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Lions Club pampers more than 100 teachers in VG [Photo-slide Included]

More than a hundred teachers were recognised by the Valley-Sound Lions Club as part of Teachers Week. Photo: VINO
THE VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI- With the saying “better late than never” being most appropriate in more than one way, the Valley-Sound Lions Club of Virgin Gorda recently pampered more than a hundred teachers from both the private and public schools on the sister island as part of World Teachers Week, which was observed earlier this month.

The school teachers were truly treated to a classy evening of hand massages, dinner and an award ceremony in an exquisite Moroccan setting that was created by Laura Thompson and staff of Premium Designs II, which has been growing in popularity for its creativity.

Among the awards given out were for the youngest, oldest and longest serving teachers. All the teachers received tokens of appreciation. Following the Dinner and Award Ceremony, the delighted teachers then engaged themselves in karaoke singing and plenty laughter!

According to 1st Vice-President of the Valley-Sound Lions Club, Coralie George, some 112 teachers were catered for this year and noted that the recent activity, which was held at the Catholic Community Centre, saw the largest turnout of teachers since the annual event started six years ago.

Ms. George also said the Valley-Sound Lions Club had raised all the funds to pull off their annual teacher’s appreciation exercise.

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Meanwhile, on October 5, 2011 the administration of the largest elementary school in the Territory, the Althea Scatliffe Primary School, celebrated the occasion of World Teachers Day by treating its huge staff to a morning of prayers, song, gifts and breakfast.

It was an occasion where the teachers were able to sit with each other in a light atmosphere and showered with words of appreciation and encouragement before returning to their classrooms of anxious students reinvigorated to do what they do best.

“This is World Teacher’s Week and today is World Teachers’s Day so we decided to do something extra special for the staff and the administration, along with Mr. Bevis Sylvester of Delta, helped to sponsor our prayer breakfast this morning. We had persons from the community come in to pray with our teachers and for our teachers and we also gave them little gifts just to show our appreciation for their efforts and all that they put in for our children,” Principal of the school Mariata Flax-Headley had told Virgin Islands News Online.

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