Lane End Primary School

Mr Twigg's Visit to Zambia

I was very fortunate to be able to visit our three partner schools in Zambia: Buntungwa, SOS and Parklands Schools. I travelled with Mrs Finan, headteacher at St Peter's Primary School, and Mrs Inman, headteacher at St Simon's Primary School - our Connecting Classroom partner Stockport Schools.  We had an inspiring week visiting the schools and meeting the staff and children. I saw such determination to learn with comparatively little resources and equipment in the schools. The staff and children were so welcoming to us and, like us, clearly greatly appreciate the link between our schools. There was work and letters from our children up in each of the three partner schools. I wrote an email to the children at Lane End each day explaining what I had been doing that day and this was shared in assembly by Mrs Love and Mr Toyne. The emails are all below after some photos of the visit. The photos are in chronological order and are explained if you read the emails. 

DAY ONE

Dear All,

We are in Zambia! I'll send an email each day to let you know what we've done and share this amazing experience with you.

It was a long journey but all went very smoothly. We (myself, Mrs Inman the headteacher at St Simons and Mrs Finan the headteacher at St Peters) flew from Manchester to Dubai in the largest passenger plane, the Airbus 380, and the from Dubai to Lusaka in Zambia. Ackim from the British Council (who fund the Connecting Classroom link) met us in Lusaka. We were there for a couple of hours. Ackim spent some time watching the children's videos and reading their letters before we take them to our partner schools. He was very impressed with the level of engagement from the children and is going to recommend video messages and questions to other connecting classroom projects.

Lusaka airport was small but an enjoyable place to spend a couple of hours. The air was hot but comfortable and people seemed relaxed. We were able to change some money into Zambian kwacha (£1 = 19 kwacha). There were large windows overlooking the runway and various small planes looked ready to go and explore the skies. We boarded our small plane, which held about 20 people - mostly Zambian men who I would guess had been away with work from their business attire.

The flight to Undola, which is the nearest airport to Kitwe, was the best flight of all. Looking out of the window we could see Zambia stretched out below us; fields, some houses, lakes - it looked a familiar sight from a plane. The sun was setting and very quickly and it was dark by 6:15pm local time. The sun sets at 6pm each day and rises 6am - this happens all the year round - with just an hour change in summer (do you know why?).

Three smiling headteachers met us in Undola! Fred from Buntungwa, Susan from Parklands School (previously called Kitwe Basic) and Agnus from SOS. We have met Fred and Susan before but Agnus is quite a new headteacher - although I think she may have been at SOS when Miss Rainey visited.

The signs and adverts you see around you are all in English so much feels familiar. As Fred drove us from Undola to Kitwe much looked quite similar to home, we were even driving on the left side of the road in Fred's large people carrier - but there were many differences too. It was dark so hard to see from the car but my first impressions were of two Zambias - one of development - cars, shops, banks, hotels and bright signs and one of survival - huts by the side of the road and fires burning to keep warm. I asked Susan what percentage of children go to school and she thought probably about 50%, although all children should there aren't enough schools so the government can't enforce it. Primary school is free (unless you go to a private school) but parents must pay for their child to go to secondary school.

We arrived at our hotel, the Crossroads Lodge, which is comfy and has everything we'll need. We were tired after a long journey (almost a full day and night) but very happy to be here and very much looking forward to the experience. A delicious meal of Zambia beef stew and Nshima (see if you can find out what that is if you don't know!) and then bed. We have to rise early tomorrow morning as we are being taken to church at 7am.

I've attached some photos so you can see the visit so far.

Hope you're all well (work hard and be kind!).

All the best,

Mr Twigg

DAY TWO

Dear All,

A lovely Sunday with much of interest. I got up early to make sure that I was ready to be collected for church. As St Simons and St Peters are both Catholic schools and also because many of the Zambian teachers are Catholic we were visiting a Catholic Church. Can you remember Mutinta from the last visit? Well, it was her church and she seemed very proud to be able to share it with us. Fred, the headteacher at Buntungwa was there as was Peggy, who also visited us at school last time and also Susan who visited in 2009. 

The singing was beautiful - there was a gospel choir and they sang African songs (in Bemba) and also some gospel versions of Traditional hymns. The congregation joined in enthusiastically.

It was St Francis' saint's day which meant that it was a special service - lots of incense and many prayers about renewal as, I learnt, St Francis is famous for helping to renew the church.

