Grantley Adams students seeking to ‘win the hearts of residents’

NOT even the rain got in the way of students and staff of the Grantley Adams Memorial School from marching into nearby communities to tell the residents about the positive things happening at the institution, yesterday.

Through the school’s annual district march, led by the Lodge School Cadet Corps band, the students demonstrated to the community that there are positive, uplifting activities taking place at the St. Joseph-based institution, which contributes to the building of a well-rounded student.

Students, armed with banners, represented the school’s Reading Club, 4-H Club, Student Council, Inter-School Christian Fellowship, the choir, Parent-Teacher Association, and athletes.

Principal Dennis Browne told The Barbados Advocate, that the march was the students’ way of saying that their aim is to win the residents’ hearts.

“And we will continue to do whatever is necessary to win the hearts of the residents of the community, because we cannot survive without their support,” he said.

Browne said while the school is always seeking ways to work closely with members of the community, on various projects, Grantley Adams Memorial has established a close bond with the St. Joseph Parish Church, where the church’s leaders visit the school at the beginning and end of every school term to pray God’s blessings on the students and staff.

“But in addition to that, you can come here any weekend or any evening after school and members of the community are either using the school’s playing field, or the hard court, or other parts of the school to conduct classes or some sort or some other activity. So, the school is heavily used by members of the community,” he said. (AH)