Quiz Night Raises £930!

Team Gambia had a fantastic night on Friday night, with a fabulous fundraising effort at the Quiz Night. Massive thanks must go to Vice Principal Janice Hamilton who led the organising of this event. With Assistant Principal Mike Padbury and a team of student volunteers (see them pictured blow), the event raised £930!!!

The event was a general knowledge quiz with an Oscars twist, run by ex-member of staff John Ingham. Some of the questions were pretty tough, but in the end just half a point separated first and second place from the 16 teams that were competing. Many thanks to staff and parents of Team Gambia 2014 who made up the majority of the teams competing. With food and drink, not to mention a raffle, a great time was had by all!

That £930 goes into the Team Gambia 2014 fundraising pot and with students also making great progress in their fundraising targets, we are well on our way to raising a significant amount of money for the Jemus Jungkung Jammeh Memorial Nursery School in Abuko.

Langley School Support Fundraising Effort

Now that exams are over students are charging ahead with fundraising plans and one of our partner schools are getting involved too.

We need to say a big thanks to Langley School, who are supporting Hannah Patmore, Olivia Howse, Divyani Chauhan, Sammy Lee, Alex Atkins and Lucy Buckle in their fundraising efforts. The students will have a stall at the Langley School Summer Fete, which takes place on Friday 11 July. On top of that, the school has given the students the opportunity to raise money at an event that Langley are calling "Africa Day" on the 8 July; they will be selling drinks and snacks to the pupils and spectators.

As if those two things were not enough, during the last two weeks of July the students will head to Langley School again to do some cake sales during break/lunchtime, as well as holding a Zumba/dance event with the dance teacher.

Phew! They are going to be busy! Good luck ladies!

Many of the students are also getting in contact with local supermarkets in the hope of doing a bag pack in the future to raise money too. Fingers crossed that they get some positive responses to those requests.

Keep up the good work folks!

Fundraising Update

Fundraising is progressing nicely. Well done to everybody who has raised money so far – here’s a summary of what has been achieved so far.

Neha Chauhan has done some cake sales with her Mum and aunt, as well as cutting the grass and washing neighbours cars for cash. This has raised over £150 so far.

Harry Lewis and Rory Hayes joined forces to do a sponsored bike ride, cycling to Oxford (70 miles), raising almost £200 between them. Harry said it was one of the hardest things he’s ever done, but the challenge was well worth it! He has cake sales and car boot sales planned too!

Maggie Brina (pictured below) completed a sky dive, raising sponsorship and completing her College Colours award at the same time. Maggie has raised £295 from this daring venture, and she loved the experience!

 

Nick Wall has also worked with his Mum to do some cake sales at her place of work, and he has sold some items on eBay.

Alex Simpkins has got halfway to her target, raising £200 through her job and doing some dog walking. Amy Garner has also reached the £200 thanks to her job at Iceland.

Lauren Davis did the Knowle Fun Run recently and gathered sponsorship money for this. Her Mum has been helping by selling cakes and chocolates at work and a gig by her Granddad in October will add to her fundraising too. We’ll be letting everyone know more about this gig in the coming weeks and months and asking for help with this event too.

Sammy Lee and Divyani Chauhan have done cake sales and plan a supermarket bag pack, having already raised about £250 so far. Meanwhile, Alex Atkins and Lucy Buckle raised more than £140 from just one bake sale at College – the most ever raised in College from a single bake sale!

Some of the students are working with other organisations to do some fundraising. Alex A and Lucy are working with their old school (Light Hall) to organise a dance event, while Olissha Tagon and Georgia Bodfish are working with their netball team to do a fancy dress netball match and Hannah Patmore hopes to work with a dance school to hold a raffle.

Other future plans include supermarket bag packs, car boot sales, car washing, summer fetes and even redecorating relatives houses for sponsorship! These are all great ideas and now exams are out of the way, students will hopefully have some more time to crack on with fundraising over the summer!

Staff have done some fundraising too – our Easter Bake Off raised more than £290, we sold a set of golf clubs that were donated to us on eBay for £46 and money left over some a staff trip to see War Horse (£20) also went into the pot! The Quiz Night is still to come too and that’s the big one (it raised about £700 last year)!

Learning to speak Wolof!

We're off to The Gambia, so how about we all learn a few words of Wolof before we go?
Of course, everybody speaks English in The Gambia, but how impressed would the locals be if we were to greet them with Na nga def!

Na nga def – Hello (singular)

Na ngeen def – Hello everybody (plural)

Jaam nga fanane – Good morning

Jamm nga yendoo – Good afternoon

Fanaanal jaam - Goodnight

Ba beneen – Goodbye

Su la nexee – Please

Jai-rruh-jef - Thank you

Agsil – You’re welcome (singular)

Agsileen ak jaam - You’re all welcome (plural)

Baal ma - Sorry/Pardon

Wau – Yes

Deh-det – No

Jaam nga am? – Have you peace? (How are you?)

Jaam rek – Peace only (I’m fine)

Yow nag? – And you?

Naka-nga sant? – What’s your first name?

Maa ngi tudd …  – My name is …

Fan nga dahk? – Where do you live?

Fan nga joghe? – Where are you from? (singular)

Fan ngeen joghe? - Where are you all from? (plural)

Deg nga Angale? – Do you speak English?

Angale rekk laa degg – I speak only English

Mahn deggumah Wolof – I don’t speak Wolof

Degguma – I don’t understand

Dama bahggoon …  – I’d like …

Fahn la … ? - Where is … ?

Soreh na? – Is it far?

Cha kanam – Straight ahead

Chammoon - Left

Ndeyjoor – right

Lii naata? – How much is this?

Seer na torob – It’s too much

Wolof is just one of the many languages spoken in The Gambia, but it’s a start!