by Sandra L. Blood
Trinidad and Tobago - Worldwide pan history was created within our 2013 Golden Jubilee, national panorama season at the schools’ panorama competition held at the “Big Yard’, Port of Spain, on February 3rd, when the St Margaret’s Boys’ Anglican School Steel Orchestra Under-13s copped a double hat-trick title, consecutively, playing Destra’s Vibes.
With a late start, the competition was opened with the national anthem played on the digital pan, for the first time, this, by two of its 11 year-old pannists while, the school also attained boasting rights of being the first to have performed in two categories within the same competition – Under-13 and Under 21.
Just when many are of the view that responsible men ‘cannot’ be developed through boys raised by females, alone, this concept is proving to be wrong as the school’s 300-odd male student population is privileged to be managed by female principal, Colette Perez, is educated by only female teachers, is protected by female security guards, both steelbands are managed by Standard Five teacher, Rosemarie Abraham; calypso competition coordinator, Standard Five teacher, Elize Hackshaw-Carlow and carnival band lead by, Second-Year teacher, Maria Ramkissoon and Standard Three teacher, Elizabeth Dookie-Carlow.
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Valid point you have made about female teachers-male students. What we want from a person, male or female,
is knowledge, dedication, ability to negotiate and transfer both.
Cheers, Sandra!