I was ready to come back to Abuja on 22nd August, to train the staff and then re-open the school on the 2nd September. Unfortunately, my visa (which is a piece of paper saying that you have permission to go into a country) had not come through. I was not able to return with my husband and was actually delayed until 11th September!!
I was really sad not to be at school for the re-opening after the summer break. The school has really grown now, and we have over 80 children there now! We now have 6 classes…Koala class, panda, beaver, bunny, pony and dinosaur. It is getting to be a very big school, and we only have room for about another 10 pupils…..then we are full!
I had lots of new faces to recognise and lots of new names to learn! Everyone was very pleased to see me when I finally arrived, and I felt like the queen walking in to a royal party!! I now have lots of catching up to do!!
I have just had my birthday, which was on 19th September. All the teachers gave me a huge card that they had all signed, and I bought a big cake to share with them all after school had finished. I got lots of nice greetings, cards and presents from individual members of staff…and had a lovely day. Even my secretary bought me another cake for me to take home and share with my husband and Lydia and Grace! I have included photos of the two cakes (the bright yellow one was from my secretary)
I imagine that you are all well settled into school. I hope that you had a great summer holiday. I hear that Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Cooper have swapped classes, and that there are two reception classes now! In our school our oldest children are in the reception class. Our youngest pupil is Chike and he is 8 months old!! I will include some photos of the children in my next blog.
That’s about all for now. I hope that we can set up an email link between our two schools, so that you can communicate with each other. That should be great fun!!
Take care
Lots of love from Mrs. Sanchez xxx
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