Leon Hess Secondary School and Anglican Primary top elocution competition
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Contact: Claudia Monlouis
Monday, June 16, 2008 – The eight primary and five secondary schools, which participated in the recently concluded Hilford Deterville Elocution Competition are eagerly looking forward to next year’s competition.
The exercise sponsored by prominent lawyer and former senator, is meant to build on diminishing standards in the use of Standard English. Teacher in charge of the Anglican Primary School Ms. Marcellina Nelson says her students benefited from an intense preparatory process.
“I knew that they would have made it in the top, not necessarily first, but I knew that they would have made it in the top three. Last year we participated, and we came first in the district, and then we came third in the National Elocution Competition,” she said.
Meantime, English teacher at the Leon Hess Comprehensive Mcderlin Felix says the elocution exercise provided a platform for students to grow creatively. She said their interpretation of the poem, Parasite, by Hazel Simmons McDonald, provided such an opportunity.
“We interpreted ‘Parasite’ as a tree dying from vines on it, and then there was this last line that we did as a chant, where we thought that it represented Jesus dying on the cross for everyone, and being their hope in death and in life. We did it in the kind of chant priests use when they do their mass,” she explained.
The competition, which took place at the Marigot Secondary School, is one of the activities to culminate the observance of Reading Month held annually in May. |
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