TWO members of staff from a Gambian infant school have spent a week visiting Brandon Infant School.
Yaya Jagne, headteacher of Apple Tree School, and Aunty Ndeye Silla, the school's co-chairwoman, spent school hours working with children, giving the visitors a chance to develop in a new environment using different methods and resources.
They also visited Durham Cathedral, Beamish Museum and Newcastle Quayside and had lunch at County Hall with Durham County Council chairwoman Edna Hunter.
Teachers from Brandon have twice visited The Gambia and more visits are planned as the links between the two schools grow.
Apple Tree School was founded with only seven pupils, in 1997, by teacher Marion Robson, from County Durham, who died two years later.
Today there are 800 children aged up to 16 at the school, and more than 30 children are sponsored.
Last years, pupils sat their first GCSEs.
A Brandon Infant School spokesman said: "The visit contributed to broaden the children's (and their own) understanding, and appreciation, of different beliefs and cultures."
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