Only one more week to go!

I am so sorry not to have written for so long! The excuse is that I have not been well at all. Unfortunately, I seem to have had a very severe form of food poisoning which has taken 3 weeks to right itself, and has left me feeling very weak!

However, I am now well on the mend, and actually managed a long walk in the bush yesterday, with a lot of other people. It was really quite pleasant, and not too hot! We all met up afterwards a t an outside restaurant where we had a great buffet and drinks. (Hopefully, I will not contract another bout of what I had earlier!)

I only have one more week to go before my school closes for the summer. I thought I would bring you up to date with some of the things that have been happening there since I last wrote to you. We have had three more birthdays, two children were 4 years old, and the other little girl was 1. We had parties for them all in the school hall, with cake and candles and party bags! What fun!



On May 27th it was Children’s Day. Some of the schools in Nigeria close for the day, but we decided to stay open, and have our own celebrations together. We invited parents into school, where the children showed them what they had done in school ( A bit like your family assemblies) The children were all invited to wear traditional dress and they looked really cute as you can see from some of the photos! Unfortunately, all of the children were rather dumb-struck, which meant that the teachers and I did most of the work! We started with our school song (which I have written) and then went on to a demo of our Action Kids warm up ( very like Activate) that we all do together each morning. I spoke a little about the Children’s Day Flag and then each class took a turn at showing the parents what they had done in the term. We then ended with inviting all the parents to join in the circle to sing and do the actions to the school song. The parents really loved it, and it didn’t seem to matter to them that the children had been rather quiet!!


We are very excited at school, as we have nearly 70 children enrolled for September! We have had to make another class for the 18 month – 2 year olds. We still have some spaces at the top end of the school, but are delighted that the school is such a success!


I will be teaching the oldest class (Dinosaur) in September. These children will be the same age as your reception class.

I hope that you like the photos of some of our pupils!

I will be coming in to see you all as soon as I return. So, until then, take care, have fun and be good!

Lots of love , Mrs. Sanchez xxx