1. As part of the British Council’s ‘Connecting
Classrooms’ project Hornsey School for Girls raised
funds for girl’s education in Gambia helping to pay for
their fees, uniforms, books and other materials.
Last week Year 10 students Gabby, Lucy, Aiseosa
and Gulizer, along with teachers Ms Lambert and Ms
James, went to Gambia to visit a number of schools
ranging from nurseries to upper schools. They took
with them educational resources and medical supplies
donated by staff and students at Hornsey School for
Girls.
The Connecting Classrooms programme links schools
in the UK with overseas schools in order to collaborate
on global citizenship projects, improve the teaching of
global education and to exchange best practice with
our counterparts overseas.
The trip was part funded through the Classrooms
grant, via a donation from Tree of Life Charity to
support young people in participating as global
citizens and through fundraising efforts at school.
This visit will enable Hornsey School for Girls to grow
its’ international links with schools in Gambia. It will
also help to develop understanding and reciprocal
learning among students in Gambia and at Hornsey
on the global citizenship theme of identity and
belonging; develop our cross curricular and
international curriculum e.g. History in particular anti-
slavery, Religious Studies, Geography and the Arts;
and will also provide educational and medical
resources and funding to sponsor girls from
particularly poor families in order that they can gain
access to education.
A return visit to the UK is being planned to bring Mrs
Fatou Barrow Jammeh Headteacher of Jenny and
Linda’s Nursery to visit Hornsey and other London
schools in January 2016. Hornsey student Gabby
said:
“We are proud to be her hosts and have so many
things that we want to show her.”
TRIP TO GAMBIATRIP TO GAMBIATRIP TO GAMBIATRIP TO GAMBIABravo to all of you but most to the girls who worked tirelessly to see
what they had achieved on their first trip to the Gambia. They were in
the sun painting our walls, marching a long way with the scout band &
back in the evening to join us again in the celebration till dusk. They are
heroes and I admire them a lot. Lots of thanks to you all, I wish you all
the BEST.
Hornsey School for Girls is now part of our school. We will learn so
much from each other, students and teachers. We aim to offer students
the opportunity to become pen pals and to share understanding on
identity. In future I hope that there will be exchanges to continue to
build on this.
A trip of this nature is a huge undertaking and in many ways very
challenging - for adults, let alone young people. We are so incredibly
impressed with how the girls have conducted themselves this week.
They have been enthusiastic, hardworking and thoroughly embracing of
all that they have been asked to do. They have not only managed the
challenge- both emotional and physical, but have done so with a huge
smile, warmth and humour.