Remember in my last letter I told you about Lydia, our house girl who lives with her younger sister, Grace. Well, I thought that I would talk to her and ask her some questions about her school. This is what she said,
‘My day starts before 7 o’clock. I catch the drop taxi at 7 o’clock, and the journey can take up to half an hour. When I arrive at school I go into the classroom to find my friends. Then Aunty will come in and will start lessons. I have to put my hand up to answer questions, and if I don’t know the answer I hope that others do!
We work through the morning, and then we have a break for lunch. I take some money to school to buy a snack. Then we have more lessons, and we finish school at 1.30. On a Friday we finish early at 12 o’clock
We do a lot of different lessons; mathematics, English, social studies, home economics (which is about cleaning and washing, but not cooking), agricultural science (which is about planting crops), elementary science, drawing and painting.
I have a little homework some days. I like school and I have lots of friends there.’
As you can see from the photo, Grace has to wear a uniform. Lydia has to buy this, and other sportswear. Lydia also has to pay for any books that she uses.
A lot of Nigerian children do not go to school because their parents cannot afford the money for the uniform or books. Grace is one of the lucky ones.
She is in Primary Five .Usually when the children reach Primary Six they take an exam to see if they can go on to secondary school.( She calls her teacher Aunty, although she is not really her Aunty!)
Grace does not do any singing or dancing or PE in her school, and there are no computers. They have a party at the end of each year where they have singing and music and dancing.
Grace loves school, and she says she works hard!
Quite a lot of differences to your day at school, don’t you think?
The following are photos of the school opposite us which is very similar to Grace's school.
Please don’t forget to write comments on the blogsite. If you want to ask Grace any questions, then I will get her to reply to you. I think that I have answered most of your questions from the first blog, just Elizabeth and George….I don’t get any newspaper myself. There are a lot of Nigerian papers (which are all in English) like the Daily News and the Daily Trust. They are full of news about different people in Abuja and Nigeria, and have things like full pages saying Happy Birthday to their president and important people! Yes, I am certainly missing you all!!
I still haven’t had any ideas for good titles for the blogsite….so , come on…get thinking!
There is a really good website if you want to know more about Nigerian life.
www.motherlandnigeria.com
Lots of love to you all, good luck with learning all those Christmas songs, and hope that you enjoy your Working Together week…it sounds great fun!
Mrs Sanchez xxxxx
2 comments:
Hello Mrs Sanchez
We hope you are alright, and thank you for your letters we really enjoy them.
We have been working together this week. We have been sewing wool and wrapping wool around card to make a collage picture of one of the paintings in the entrance corridor. We have been working with the same colour group from different classes in the hall.
If you are a year 1 person you helped the children in reception.
We drew around our hands on green paper and then we cut them out. We put glitter on some of them. Then Mrs Edwards made our hands into a tree, she is very clever.
We have made snowflakes and we put glitter on them. We have made torn trees, winter trees, Christmas trees, fabric trees and wool trees. We printed blue skies, we have made pictures of ourselves to go around the top of the hall.
The hall looks very different, it looks like winter. It looks fabulous!!!!
The weather here is rainy and soggy. The clouds are black and it is cold.
We will write again soon to Grace and tell her about our day at school, but we ran out of time today.
Lots of love from class 2.
Hello Mrs Sanchez,
How are you in Nigeria? This message is from Gardening Club. We won some hedge bushes but where can we plant them? We have had a look around the school but we couldn't think of a place.Could you help us please and let us know because we would like to plant them next Monday.
We are missing you at Gardening Club
Love from us all xxxxx PS We are trying hard to behave!!!
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