Malawi Day

We are very fortunate at Bressingham School, to be part of the Norwich-Dedza Partnership, linking an area of Malawi, in Africa, with Norfolk. Today we celebrated this partnership with a day finding out about Malawi. This helps us to achieve two of our '100 Memorable Events': experiencing different cultures and taking part in a group fundraising challenge.

First we painted some pictures of The Dedza area, in the style of an artist named Alex Katz...

Alex Katz paintings:

Our paintings of Malawi in the style of Alex Katz:

Later we dressed in Malawian clothes and made Nsima, a maize-flour porridge that we ate with vegetable relish. 

Then it was time to share what we had learnt with friends, parents, carers and grandparents in a whole school assembly.

Finally, some of us helped to sell rice from Malawi; if we can sell 90 kg of rice it will raise enough money to enable a child in Malawi to go to High School, who would not otherwise be able to afford to do so.