Pirang Basic Cycle School

Principal: Mr Manding Ceesay
1030 children age 7 to 16

Mr Manding Ceesay
Pirang Basic Cycle School
Regional 2 Western Division
P. O. Box 5224
The Gambia
West Africa
Tel: 00220 487 151

DIRE NEEDS OF OUR SCHOOL

STATIONERY:
Folders, pencils, pens, chalks, felt-pens, erasers, sharpeners, crayons, colouring pencils, colour powder, art brushes, A4 paper, file covers, cello tape (all sizes) glue, envelopes (assorted) mathematics set/set boxes, dictionaries, library books, blackboard paints, sugar paper, tracing paper, quire books, quire books, exercise books, markers.

FURNITURE:
Stand pump/bore hole, wheel barrows, microscope, Scholarship for orphans and other needy students, Tables and chairs are urgently needed for the following within the school: Infants, b) intermediate, c) senior students, d) staff room, e) library, f) Staff quarters, g) assembly hall. Cupboard for staff quarter, cupboards for classrooms and library and assembly hall

EQUIPMENT:
Radio, tape recorder, television, video, computer, overhead projectors, solar Electrification, refrigerator, typewriter, stand fans, ceiling fans, inverters, batteries, loud speakers, generators, duplicating machines, photo copiers, wall clock, scales, globes, world maps. Transport: Pick-up, vans etc.,

INFRASTRUCTURE:
Fencing the following areas of the school with cement walls: School exterior, b) school garden, c) school orchard. Construction of a technical block for the following: Wood work; metal work, home science, technical drawing, science laboratory and arts/crafts.

Rehabilitation of a two-classroom block Construction of an assembly hall building Construction of a library/staff room School market development Construction of a school mosque

THE LIBRARY & RESOURCE CENTRE:
Furniture:
Tables, chairs, cupboards, shelves, benches, buckets, cups, spoons, kettles, paints (oil). Teaching Aids: Post – cards, supplementary readers, test books of various subjects, especially African writers series.

Radio, cassettes, cassette tape recorder, camera and films and video A ledger book for borrows register. Pens, pencils, marker, crayons, cardboards, water colours, drawing paper, canvas, chalk, cello tape, white lime and paint for renovation of the library.

Drawing pins, dictionaries from grade 5-9

THE WOOD WORK CENTRE
Rib saw, tenor saw, cross cut saw, and adzes blade. Chisels, various sizes.
Planes – small, medium and large. Tape measurers 2m, 3m or 5m in length.

Screw drivers, small, medium and large. Files rough and smooth. Hammers, small medium and large Cramps – ‘G’ shaped and ‘L’ shaped (small/big) Vices – small, medium and big. Square measure – medium/large Angle measure apparatus. Grinding stone (rough / smooth). Chain saw for timber. Wheelbarrow. Chains for hanging Cutlasses Carpenters glue. Punch (iron). Short chisel for cutting plates Glasscutter. Carpenters scissors. Rib bats

THE SCHOOL FARMS AND GARDEN
Tools that are available are as follows:
5 garden forks
1 spade
4 watering cans
2 rakes

Tools and equipment that are needed:
1. Garden forks
2. Spades
3. Rakes.
4. Hand tools – forks, spades, etc.
5. Barbed wire
6. Chicken wire
7. Nails 2” and 3”.
8. Solid gate for orchard/garden
9. Iron plates and rods for labels
10. Indelible marker for labels.
11. Spraying machine.
12. Pesticides.
13. Cutlasses, axes, hoes
14. Experiment boxes.
15. Seed varieties.
16. Nets and gloves.
17. Traps for rodents.
18. 50m/100m tape lines.
19. A bicycle for errands
20. Books on vegetable gardening

SCIENCE LABORATORY
To be able to carry out simple experiments
TEACHING AIDS:
1. Vanguards.
2. Flash Cards.
3. Charts

N.B. These need to be related to science.
REFERENCE MATERIALS

Text Books on the following subjects:
1. Biology
2. Chemistry
3. Physics
4. General/Science
5. Physical Science


LABORATORY EQUIPMENT
1. Microscope
2. Hand lens
3. Test tube
4. Pendulum
5. Balance
6. Funnels
7. Bunsen Burners and Tripod
8. Beakers
9 Litmus paper (blue & red).
10. Thermometer (for measuring body temperature).
11. Bell jar
12. Voltmeter
13. Chemicals Substances e.g. copper sulphate crystals, Co2 & H2


METAL WORK NEEDS
WORKSHOP
Bench tables 25 solid or hard wooden tables with two vice cramps on adjacent sides.
MEASURING TOOLS
Steel ruler
Try – square
CUTTING TOOLS
Hacksaw
Files, (Rash, smooth, rough, round, flat, triangle and comical.


