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Bishopsgate School is a
co-educational preparatory school in Egham, Surrey. In August 2008,
they
donated £500 to Pageant for use on any project. This money was raised by a
sponsored walk in Windsor Great Park following a social gathering at
which Pippa and Ian met one of the teachers, Nigel Budd. He was
interested in the work Pageant does in The Gambia and organised the
event to support us.
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Bishop's Waltham Junior
School (formerly known as Ridgemede Junior School) have a close relationship with
Abuko LBS, and children in their Worldclass club have their own penpals at Abuko. They have raised
money in various ways to provide education equipment, and are
funding the sponsorship of a set of triplets at Abuko. They have now
also established a link with Serrekunda LBS. For more details, see
Pageant's
Bishop's Waltham page.
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Bramley School is a girls independent
Preparatory School in Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey. They have
provided play equipment for the nursery classes at
Bakalarr
BCS, and furniture to
Abuko LBS and
Campama LBS.
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Chestnut Grove
is a comprehensive school in Balham,
South London, which has academy
status, as a specialised Art College, but also covers a wide curriculum, with many
students choosing the English Baccalaureate. Chestnut Grove has a
close relationship with Banyaka Lower Basic School in The
Gambia. They have annual fundraising events which pay for
the sponsorship of two Gambian students, and for various
projects at Banyaka. For more details, see Pageant's
Chestnut
Grove page.
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Christ's Hospital is an independent boarding school for boys
and girls aged 11 to 18, located in West Sussex, a few miles
south of Horsham.. They have raised considerable sums of
money for various Pageant projects, helping schools such as
Ndow UBS in Bakau and
Sinchu
Baliya LBS. The boys from
Peele A & B Houses have been running an Arts Festival each
year since 2004 to fund the sponsorship of a boy, who is
currently at Glory Baptist SSS. For more
details, see this Pageant
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Collyer's (The College of
Richard Collyer) was founded in Horsham in 1532 and after hundreds
of years as a grammar school, it is now a Sixth Form College.
Collyer's has been awarded 'Beacon Status' in Science for its
outstanding teaching. The school works in partnership with other
schools to design, develop, test and share innovative ideas to raise
standards of teaching and learning. Joe Brock, Head of Science, has
produced teaching units and resources for use in UK schools. He
adapted these for use in The Gambia, producing science and electronics teaching kits, and specially
written teacher's manuals. He has also helped to organise and teach
at several science workshops in The Gambia, together with
teams of Collyer's
students. See the following links for more information:
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The pupils of
Dame Tipping CE Primary School
in in Havering-Atte-Bower, Essex, have engaged in a lot of
fundraising for Pageant. This has allowed them to sponsor
pupils at Gambian schools. For more details, see this
Pageant page. |
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Downsend
School in Leatherhead, Surrey is a co-educational day
preparatory school, providing education from 2 to 13. They
have made Pageant their Charity of the Year for 2007-8.
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Gallions Mount Primary School
is in Plumstead, SE London. Pageant members visited
this school to help the children's fundraising for
Saloum Nursery School. For
more details see this Pageant
news item. |
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Glenesk
School is a kindergarten and nursery school in East Horsley,
Surrey. They collected a large number of packets of
vegetable seeds for Pageant at a Harvest Festival in 2005,
which were then sent to various vegetable gardens in The
Gambia. |
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Manor Green Primary School in
Crawley, West Sussex, have raised funds for and donated
materials to
Campama LBS and
exchanged letters with Campama children. |
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Ringwood School
is a secondary school in Ringwood, Hampshire, with a close
link with
Bakalarr BCS.
They have donated educational materials and sports
equipment. In 2006, the old school minibus took part in the Plymouth
Banjul Challenge, and in 2007 the IceCold teams in this Challenge
visited
the school to help with
their fundraising. For more details see
this Pageant
news item. |
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Southwater County Junior School,
in Southwater, near Horsham became an academy on 1 July
2011. The school has donated large numbers of
classroom
tables, chairs, cabinets etc. This
Pageant
news item shows some of
this furniture being packed into a container for dispatch to
The Gambia. |
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Trafalgar
Community Infants School in Horsham has a link with
Kings Kid Academy,
and the pupils of the two schools exchange letters. In December 2008
they held a Secret Market to raise funds for Kings Kid. For
more details see this Pageant
news item. |
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Warnham School is a primary school in
Horsham, West Sussex. Ben, one of Warnham School's pupils, organised fundraising events at the school
and they purchased Glowstar solar powered lanterns for the villagers
of Siffoe and Bakalarr. For more details see this
Pageant
page. |
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Westdene Primary School
in Brighton organised a pen and pencil collection for
Abuko Nursery
School (see Pageant
news item) and has a letter exchange
programme running with Albion Lower Basic School in Banjul.
During February 2012, Westdene teacher, Tom Kimber,
organised a group of teachers on a week-long visit to Albion
LBS.
See this news item. |
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William Barcroft Junior School in
Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire has donated £216.33 for
Campama Lower Basic School
in August 2008.
The William Barcroft Headteacher told us that she visited Campama
about two years before, was shown around the school by the Deputy Headteacher, and was able to talk to some of the children. On her
return she held a school assembly, told the children about her visit
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