Students bring lunchtime entertainment

The Ministry of Education’s annual lunchtime concert series got off to a rousing start on Wednesday at Worthing Square with primary and secondary school students showcasing a range of talents.

From just after noon, children from the Parkinson Memorial School, LITE Primary School, Deighton Griffith Secondary, Ellerslie Secondary School, and St Martin’s Mangrove Primary School, took the stage to entertain the lunchtime crowd.

It was not only performing arts on show at the first of the four concerts being held as part of Education Month.

Education Officer for Music at the Ministry of Education, Randy Eastmond, said that additional creative art forms were added to the concert line-up this year.

“These lunchtime concerts have been going on for about 10 years or so, and annually in the month of October, we celebrate and we have students coming to perform in the area of music. This year, we have expanded the portfolio and we are looking at visual arts, dance, drama, etcetera, so that all of the arts are included,” he explained.

Twins Kaianna and Allyssa Boyce from the Ellerslie School performed a steelpan duet.

Eastmond added that there has been an increase in participation as well.

“During COVID and post-COVID, we would have only done like one or two concerts because schools were rebuilding their programme. Now we have a lot of enthusiasm so that we can actually furnish four concerts. That for me is a marked improvement after COVID. It shows that the schools are getting back into their music programmes,” he said. (SB)

Kymani ‘Mr Showman’ Devonish, the 2024 Junior Soca King, was in fine form during the afternoon concert.

Eden ‘Potent’ Murrell performed his piece, ‘Can’t Lash We’ which which he entered in the 2024 Junior Monarch competition.

Education Officer for Music at the Ministry of Education, Randy Eastmond.