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This is the second page in which we say an
official 'Thank you' to some of our younger members who have been
raising funds for Pageant during the past few months.
Dame Tipping School
Viv Morris, the Head teacher of the Dame Tipping CE Primary School
in Havering-Atte-Bower, Essex contacted us last year after having
read about Pageant on the website. She was looking for a way of
sponsoring two children in The Gambia and decided to approach us to
see if we could arrange things for her.
After some correspondence and discussion she decided that the school
would sponsor two little brothers, Abdoulrahman, then aged 5, and
Yusupha, aged 4. As Kemo was coming to visit us we suggested that he
should come with us to give a talk to the children and this offer
was duly accepted.
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some of the Dame Tipping
children
pointing to a picture of Abdoulrahman and
Yusupha >> |
During our visit to the school we were told how the sponsorship
would be raised. The children themselves devise games and
competitions and charge each other to play them. This goes on for a
large part of the Spring Term and is a source of great activity and
enjoyment to teachers and children. This year the games included:
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"Name the cat/dog/teddy bear etc"
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"Score a goal"
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Cake Bake
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Pin the nose on the clown
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Guess how many sweets in a jar
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Gloopy treasure hunt
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Quizzes
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Art competitions
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School comic - made and printed by the children to sell
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Ball bouncing
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Racetrack challenge
with the children managing to run at least three activities each
lunchtime. You can see some of the children enjoying their
activities on
this page of
the Dame Tipping School website. (see
also their homepage)
Their aim was to raise £180 for the boys' sponsorship, and at the
beginning of April, Viv sent us a cheque for £210. Some of the
'extra' money will be used in September, when the school expenses
are at their highest and family income is low, and the rest for some
special things for the family to enjoy at Christmas.
Our thanks go to all the children and staff at Dame Tipping School
for their enthusiastic support and friendship to Abdoulrahman and
Yusupha - Viv tells us that: The children consider the (Gambian)
boys to be a part of our school - as one child put it "the two boys
in Dame Tipping School who don't have to come to the lessons"!
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