Foday Jallow and Mariama Barry, students of Armitage Senior Secondary School, accompanied by Sulayman Jammeh, a teacher in the school, recently returned home after a three-week visit to the North Bromsgrove High School in the UK.

In an interview the Daily Observer, Sulayman Jammeh, the head of the delegation said the trip was based on a yearly exchange visit programme that Armitage SSS has with North Bromsgrove High School.

He added that it is meant to experience and improve the different cultures, and academic background of the two schools, among others. According to him, they learnt a lot from their counterparts and participated in many competitions such as the wheelchair competition in which the Armitage students took second position.

Jammeh disclosed that since the start of this old link in 1988, 44 outstanding students have so far been given the opportunity to visit the UK. "The impact that this relations have made in our school cannot be over-emphasised," he said. "Since the inception of the link, we were able to have our school library built and furnished by these wonderful people and most remarkably the advanced learning materials we received from them," he added.

He finally thanked the principal of the school, David Haffner for bestowing trust and confidence on him and the students he travelled with to the UK.