Student-teachers step up to the plate in Westmoreland

Dalton Laing, Westmoreland

SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland:

Students took over the jobs of teachers and administrators at some of Westmoreland's high schools yesterday.

At The Manning's School, for example, student-teachers, smartly dressed, gave their teachers a well-deserved rest for Teachers' Day by taking charge in the classrooms.

The more than 70 students who were selected to take on the challenge were up to the task, hence they prepared themselves and executed the job with efficiently.

"They were supposed to go until 11:05 a.m., but then we heard that things were going so well so it was extended to the end of the day," principal Steve Gordon told The Gleaner.

Francis Blythe, coordinator for the Teachers' Day programme, said "the students who were selected to be teachers and administrators delivered well".

Elsewhere in the parish, the buzz of Teachers' Day excitement continued with the same practice at Little London High School.

Students at that school took over the classrooms for the morning sessions.

Meanwhile, teachers of Grange Hill High spent the day at a resort in Montego Bay, while those from Maud McLeod High in Darliston had a picnic at Fonthill Beach Park in St Elizabeth.