Toby's responses from The Gambia - we were very grateful when the lovely people behind The Sunrise Centre (http://www.gets-sunrise.org/) agreed to facilitate a letter exchange for Toby. Toby's letter went out with Tony Nelson, the Charity Chairman. Here's how he explained to us how the whole place got involved in answering Toby's questions:
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Hello Sabine and Toby,
I thought that I might send you an electronic copy of the work of the
Sunrise Nursery class 2. They all worked on a map of their country and other answers to Toby's questions.
They had a competition to find the best work and Margret Mendy (aged 6) won. It is her work that I'm sending with a few words to explain the map from Mrs Fatou Sanneh, her Teacher on the top of the paper to explain the map.
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Hello Sabine and Toby,
I thought that I might send you an electronic copy of the work of the
Sunrise Nursery class 2. They all worked on a map of their country and other answers to Toby's questions.
They had a competition to find the best work and Margret Mendy (aged 6) won. It is her work that I'm sending with a few words to explain the map from Mrs Fatou Sanneh, her Teacher on the top of the paper to explain the map.
The Game of the Flag is a local game that many play and Mrs Sally Ceesay,
our Nursery 1 teacher has written out the rules. When I looked closely at
these I found it is very like the UK game of Noughts and Crosses but uses no
paper or pens to play. (These can be scarce.)
I also set the Skills Training youngsters Toby's question - How do you Tie
and Dye cloth and Nyimasata Janteh (aged 22) came up with an answer for
Toby. The Skills Training students are doing an NVQ type of course. More
details are on our web site.
I also featured Toby's challenge in my blog this week if you want to show it
to him, with a class picture, including Margret and the teachers.
I hope that these ecopies are ok for you. I can bring the originals back
when I come in December or ask a friend to carry and send them if you need
them sooner. Please let me know.
Good luck to Toby and best wishes,
Tony (from The Gambia)
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our Nursery 1 teacher has written out the rules. When I looked closely at
these I found it is very like the UK game of Noughts and Crosses but uses no
paper or pens to play. (These can be scarce.)
I also set the Skills Training youngsters Toby's question - How do you Tie
and Dye cloth and Nyimasata Janteh (aged 22) came up with an answer for
Toby. The Skills Training students are doing an NVQ type of course. More
details are on our web site.
I also featured Toby's challenge in my blog this week if you want to show it
to him, with a class picture, including Margret and the teachers.
I hope that these ecopies are ok for you. I can bring the originals back
when I come in December or ask a friend to carry and send them if you need
them sooner. Please let me know.
Good luck to Toby and best wishes,
Tony (from The Gambia)
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We usually wait for "real paper" to come back, but knowing that these will come by "personal carrier" makes us confident, and Toby said maybe you want to play a game of Flag this week-end. You can read Tony's blog post about the exchange, and see the class that responded to Toby, here: http://www.gets-sunrise.org/Blog/2013-14-term1.htm (scroll down to Week ending 25th October, right-hand column) - thank you so much to everybody at GETS - and we are planing on trying some tie and dye soon!
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