My new school is called the Banjul American Embassy School (but is a little bit outside of Banjul in Fajara where we live) and all my friends are very nice. I am in the kindergarten class. It is not a nursery class, but just that the American names are different. There are only five children in my class and they come from the United States, Gambia and the Lebanon. My class has its own playground with a slide, swings and a climbing frame. My teacher is called Mrs Sohna and she is from England. She is very nice and never puts anyone in “time out.” We have a raffle every Friday where we can win prizes. Every time we do something good we get a raffle ticket and Mrs Sohna picks the winner each Friday. So far I have won a game of snap and a big, shiny dice.
At the moment we are learning a lot about fish and have a tank with goldfish and a tank with guppies in our classroom. We have to help look after them, feed them and change the water each week. We got to name the goldfish. The girls chose the names “grace” and “nemo” and the boys chose the name “Ben Ten.”
I have a lot of the same lessons as at Manorside. We learn letters, reading, maths and music. I have some new lessons like golden time (playing) and French. I have PE lessons, but the games are different. We play Chinese football and dodgeball. In Chinese football you have to hold you hands out in front of you and try and hit the ball with them (like in volleyball). If you miss and the ball goes through your legs you have to put one hand behind your back. If you miss again you have to put both hands behind your back and then I am not sure how you are meant to hit the ball. This week we did gymnastics and I learned to do forward and backward rolls.
The best thing about my school is that every Friday is a half day!
Things that are the same:
1) We do reading, writing, maths
2) We have computer lessons
3) We have PE
4) We go outside for playtimes
Things that are different:
1) We do not wear a uniform
2) There are no school dinners, you have to bring a packed lunch
3) School starts very early (just before 8am)
4) There are swings in our playground
5) We can win a prize every week in the raffle
Hi Amile, It's Rhys Wintle here, it was really nice of you and Elise to send me a lovely Winnie the Pooh book, I really look forward to reading it, but as I'm only six days old I'm just getting the hang of things at the moment, maybe I'll ask mummy and daddy to read it for me.
ReplyDeleteI love your blog, it sounds as though you are having a great time over there, I would love to come over to see you but so far the furthest I've been is in to Rochester in mummy and daddy's car, perhaps I'll give it a few weeks.
I hope your head is feeling better, I had a bit of a sore head this time last week but am feeling much better now. Mummy and Daddy are being really nice to me, although daddy gets a little bit cross when I need to have a new nappy at 3 in the morning. Oh well, I expect he'll get used to it. Better go, time for a bit of a sleep.
Love from Rhys (and family)
Hi Amelie,
ReplyDeleteI loved reading this! It reminded me of when I went to school in Nigeria when I was 6. We started school very early there too and finished every day early after lunch!
I think there were more than 5 children in my class though.
Your school sounds great, and half term sounds even better! Hope you enjoyed Halloween, and won't miss the fireworks too much,
love
Katie (and Zoe and Jack) xx