February
We had some visitors this month.
Ron and Sandon from The Netherlands came to see a Nursery 1 girl
they knew, bringing some pencils for her class.

Dawn and Paul came
with their daughter, Gabi, and Gabi's daughter, Emma. Gabi and
Emma were in Gambia for a week's holiday and came to Sunrise
every school day that week. They helped wherever they could and
spent a lot time teaching the game of bench ball to various
classes in Lower Basic.

Mr Saidy joined in
enthusiastically with his class!

LB2 here below,
changed for PE and practising dribbling the ball with Gabi and
Emma.

Our school team
used the strip they were given earlier this year when they took
part in an inter school competition.

Two of our Skills
1 students are using our new gas cooker to cook sausages.

They also used it
to make this banana bread.

Skills 2
were making spaghetti bolognese.

Skills 3 are out
on work experience all this term, they will be back in term 3 to
do the final practical and theoretical exams they need to pass
before they get their graduation certificate.
Nursery 3 are
playing a favourite game -

Lower Basic 4 are
busy completing a task-
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The nursery had
their annual outing this month. All three classes went to
Kachikally pool and museum in Bakau, ending as usual with a meal
on the beach.
The transport
arrives -
Excited children
line up to get on the minibuses.

The food and drink
prepared for their meal on the beach at the end of the day now
has to be loaded into the buses.


Thebuses set off
and then they arrive at Kachikally-

They wait in their
groups wondering what they will see next.

Then they see the
crocodiles!

After looking
around the pool and grounds it is time to get back on the buses
and set off for the beach where they play games

Then they sit down
to have their food and a drink before going back to Sunrise.
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January
We have a new Cookery and Pastry
teacher in our skills training centre, Mr Abdoulie Jallow.

Some of Skills 2
students are studying their notes here, they have to prepare for
exams in theory as well as in practical work.

We also have a new
nursery assistant, Sainabou Hydara. The Gambian ministry of
education like every primary class to have the date written in
full at the top of the blackboard each day. Sainabou is using
lines to show the correct placing of the letters.

Lower Basic
classes are lining up ready for assembly here, they are standing
not sitting on the floor like children in the UK because
the wind blows the sand everywhere and makes the floor too dirty
for them to sit on it.

The nursery
children are also all lined up in their classes here, ready for
assembly. Nursery 1 are in the front row and display a great
difference in size between some of the children in this class of
3-4 year olds!

If you or someone
you know is going to Gambia, our nursery are desperately short
of coloured pencils for crayoning in the worksheets they use in
maths and phonics. They have plenty of wax crayons but they are
too thick for this work.
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Lower Basic 3
students were in the bantaba learning about the different
sources of energy that could be used for cooking.

There has been a
great shortage of gas bottles for some time in Gambia but we
finally managed to get a full bottle of gas and the connector
needed to fit it to the new gas stove in the bantaba, ready to
use in cookery and pastry lessons.

Lower Basic 6 have been
experimenting with the power of magnetic attraction.
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These Nursery 1 children were
all busy in their classroom when suddenly the fire alarm klaxon
sounded the warning for a fire drill.

All Sunrise had to go quickly
to the assembly point at the gate


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