RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

A week be­fore the start of end-of-term ex­am­i­na­tions, pupils of San Fer­nan­do TML Pri­ma­ry School were treat­ed to an af­ter­noon of fun ac­tiv­i­ties on Fri­day in the com­mem­o­ra­tion of Uni­ver­sal Chil­dren’s Day.

The El So­cor­ro Cen­tre for Wildlife Con­ser­va­tion (ECWC) set up a booth on the com­pound and chil­dren got the op­por­tu­ni­ty to in­ter­act with the fa­mous yel­low Burmese Python and var­i­ous species of birds and an­i­mals.

The chil­dren got free fresh fruit juice, home made ice cream, sno-cones, pop­corn, cot­ton can­dy, free give-aways from Massy Hold­ing and par­ty bags filled with snacks. An open chess tour­na­ment was held for all stu­dents to­geth­er with face paint­ing and a pho­to booth.

Boun­cy cas­tles were set up in the mul­ti-pur­pose court and par­ents as­sist­ed teach­ers while the chil­dren played a range of tra­di­tion­al games in­clud­ing hu­la hoops and bal­loon pops. A foot­ball match was al­so held in the school’s play­ground.

School prin­ci­pal Wahi­da Mo­hammed-Nar­ine ad­dressed the au­di­ence ex­press­ing thanks to the PTA of San Fer­nan­do TML, school staff , the Scouts, the Chess Club, the Ara­bic Class and all par­ents who part­nered to host the event.

Mo­hammed-Nar­ine said the Chil­dren’s Day event is the start of a se­ries of cel­e­bra­tions in com­mem­o­ra­tion of the school’s 70 an­niver­sary, the Plat­inum Ju­bilee which will be on 19th Jan­u­ary, 2023.

“Fo­cus is on the ide­al child, to en­sure all chil­dren are hap­py, healthy, aca­d­e­m­i­cal­ly bal­anced and grow­ing well,” she ex­plained.

She added: “The school grasped at this op­por­tu­ni­ty for stu­dents and par­ents to re­turn to nor­mal ac­tiv­i­ties, hav­ing been de­prived of so­cial in­ter­ac­tion and phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ty for the past two years, due to the COVID-19 re­stric­tions.”

The Pub­lic Re­la­tions Of­fi­cer of the school’s PTA, Ginelle Baldeo al­so thanked all stake­hold­ers.

“Our par­ents and spon­sors gen­er­ous­ly do­nat­ed to­wards the event. Al­so, our par­ent vol­un­teers would have vol­un­teered their time, ve­hi­cles and them­selves to as­sist in the event,” Baldeo said.

Par­ents of the Stan­dard Five class­es al­so ex­pressed grat­i­tude to the school for this ini­tia­tive say­ing it was a wel­comed break for the SEA stu­dents.