MARKING TOOLS
Scribes
Outside callipers
Inside callipers
Jennies callipers
Dividers
Compass divider
Punches
HOLDING TOOLS
Vice cramps
G – cramps
Sash – cramps
SPORTS AND P.E. NEEDS
FOOTBALL LOGISTICS
Original balls and pump
Football, jersey/vest
T Shirt
P- Shorts and shocks
Goal net
Football shoes


VOLLEY BALL
Volleyball net
Volleyballs
Volleyball jersey

BASKETBALL
Basket pitch
Basketballs
TENNIS
Table tennis materials
Table
Net
Bats and balls
Lawn tennis materials
Net
Bats and balls
Rounders Game
Rounders ball
Bats

OTHER MATERIALS
50 metres tapeline
Whistle
Relay batons
Shot-put ball
Four flags (red, yellow and green and blue 1m2 each)
High jump poles
MATHS DEPARTMENT NEEDS

EQUIPMENT
Blackboard ruler (1 metre)
Blackboard compass
Blackboard protractor
Blackboard set squares (45°, 30°, and 60° types)


LIST OF SUPPLIMENTARY TEXT
New general mathematics revision books by the following authors:
J B Channon.
A McLeish Smith
H C Head
Book 1, 2 and 3
Mathematics for secondary school courses.
Past mathematics exam papers.

TEACHING AIDS
Vanguards for drawing charts and graphs.
Permanent markers (1 packet).
Dice and playing cards (for probability).
Pairs of scissors.

ARTS AND CRAFT NEEDED
DRAWING AND PAINTING MATERIALS
Drawing papers – A4 size papers, vanguards, hard papers for drawing and 2B pencils.
Paints – (Oil paint, water colour, crayons, pastels and colour pencils of different variety), fixative (chemical) and charcoal for drawing.
Drawing boards and Easels.
Craft (Pottery, basketry, and leather work).
Throwing wheel, simple machine for moulding clay.
Carving tools – spatulas, wires, knives etc.

TYE DYE AND BATIK
Chemicals – packs of hydro sulphuric, caustic soda and dyes of various colours.
Fabric- Bundles of plain cloths.
Other significant materials – Containers, gloves and masks
Note: With the availability of the above materials there is also a need for an Art room (studio) where students would comfortably do their works and display their finished works


FOOD AND NUTRITION
COOKING EQUIPMENT
1.Cookers
2. Gas tower
3. Refrigerator
4. Cupboards/drawers.
5. Cutlery.
6. Bowls.
7. Text books, Grade 7 to 9.

CLOTHING & TEXTILES
1. Sewing machine.
2. Electric iron and ironing board.
3. Sewing materials (cloths).
4. Sewing equipments.
5. Pins, needles, scissors, thimble, tape measures.
6. Full length mirrors.
7.Cutting out table.
8.Patterns.
9.Home economics department textbooks grade 7 to 9.

HOME MANAGEMENT
1. Chairs
2. Bucket.
3. Overall.
4. Cleaning materials.
5. Vanguards.
6. Markers.
7. Text books grade 7 to 9

LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS
ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
1. The Gambia English – Pupils books 1-9.
2. Elementary dictionaries (junior students).
3. Intermediate dictionaries (senior students).
4. Advance learners’ dictionaries (teachers).
5. Students Companions.
6. Brighter Grammar books 1-3.
7. Comprehensive English for J.S.S. (by I.O. Okoro).
8. Practice Tests for English Language by (Mamy Jammeh Khan.).
9. Thing Fall Apart –Literature test.
10. Great Expectation –Literature test.
11. Trans Africa (books 1-3 pupils handbooks.
12. Trans Africa (books 1-3 pupils workbooks.
13 Islamic Text books Grade 1-9.(Trs’ sets).