3rd October

Today was going to be a really important day. Now with only one week before Duncan was going home we had to get into the secondary schools to see what computer facilities they had on offer. We visited Freetown Grammar for Boys and Annie Walsh Girls schools. These two schools are the best performing schools around. They have both been established since the mid 1800’s and are still at the top of the league tables for results. Both schools will have future leaders of this country amongst them.

So we spent the morning at the Grammar school which was fantastic and Mr Serry – the link teacher - showed us around and spoke about what they would want in a link and introduced us to some of the classes. I asked a number of questions about what the pupils knew of England, the most common response was football but we did get some good answers too. We also managed to get Duncan around the computer suite which was surprisingly good.

In the afternoon we went off to Annie Walsh. We met with the two heads and spoke about their link with Davison High school for Girls in Worthing. They talked with such excitement about what Davison had done for them and then took us around the school showing us what the money donated had done for them. It was fantastic we then met with the senior school in their assembly and introduced ourselves. Hopefully it won’t beour last visit to either of these schools.