During the service we had to stand up to say that we were visiting and at the end we were invited to sign the visitors' book. Everyone was very friendly and welcoming and we were greeted with handshakes by many people. Sometimes it was a traditional Zambian handshake - ask Mr Vallance or Miss Rainey to show you! Lots of the teachers want to know how Mr Vallance and Miss Rainey are - I keep saying 'very well thank you' so I hope they are!  

Susan is hosting the celebrations for Teachers' Day which is tomorrow. All of the teachers in the district will march from the town centre to Parklands School where she is headteacher. We are going to march too and have been given a special shirt to wear. Apparently the teachers will wave banners with their school names on as they march. As Mrs Inman has brought some England flags with her showing the cross of St George we are going to write our school names on and wave that. Susan took us to Parklands School before lunch as she was going to prepare for the celebration. Some of the teachers were there with tools (hammers and nails) and seemed to be fixing things before their big day. 

We shared a traditional Zambian dinner with the teachers before being taken to the mall. It was very similar to a British shopping centre with sports shops, furniture shops, a supermarket and even a Woolworth's (although we don't have those in the UK now). The supermarket had most of the things we would see in our supermarkets and a few things we wouldn't (the most obvious being dried caterpillars! But there was also a snack called Twiggles, costing 82 kwacha, which I liked the look of!). 

Fred told me that the mall was new and that there had been quite a lot of development in Zambia in the last two years, particularly in Lusaka. This had come about on the back of the copper mines as China had needed a lot of copper (for making electronic equipment I assumed). However demand had died down recently and there was worry that some of the copper mining wouldn't be sustainable - added to this was the concern that the copper was running out. This would not be good for Zambia as many of the people's jobs depend on the copper mines. Much of the profit from the mines is taken away from Zambia as they are owned by other countries - this feels desperately unfair as Zambia could benefit so much from the investment.

I've included some photos of prices at the supermarket - can you work out how much the items would cost in pounds and decide if they are cheaper in the UK or Zambia? Remember from my first email that £1 = 19 kwacha (or k 19). Clue: use £1 = k 20 to help estimate. 

I will let you know how the marching went - happy teachers' day (be extra helpful to the teachers today children!). 

Hope you are all well.

With best wishes,

Mr Twigg 

DAY 3

Dear All,

We have been celebrating teachers' day today. Apparently it is World Teachers' Day although I know it isn't celebrated in the UK. This is a shame as it was a day for teachers to be recognised and be proud of the important job that they do. Maybe we can start to recognise it in the Connecting Classrooms schools somehow? The theme of this year's World Teachers' Day is 'Empowering teachers building sustainable societies'. This means that teachers educate the children who are the future of the country. It is these children who will build a society that works well - if they are taught well by teachers who feel able to do their job.

We met early to march and were taken by Fred to Kitwe town centre. It was already busy with teachers getting ready to march. They were gathered in school groups and all had banners with their school name on. We had our flag on which I'd written the Stockport and Kitwe school names. The town centre began to get busier as more teachers arrived. Buses also brought a marching band and school children from a majorette group. There were many people taking photos of the teachers to sell to them (we also had lots of photos taken of us) and people were selling drinks and bananas.

The march started after the district commissioner had made a speech. It was an amazing spectacle with hundreds of teachers marching together. They sang songs about their pride in being teachers. As we passed cars they sang in Bemba, 'We taught you and now you can even drive a car.' The March was heading to Parklands school. When we arrived it was clear how hard Susan and the teachers had been working to prepare the school. The school field was transformed with marquees, seats and a stage for the speeches.

We sat down and an MC came out with a microphone to introduce the celebrations. He spoke in Bemba and everyone found him very funny - Doreen told me what he was saying but I don't think the jokes translated very well!

Children came out to sing and dance and all performed brilliantly. The teachers really appreciated their efforts. Then there were speeches from both the teaching unions and the local government officials. Although they clearly didn't agree about all of the issues in the schools they were very respectful to each other and it was encouraging to see them both in the same stage.

