Grace Primary School students educate the public on its open day
The Education Week activities continue and today Grace Primary School students put their handiwork on display at an open day. From the infants to the standard six classes, the students shared their knowledge on Belize’s past and present among other topics. A News Five crew visited the school today and brought you a sample of the wide array of displays, offering both information and entertainment. Delahnie Bain reports.
Delahnie Bain, Reporting
The students of Grace Primary School reversed roles and became educators at their Open Day. We started our tour with the standard two students and were treated with useful information on ongoing erosion in the southern village of Monkey River. That was followed by a tour of the solar system, which included a space shuttle and an astronaut.
Alisha Morris, Standard 2 Student
“This is a model of the erosions at the beach.”
Standard 2 Student
“This is a model of Monkey River when the sea claims a house and this is a picture of Monkey River and this is other types of erosion.”
Zoe Tillett, Standard 2 Student
“This is the underwater. This is a fish eating grass from the corals. These are flying fishes flying out of the water. These are fishes trying to find a place to hide.”
Kiana Moody, Standard 2 Student
“The solar system is made of all the planets that orbit the sun. The solar system consists of moons, comets, asteroids and more.”
Adam Ferguson, Standard 2 Student
“The space shuttle program has a history of twenty-six years in action. There have been ups and downs in the exploration of space travel.”
Kelson Tillett, Standard 2 Student
“My name is Neal Alden Armstrong, an astronaut. I am known for the first man on the moon. We landed on the moon July twentieth1969.”
Next, the standard four students took us on a trip down memory lane with a look of slavery days and then brought us back to the present with some information on HIV/AIDS.
Britney Beard, Standard 4 Student
“Slaves originally came from Africa, then they took them to the Caribbean to work in the sugar plantations. After a while they took them to British Honduras which is now called Belize.”
Zaria Rhaburn, Standard Four Student
“HIV is a disease that breaks down your immune system until it grows into the full blown disease which is Aids.”
Britney Neal, Standard 4 Student
“Discrimination is when people say oh—dehn scorn yoh right—dehn seh oh get away from me you have AIDS I don’t want you around me.”
We were impressed by the infant one and two students, who had all the facts about the history of transportation and one of the country’s oldest villages.
Shanelle Rhodes, Infant 2 Student
“Here is a picture of a bike that you ride long time past ago and here is some bikes that you ride right now, modern and present.”
Kaylee Andrews, Infant 2 Student
“The air balloons were in the eighteen hundreds when we didn’t have these planes and now we’re using planes to go places where we need to go.”
Group of Infant 1 Students
“Welcome to infant one, our project is about Crooked Tree. It is the home of a lot of animals and birds like the Jabiru stork, owl, vultures, peccary, toucan and many others.”
And the day rounded up with a cooking lesson and some good old creole dancing and entertainment with the standard six students.
Tanisha Bukley, Standard 6 Student
“The ingredients used to make the flour tortilla is flour, of course, salt baking powder shortening and water. You just knead it into a dough and the motion is forward and backwards.”
[Shots of Dances and Limbo Competition…]
Delahnie Bain for News Five.
