Wednesday 15th October

We left the house at 8am and it took us 55mins to get up to Holy Trinity, its only 2miles away!! We were greeted at the gate by the curate of the parish and were guided into the curates office we here met with the wonderful Mrs Finney(head of the infants school), Mrs George(head of the Girls Primary) and Mrs Williams(head of the Boys primary) we spoke about their concerns and the schools well being. It 3 schools that have such a wonderful atmosphere we were then introduced to each classroom and had a small tour of the buildings.

We left them around 11.00am and went on to St Philips. We first visited the parish office and before long I had my hands inside a printer trying to fix a small ink cartridge issue (fortunately it wasn’t too serious and we didn’t need Duncan). We were then given a drink and escorted into the school. The parish have been trying really hard to build a new hall that can be used as classrooms. It is close to be finished but unfortunately it has a whole year group(four classes) sharing it. This means there are approximately 200 pupils trying to be taught in one room. Otherwise the school has fairly good facilities and two superb headteachers Mrs McCormack(head of the Infant school) and Mrs Kamara(head of the junior). This school has an existing link with one of our schools but has unfortunately there has been no contact in three years.

Finally we visited Bishop Crowther. This is a school in a fantastic compound. The Infant school with a new head Mr Clarkson has excellent buildings with 8 large rooms that have recently been decorated. The junior school however has been struggling with the use of the old church building. Fortunately this shouldn’t be for too much as they have been given a grant by the ministry of education to build 2 new classrooms. This is very uncommon is Sierra Leone as the Ministry doesn’t have much money. This is al being overseen by Mrs Comber who has been head for over 15 years.