There are many reforms in the education sector in Zambia. These include the upgrading of teachers' qualifications, increased use of technology, changes to national examinations and changes to working hours in school. The unions wanted smaller class sizes and more space for teachers to work in school or no expectation that they stay in school for a number of hours when they have finished their teaching hours as there is nowhere for teachers to work (the classrooms are often being used by another group of children as they can't all be taught at once and many schools don't have staffrooms). The local government wanted the teachers to work hard, recognising that they often needed to go beyond the call of duty, and take pride in their work. They also wanted them to get more qualifications. The union didn't disagree with these things. We were pointed out and stood up to wave. Making links like we have done with our partner schools in Stockport and Kitwe was recommended to all of the schools.

After these speeches each school gave some of their teachers (4 or 5) a prize either for 'working hard', 'most improved' or 'long service'. The MC made lots of funny jokes as the teachers came out. Prizes included fridges, TVs, fans and money.

The atmosphere was fantastic and there was a real buzz as teachers made their way from the celebrations. Each school was now going to celebrate at a different venue. We were going to join Buntungwa primary school for a BBQ at the tennis club.

The journey took us past the market which was bustling with people and stalls and very different from the shopping mall at the other end of town. Fred said that at one point there was a suggestion that the market should be knocked down to make room for another shopping mall. Have a look at the photos of the market and think about whether this would be a good idea or not.

As I'm writing this this evening I have the local news on the TV. A report about the teachers' day celebrations and the changes in education has just come on and I've just seen Mrs Finan (headteacher at St Peters) walk past in a film showing today's march!

Tomorrow we are visiting Buntungwa Primary school and staying for both the morning (7 - 12) and afternoon school (12 - 5). 

I hope you all had a good Monday and that all went well for the choir at Cheadle Hulme Methodist Church. Have a good day today.

Best wishes

Mr Twigg

DAY 4

Dear All

My first proper visit to a Zambian school. The great work that the teachers are doing with limited resources and the happiness and hard work of the children was both humbling and inspiring.

We were greeted at Buntungwa School by about 900 children (from ages 6 to 13) and all of the teachers in the yard outside where they hold assembly. We were welcomed by all of the children and spoke to them all about our schools and gave them our gifts. Many of the children love football and so were pleased with the Manchester United bag and ball and the signed Manchester City shirt which Mrs Sardo had kindly managed to get for us (her husband is the chef for Manchester City!). They promised to reply to our letters and I also managed to get some video answers to our video questions! 

The school is very large but quite basic in layout with rows of classrooms with a covered walkway between them. The classrooms are quite bare apart from the desks and stools the teacher's desk and a blackboard. The children have exercise books, pens and pencils, school bags and there are small sets of texts books and teachers use photocopied pages from these as well as their own handwritten photocopied sheets. Posters displaying the alphabet, maps, sounds, flags etc have been made and put up in some of the classrooms - mostly for the younger children. There are also at least three displays of our connecting classrooms link with lots of photos of all of the schools. Despite the relative lack of resources or decoration the rooms are full of learning and we saw some very interesting lessons. The Year 9s were learning about their democracy, the Year 8s were doing a science lesson about density, the Year 4s had made some amazing toys by recycling materials, some classes were learning Bemba, others were learning English. All of the children use Bemba as their main school language until Year 3 now although they learn English too. After this they switch to English as the main language for teaching. I saw the Year 2s doing number patterns and the Year 3s doing a reading comprehension - many of the things you learn in school. Lessons aren't linked together by themes but taught as discrete subjects. The children were very respectful and worked hard. 

Play times were fun and I saw chasing games and songs with dances. Many of the children spent time talking to each other too. I asked for Jack and they did know what an Xbox was although wouldn't have one in their home - however they would sometimes go to place which had games consoles you could pay to go on (a bit like an arcade I suppose) to play computer games. I think children from some of the other schools in Kitwe may have had more technology in their home but Buntungwa is in a poorer area. The school has an ICT suite of 20 computers although only 7 are working (for a school of 1500 children). This is a major problem as there is an ICT practical exam for the Year 9 children this year - the school is thinking of hiring some computers for the exam. I also found out that some classes have 68 children in them - however others have much less, one class this afternoon had 26. This is because there is a morning school and an afternoon school and the morning school is much more popular.

