By Anastasha Elliott
The Vern N Llew Pre School on Tuesday held an open
day and art and craft exhibition where parents and
members of the general public were encouraged to visit
the school.
Parents in particular were asked to visit the school
and view the exhibition of artwork and other creative
expressions of their children that were on display.
One parent while viewing the exhibition said, “this
is nice, real nice.” Another parent said, “this is
lovely, just lovely.”
Vernitha Barry Collins, proprietor and principal of
the school was on hand to show parents and the public
around the small room decorated with the pre-schoolers
work.
At the end of the day she commended the parents for
“taking time out of their busy schedule and coming and
visiting with us today.”
The artwork and craft on display at the school held
several themes such as ‘Having fun with paper work’
and ‘Under the sea: Sea life’.
Teacher Manners who is in charge of the artwork of
the children in an interview mentioned some of the
artwork on display.
She said that in the having fun with paper work
section were paper lanterns, paper weaving and paper
chef hats in addition to paper plate tambourines and
paper machete morocas.
There were also caterpillars and beds made from egg
cartons, binoculars made from toilet paper rolls,
flower pots which the children painted, guitar
collages, a miniature house, shapes and other designs
the children created with wires and other artwork done
by the children of the school.
Teacher Manners explained that the exhibition was
held to portray the creativity of the children.
She said, “we have an art area in school where they
go daily to do something so that we can display it.”
Teacher Collins in an interview gave an update of the
month long celebrations of the school thus far.
She said, “so far we have had a very good response
from the parents.
Today (Tuesday) for example we had the art and craft
exhibition and quite a number of parents both past and
present came to visit the exhibition and commented
well on what the children are doing.”
The parent’s find it amazing the things that can be
made from paper she said. “I am very pleased with the
turn out today and I must commend the parents for
taking time out of their busy schedule and
participating in the event with us.”
The Vern N Llew pre-school is currently celebrating
its tenth year anniversary under the theme, Children –
Gems of Promise” with a number of activities that
began on April 22 and will culminate on May 30.
Upcoming events include clean up day on May 13,
parade day on May 19 and the fun day on May 30.
The school, which is located at Pump Road, first
opened its door to educating the very young under the
motto “Today’s preparation determines tomorrow’s
achievement” on April 29, 1996.
Then, a staff of two educated 13 pre-schoolers. Today
fifty students attend the school that has grown to a
staff of four. In ten years Vern N Llew has provided
pre-school education to 285 students.
Collins in a previous interview said the driving
force of her school, is the encouragement of parental
involvement in the operation of the school and the
development of each child.
