Students at ASPS & Ebenezer Thomas Primary celebrate Culture Day
The event, dubbed ‘From Cottage to Cultural Industry, Promoting a Sustainable economy in the British Virgin Islands’, saw the students participating in a fashion show, dramatic play and cultural dances among other activities.
The students were also treated to a performance by the Elmore Stoutt High School steel pan group as well as performances by parents in a fashion show.
Several cultural items were on display and there was also traditional food and drinks for sale such as mauby, passion fruit and mango juice, tarts and coconut bread.
Principal of Althea Scatliffe Primary, Ms Marietta Flax-Headley said the students participated in activities all week in observance of Culture Week celebrations and were taught elements of VI cultural industries such as the straw and fishing industries, boat building and the Virgin Islands sloop.
Former educator and noted historian, Dr Quincy F.V. Lettsome was also on hand to witness the celebrations.
Meanwhile, over in Sea Cows Bay, students at the Ebenezer Thomas Primary School also participated in similar cultural activities for Culture Day. The event was attended by Third District Representative Hon. Julian Fraser, RA.
Earlier in the week, students at the Alexandrina Maduro Primary School were taught the art of making tarts and peppermint candies.
Students were incorporated in demonstrations by Ms Ira "Lyra" Parsons and Mrs Olive Smith. Ms Parsons led a group of students in the time-honoured tradition of making tarts, a Virgin Islands staple. Students assisted in making tarts from "scratch" with the use of some pre-packaged fillings in the interest of time.
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