The children all walk to school and after the first term of Year 1 they walk to and from school on their own. Most live close by in small houses in the roads near the schools. I learnt that in Kitwe they have townships and compounds. Townships are serviced by water and electricity and compounds generally aren't. These have usually started by people building their own houses on unused land. Sometimes the government will 'upgrade' these (put in electricity and water facilities) and at other times they may ask everyone to move to a different location where they would prefer the houses to be and where they would help support with new houses. However not everyone wants to leave and these compounds remain and come into disrepair - they become shantytowns which are a hotchpotch of small houses and shacks which have been put up. Of course the children who live there need education too. In the shantytown  town closest to Buntungwa there is a 'community school'. There is one teacher who teaches all of the children in a small building with no playground. This school lacked all facilities bar a room and blackboard and yet the teacher still had all of the children sat down and was teaching grammar - a lesson on plurals. Buntungwa tries to help support the school with any resources (paper, pencils and some books) that they can and by providing a teacher to visit and advise occasionally. 

After lessons we planted some trees with the Year 6 class - each school planted one tree so we have a Lane End tree at Buntungwa School which the children will look after for us. It's a eucalyptus tree - can you find out if that type of tree would grow in our garden too? 

Each day in Kitwe the electricity goes off for 10 hours to help conserve it. This is often in the evening. It made it a bit tricky this evening as we were at one of the teacher's houses for dinner. However she managed brilliantly and cooked a delicious meal using BBQs and had torches around the house. The teachers are very enterprising and resourceful and just get on with things. I found out that Zambia and many other nearby African countries use hydroelectric power for their electricity. A dam is built and the water powers turbines to generate the electricity. There had been a crack in Zambia's main dam wall and it had to be drained so the wall could be fixed. As it is the hottest season there is no rain to fill the dam again so electricity has to be spared. The rains should come in a couple of weeks and there is to be a national day of prayer for rain.

It has been a great day full of lessons about resilience and a fuller understanding of how lucky we are with what we have in our schools. But it's not about having the most - attitude is so important. Have a look at the photos and you'll see children enjoying school and their learning.

I hope you had a great day yesterday too and have another one today.

Best wishes,

Mr Twigg

DAY 4

Dear All

Glad all is going well - it really is quite inspiring here. Seeing how the teachers are getting on with so little and how well the children are responding.

It's a shame that the photos aren't all getting through - the wifi is not reliable and is only on occasionally - when it is it isn't fast. The electricity goes off 10 hours a day and sometimes the water is off too. Despite that it's very comfy!

I'll try and attach some photos to this email. Let me know if it works.

We visited two schools today - SOS and a government school for one of the shanty towns. The head and staff there were amazing - you could do a growth mindset case study on them!

SOS was lovely - very caring and looking after some vulnerable children as well as having private places. They had more resources by far. They also had a village for the vulnerable children who lived in houses with a mother. In addition there was a medical clinic attached and we were also able to speak to the head doctor and a social worker.

The children at SOS performed songs and dances for us and we spent most time with the younger children in nursery, reception and year 1. We also planted three more eucalyptus trees, one for each school. We'll have to do tree planting next time we have a visit.

Have a good day.

All the best

Mr Twigg

PS. I have attached some photos from Monday and Tuesday - I hope they have worked this time. Mrs Love said the others didn't come through. I have already tried to send Mrs Love some photos from today and can share lots of photos in assembly when I return!

REPLY FROM YEAR 6

Dear Mr Twigg

Class 6 here. We are glad you are having an enjoyable and informative week in Zambia. We have found your daily emails interesting and have learnt a lot more about schools over there. Your photos finally got through, though some of them are sideways! We hope the children enjoyed reading our letters (Jack) and watching the videos of our questions (Jason).

You missed this morning's Harvest assembly with Rev. Peacock; we got an amazing amount of tins of food to send to Wellspring. Anthony would like to know if the children have their own pencil cases! Joseph asks if the Zambians celebrate harvest in any way?

Enjoy the rest of your week.

Class 6

DAY 6

Dear Year 6 and all the children at Lane End, 

Thank you very much for your email - it's great to hear from you.

I am having a week full of new experiences and it has been interesting, inspiring and good fun too. I visited two schools today - Parklands, our partner school, and another school close by which also had a special unit for children with special educational needs. 

I'm glad that my emails are getting through and that you now have some photos too. The children have definitely enjoyed your letters and I know they will treasure them - Parklands has a display of the connecting classroom work we have done so far and there were a lot of photos of Lane End on there. I'll try and attach a photo to show you. A group of children showed me round the school today - I showed them the video of Daisy and Jason's tour and they certainly enjoyed watching it. I also recorded them showing me around their school so we can make that into a film too (please would you be able to do that again Jason?). Added to this I have many videos of the children answering your questions - they're also very interested in our country. 

