Your Questions Answered

On my adventures I have come across some answers to your questions. Let's have a look to see what I found out:

Children in Bristol have asked me these questions:

What kind of clothes do the children wear at school?
The children in Clarencio School don't have to wear a uniform at the moment so they can wear their own clothes. The school does have a uniform; it is a white T-shirt with an orange trim and orange shorts.


What kind of clubs do they have after school?

Clarencio School doesn't have after school clubs. The school day is different. Children either come to school in the morning or in the afternoon.

Some children come to school in the morning from 7am - 11am, then everyone goes home for lunch. From 2pm - 5pm another group of children comes to school to learn.

The school does organise activities in the break times which are very interesting. Sometime a capoeira teacher will come to visit and the whole school will participate. Sometimes there are art activities. Sometimes the children will organise a "passeato". They prepare information about an interesting topic or a problem and they go into the community to tell everybody all about it.

The last passeato at Clarencio School was about a disease called dengue fever. The children prepared information to tell people about how to stay healthy and stop catching this illness.


Would you like to organise a passeato? What would you like to tell people about?

I wonder what other schools are like? Do you think all schools in Brazil will be exactly the same? Why?

My First Day At Clarencio School

Well, my first day at Clarencio school was brilliant!!!! I was a bit nervous at first. It was strange meeting people who didn't speak any English at all. At first I didn't know what to do, so I just gave them a big smile. When I saw them smiling back at me I felt very happy!!! I wonder if they felt nervous meeting me too.

We played some games together and Miss Bevan and Miss Goldsmith gave some lessons in English. By the end of the day I had made so many new friends!

Children come to this school very early; school starts at 7 o'clock in the morning! Many children come to school by bus. I really enjoyed the bus! It was very noisy and crowded, but all the children were laughing and joking on the way to school .


How do you come to school?
What time do you start school?
What time do you get up ?