George Town Primary School celebrated Commonwealth Day in traditional style, with students making elaborate and colourful displays of British Commonwealth countries.

Some of the kids actually dressed for the occasion in the national costumes of the countries they had studied.

Year Four teacher, Mrs. Jasmin McFarlane said: “The children have done presentations of different Commonwealth countries.

Other classes came in to see them, and the children were able to show them the displays they had made, and give them information on the different countries in the Commonwealth that they have studied.”

Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Cyprus, the Turks & Caicos Islands, India and Jamaica were just a few of the many displays full of writing, colourful pictures and models that the children had made on their chosen country.

Eight-year old Sanaa Archer had made her display on Zambia. “I made a model of Zambia and put in the names of the surrounding areas so you can see it’s a landlocked country,” she said, pointing to a map made out of modeling clay, with all kinds of African animals standing on it.

“This is an African Cow which doesn’t look like other cows -it kind of looks like a mountain goat,” she added.

Eight-year old Akeil Martin had made a magnificent display, all about Jamaica, on a big piece of board. He had spent many hours on the display, and many interesting facts about our nearest Caribbean neighbour were there, including pictures and information on all Jamaica’s National Heroes:

“Here are Nanny, Paul Bogle, George William Gordon, Samuel Sharpe, Sir Alexander Bustamante, Norman Washington Manley, and Marcus Mosiah Garvey,” he said.