To answer Anthony's question - I haven't seen many pencil cases but all children have pencils and pens which they bring from home and keep in their bag. In some of the schools they also have a lunch box in their bag. There is a shop (tuck shop) at Parklands where they can buy lunch. In Buntungwa and SOS the children brought a packed lunch - although sadly not all of the children's families were able to afford one each day. The children who live in the SOS village went home to have a very healthy dinner - I saw meat, vegetables and nshima which the eldest child in each house served up for the younger ones. 

Joseph's question about harvest is a good one. I'm very pleased that we had such a good response to our harvest for the Wellspring - thank you all. I'm not sure whether they have a harvest assembly or collection in Zambian schools - I would think that a collection certainly wouldn't be possible in the schools in the poorer areas such as Buntungwa as many families don't have enough food themselves. The seasons are different here so if there was a harvest I would think it would be at a different time of year - I'll try and find out more tomorrow.

I watched two fascinating lessons today - one about human rights and one about different types of conflict (individual, institutional, local, national and international). They don't have interactive whiteboards in the schools I have visited although Parklands does have two projectors. However, the teacher had drawn pictures on large sheets of paper to help explain some of the human rights a child has - I hope you can see this on the photo, if not what do you think these rights are? Year 6, you'll be doing some work on this later this year and it was interesting and very encouraging that it was also being covered in Zambia so far away from our school. The older children (grade 8) were discussing conflict with great knowledge and giving thoughtful responses and explanations and asking sensible and well considered questions.

At the other school (which was called Rokana) I saw their afternoon 'club sessions'. They had a large reading club - a mobile library (The Book Bus) came to school each week to share books and the children all read together under the shade of a tree outside. They also had a singing club and gave us some very enthusiastic and tuneful renditions of songs and hymns. I videoed this and will show you when I get back as the children were such good singers. 

After school today two of the teachers took us to a football match - Nkana FC (the local Kitwe team) vs a team from Lusaka (the capital of Zambia) both teams are in the top division in Zambia. Nkana are sponsored by Mopani which is the local mining firm. You can see the mines from the stadium. Many of the miners come and watch the game and because their team were losing they were shouting their dissatisfaction in Bemba - "We have spent our kwetcha on a season ticket, our wages are being reduced and now you're losing the game." They should have won really as they seemed the better team (and are also much higher in the league) but they lost 1-0 after having a goal disallowed for offside. I enjoyed the game and it was  interesting to see that the team's badge had the Manchester United Red Devil on it. The children love the Manchester football teams and have cheered when I have given them the football shirt and ball. 

One more day in the schools tomorrow and then the long flight home on Saturday morning which doesn't get into Manchester until Sunday evening. 

Tomorrow children from the three schools are coming together to have a debate - 'should corporal punishment be allowed in Zambia'. It is, thankfully, banned in Zambia now and has been for some years so it will be interesting to see if there are different points. I'm not convinced it is necessary to debate it so we'll see what happens. I think that one group may have been asked to argue for and one against so that all the points aren't from the same side. I certainly don't think that it should be allowed and all of the children I have seen have been behaving very well and the teachers have also been very caring. 

One thing that we discussed with some of the teachers today is the work we have done on growth mindset in terms of allowing children to make a mistake; instead of just saying that they've got it wrong helping them to improve and realise that they are learning from their mistakes. Many of the teachers demonstrate this but some teachers don't encourage the children to keep going if they get it wrong. We know how important effort and having a go at something challenging is - you shouldn't be afraid to have a go. The teachers do want to learn and were very interested so clearly have a growth mindset themselves. We have learnt so much from them as I have said in my previous emails, particularly their ability to keep learning as the focus without any of the luxuries we are used too.  Resources do make a difference though and simply by introducing some pictures in the human rights lesson and cards with the rights on for some of the children to hold I saw another level of engagement from some of the children.

It's been a fascinating and thought-provoking week as I hope you can tell from my emails. If I've gone on a bit it's because it's been helping me download all of my thoughts too! I look forward to sharing more of my pictures and stories with you when I get back.

Enjoy Friday and as long as my flight all goes well I'll see you on Monday for assembly.

