004 - in latter years they have raised funds by holding the 'Peele
Arts Festival' at school, which is an evening of music, sketches,
video clips and other entertainment for which the rest of the school
can buy tickets to attend. It is always entertaining, always a
sell-out and organised by the boys themselves.
At the start of the
current school year the Peele B housemaster suggested that it would
be a good idea for some of the boys to visit The Gambia, meet the
students that they have been helping and organise some supportive
activities that they could do at schools and in village communities.
Arthur, Daniel, Luke and Oscar have thrown themselves into the
project with great enthusiasm and a rather ambitious programme has
been mapped out, for which the boys have done some fund-raising to
provide all the materials. The programme includes:
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decorating school classrooms
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art lessons and a sports day for nursery schools
-
science, maths, drama and music sessions with Primary schools
-
practical science for trainee teachers
-
football and rugby coaching
-
meeting 'their' Gambian students
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... and a couple of 'tourist attraction' visits.
As we said - rather ambitious!! They are
intending to write some blog entries during the trip, if they have
any energy left at the end of the day!! They also want to include
video clips from their trip in the next 'Peele Arts Festival', which
will be in the coming summer term.
