Today the Ministry of Education held its annual Primary School Children's Rally - celebrated under the September Celebrations theme: "Many Faces, Many Dreams, One Goal: Celebrating Belize." The rally's main focus was patriotism which was highlighted in the list of items on the program. Over half the city's primary schools attended the event that was held this year on the Bird's Isle basketball court.
We found out more from the Ministry of Education's press officer:...
Arlette Gomez
"We normally used to call it the Children's Rally but we've added on another element to it where the afternoon - the high school students have a rally also. So we just called it the School Rallies."
"This morning we are doing the primary school rally and the theme for this rally is all about patriotism - so all the items that we've commissioned from the schools we've ask them to ensure that it has a patriotic element in there. We just finish listening to little Anthony Gill from Los Angeles. His grandmother is Henrietta Gill of the boxing fame in Belize and 10 years old and he is a motivational
speaker - well renowned in the United States. So are the things that we want our young children to start to emulate and to aspire towards."
"Like I said every item is a patriotic item today. We have Jack who is doing this ABC sound that is so popular among all the children right now and of course we have to listen to the minister's message so that the children could understand why we are here and to telling them all about the importance of education and the importance of patriotism of why we are celebrating the 10th, why we are celebrating the 21st."
And in the afternoon, the Ministry of Education also held a high school youth rally.