All the best

Mr Twigg

DAY 7

Another amazing day. We started with tree planting at Parklands Schools. We were planting fruit trees - a lemon tree for St Simon's, an orange tree for St Peter's and a tangerine tree for Lane End. As I planted the tree with the help from the children I told them the story of Handa's Surprise (many of you know the book) which is set in Africa and which ends with Handa presented her friend Akeyo with a basketful of tangerines - Akeyo says, "Tangerines, my favourite fruit!"

The Year 9 children have a practical ICT exam in three weeks time. This is part of the new curriculum which the government brought in in 2013. Unfortunately many schools still don't have the money to buy computers and with the exam deadline looming schools are having to find ways to share computers. Parklands does have a computer suite (although it has state funding it is topped up by private fees from the parents too - it also received British Council funding for a computer hub) and another school had brought its Year 9 children to use the suite and be taught by the ICT teacher at Parklands. The children had never had the chance to use a computer. They had learnt about it all in theory and could say what CPU stood for (central processing unit) and what applications they needed to use (word, excel and powerpoint) but had never used them. The teacher started by explaining about how to use the mouse - but this took a long time. Then she explained about the space bar. She started by using the traditional teaching methods - in Zambia a lot of the teaching is done by repetition, e.g.

Teacher:  We are learning about Human rights. What are we learning about?

Children: Human Rights.

Teacher: Humans Rights are the freedoms given to citizens by the society. What are Human Rights?

Children: The freedoms given to citizens by the society. 

I think part of the rationale for this is that the children are learning two languages - Bemba and English. This style of teaching reinforces the English language and vocabulary. It also enables all the children in a large class to take part (they don't have individual whiteboards as we do).  One draw back is that it slows the pace of the lesson. This was particularly noticeable at the beginning of the ICT lesson especially as the children only had a few lessons before their practical exam. The standard pedagogy wasn't quick enough and the children needed to get using the computer. I asked if I could help - and with myself, the class teacher and Mrs Inman working together and moving at a quick pace with the emphasis on the children using the computer, they achieved a great amount. The children needed to know how the keyboard worked - the basics such as how to do capitals, full stops, spaces and what enter did. They also needed to know how to save their work. We did all of this in about 25 minutes as the children were so keen to learn. I asked them to write introducing themselves to the children in England. 

Ten children from Buntungwa and ten children from SOS were also visiting. This was because of the debate which had been organised. We sat in the hall in Parklands. It was so well organised and professionally handled. There were protocols which all of the children followed - thanking the chairperson, judges and time keeper. They would say, "To the chairperson I salute you, to the judges I bow and to the timekeeper I say keep the time well because time wasted is never recovered." Then the children would begin their points. They did this quickly and with great confidence and presence. They also had texts or newspapers to back up their points. The argument would pass from one side to the other - person by person. The children in the audience were able to show appreciation of a point well made by shaking their hands. Fred emphasised that corporal punishment had been banned in 2003 and wouldn't come back. At the end it was decided that this wasn't a debate to be judged but a lesson in debating.

It was time to say our goodbyes to the children - it had been a pleasure to spend time with them in their schools. We had a trip to the market with its vivid colours, hustle and bustle and tough negotiations. Then a final meal and goodbye to the teachers who had welcomed us with such warmth.

DAY 7 and 8

 The trip home started at 10am on Saturday and we weren't back in Manchester Airport until 8pm on Sunday. We flew from Ndola and saw one of the ex-village children from SOS school working in the airport gift shop there. Anne, his former teacher who was with us, was very proud as you'll see on the photo. We had a long wait in Lusaka and Ackim from the British Council came to meet us again. He took us round Lusaka in his car. Lusaka, being the capital, had a lot more wealth than Kitwe. The president lives there and we saw embassies and the parliamentary buildings. The roads were much wider and more developed and yet there was still some of the poverty and striving we had seen in many parts of Kitwe - particularly in Lusaka's town centre and the area around the markets. From Lusaka we were travelling to Dubai airport - a huge contrast with its opulence, cleanliness and international travellers. Back after that to the familiarity of Manchester then home again to family.

There is more information about our British Council Connecting Classroom link and our work so far here.

Below are some photos of prices at the supermarket in Zambian kwacha- can you work out how much the items would cost in pounds and decide if they are cheaper in the UK or Zambia?

£1 = 19 kwacha (or k 19). Clue: use £1 = k 20 to help estimate.