YOUNGSTERS have celebrated the arrival of letters sent from an African school.
Pupils at Rushey Green Primary School, Culverley Road, Catford, received the letters from children at St Theresa's Roman Catholic School in Serrakunda, The Gambia.
Project leader Dorna McCorkle, whose seven-year-old son Raphique Jackson goes to the school, had arranged for the Rushey Green pupils to send their own letters to The Gambia in March.
Ms McCorkle, a learning mentor from Jutland Road in Catford, had the idea after visiting the school while on holiday in The Gambia last year.
And the children now plan to raise funds to send a donation of computers to the Gambian school.
Ms McCorkle, 50, said: "I was very taken with the way the African school was so welcoming and I thought it would be a really nice idea to link the two schools."
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