End of term team photo including new head teacher Modou Bah far right who we help will improve standards all round. It’s been a great year with some exciting developments. We are really looking forward to the new term with Modou Bah our newly appointed Head Teacher.
We are pleased to announce a new agreement signed with ABBA primary school. This will see our graduating nursery school children through 5 years of sponsored primary schooling. Wonderful news and will ensure that are students can continue their academic studies.
The Year 2 children at Whitton C.P School have recently taken part in a 1km sponsored walk as part of their project work on Gambia and learning how different the country is to the UK.
They chose our charity to donate the £267 raised by their fundraising. The Trustees of the charity, Alan Seager, Martin Englefield […]
The Trustees had a successful trip in November and reported that things were going well at the school. The school had maintenance work carried out refreshing some of the outside paintwork. The garden has also been freshly planted as part of the school curriculum with the children learning some life long skills.
Again it was a very […]
We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who supported our Charity Casino event this year. It was great fun and we raised almost £1,000 during the evening. The BASIG team are very grateful to all of our supporters and a special thanks to Helen, Simon, David and DJ Perks who helped make […]
Mrs Jallow’s contribution to the school has been outstanding and she has made it a wonderful learning environment for the children. Her hard work and dedication to training the teachers and members of staff will ensure that her legacy lives on. We now have a new headteacher in place, Mr Drammeh, who also runs the […]
This week the trustees and members of the Build a School in Gambia charity were completely overwhelmed having received a very generous donation of £5,000 for the second year running, from the charitable trust of the late Ruth Rendell. Giving to others was always very important to Ruth and so this gift has been made […]
Still enough time to enter a team in our Build a School in Gambia annual charity golf day May 19th at Stoke by Nayland, great fun day, only a couple of places left so msg or ring me asap on 07730309670 if interested.
Well its that time of year again where we say goodbye to the next set of graduates. This year we have 11 who are leaving us and going on to the next stage. We have exciting news that we have set up a Joint Venture Agreement that will see all of our nursery school graduates attending […]
Our Trustee, Alan Seager went to the school on Friday 18 March just before the children broke up for Easter. The teachers and children alike all seemed in very high spirits and were pleased to see Alan.
Alan carried out a thorough inspection of the school both inside and out which was in very good condition. […]
