CGS celebrates successful Literacy Week

THE CURTAINScame down on the week of activities to mark ‘Literacy week’ at the Canouan Government School. The activities ran from May 30th to June 2nd 2023, under the theme ‘Transforming the mind, one book at a time’.

The objectives of the week of activities were: to raise awareness about the value of reading and writing; to instill a love of reading in students towards having them make it a habit; to assist children in developing their reading abilities, critical thinking skills, and other skills such as writing, vocabulary, and spelling, by making reading engaging and enjoyable.

The activities commenced with a book character/career day, where students dressed up depicting their favourite book characters and added to the portrayal of their characters by reading part of their book to the class.

Also on that day, a number of pupils went out into the community to read to the elderly and later that evening there was a movie night for both parents and students.

Some other activities included a reading relay, literacy classroom discussions, Spelling Bee competition, as well as a literacy fair and writing day.

The activities culminated with the most anticipated events which included ‘Anything but a book bag’ which involved students using their creativity to construct/design book bags using recycled materials from their environment.

Later that day, four studentsTione Small, Lorelei George, Jayden Davis and Meike Deroche - took part in a public speaking competition. They spoke on the topic: ‘Should parents be blamed for Juvenile Delinquency?’

Each student presented two speeches; a prepared speech (on the given topic) which did not exceed ten minutes, and an impromptu speech which allowed for one minute to consider the topic and no more than two minutes to make a presentation. Topics for the impromptu included Regatta, Peer pressure, Tik Tok and Facebook.

When it was all over, Jayden Davis, the lone male participant, was adjudged winner of the prepared speech and Tione Small winner of the impromptu speech. Small spoke on the topic ‘Peer Pressure’. The overall winner, though, was Lorelei George.

Each participant received a certificate of participation and trophies were also awarded for the best prepared speech, best impromptu and the overall winner.