Extra Curriculum Classes

Jofi School organises song and dance classes every Thursday for Nursery Years 2 and 3, as well as Grades 1, 2 , 4 and 5. The pupils are now wonderful singers and love to entertain! (Grade 3 are taking their NATs exam this year, so they have extra studies instead)

Home Economics or Food Science classes for Grade 6 have grown from just five pupils last year to 19 this year. They’ve loved making Cornish pasties, pizza, cakes, they even made all the cakes for their Christmas party!

So far this year, the children have also learned about the importance of nutrition and the relationship between food and health, as well as how to preserve food.

Preserving food is so important in The Gambia where electricity supply is so poor and so much food goes to waste. The children learned to salt dry fish, they covered the fish in salt for three days, drained off the water and hung them to dry. Six weeks later, they were taken down and soaked overnight. The next day, the children were shown how to cook the fish so they could see that it works, and how very tasty it is.

Every child that had a local kitchen took a piece home and hung it over the cooking area. They brought it back two weeks later, it was soaked overnight and the next day it was made into Benachin for lunch. The children also made mango jam, mango and apple chutney, and pickled vegetables.