CHILDREN at Broad Chalke got into the African rhythm when two undergraduates from Cape Town visited their school.

Monde Mdingi and Nokwanda Bovana, whose studies are being supported by the Salisbury-based Fezeka Scholarship Fund, organised singing and drumming workshops for the pupils last Monday.

Then on Tuesday they helped two classes prepare a concert for parents. The Ladies’ Christian Fellowship from the village also joined in the fun.

Headteacher Margaret Pearson said: “The students were so good with the children. Monde in particular was brilliant with the little ones.”

Monde, who hopes to become a music teacher, and Nokwanda, who is studying opera, first came to south Wiltshire two years ago with the award-winning Fezeka High School Choir from the township of Gugulethu to take part in the International Arts Festival with Salisbury Community Choir.

The choir spent a day at the school then, and had such a good time that the two students, who are visiting Salisbury for a fortnight, specially asked to go back there.

On Saturday they helped the Scholarship Fund raise money by taking part in a Come & Sing workshop at St Elizabeth Hall, followed by a concert at St Thomas’s Church, Salisbury.