Sweet treat - Tulloch Primary gets equipment after topping Honey Bun sales
Published:Wednesday | June 29, 2011 | 12:00 AM
Karen Sudu, Gleaner Writer
TULLOCH, St Catherine:
THE HONEY Bun School Dayz competition has left a sweet taste in the mouths of the staff and students of Tulloch Primary School in Knollis, St Catherine. The institution pocketed the first prize of three computers, a printer, a laptop and one year free Internet access, compliments of LIME.
For boasting the top concessionaires, Winsome Wright and Delores Pinnock received spa gift certificates and the school also won a flat screen TV.
Winners were adjudged based on the most Honey-Bun sales by population.
An elated principal, Vince Williams, lauded the pastry company for the initiative implemented in 2005, which seeks to encourage students to communicate the importance of education.
"Honey Bun and this activity speak to entrepreneurship, if we can sell their products, it therefore means that we have a reward at the end of the day and to have marketed the products to the extent where, with a population as we have ... we came out nationally as number one, it is a tremendous achievement," said Williams.
An opportune time
The prizes, he added came at an opportune time.
"Our laptop just went bad, so as principal I don't have a laptop. Our computers in the lab are slow and some are not working. In the office, we have one that just went bad too, so we are happy that we have new computers that will make our office more efficient and it will in every way help our school," said the proud principal.
Evadne Jarrett, principal, Dennis Tobin Preparatory School, Trelawny, was equally proud, as they copped the second prize of a microwave and a computer and printer.
Additionally, the students who submitted the most entries were rewarded for their efforts. Taheim Young of Alpha Primary School in Kingston was first, Patricia Parker, Townhead Primary, Westmoreland, copped second, while Romaine Gray, Maggotty High School, St Elizabeth, completed the top three.
Meanwhile, Krystal Chong, marketing director, Honey Bun, said she was pleased with the eight-month campaign, during which the Honey Bun team visited 400 schools, engaging the students in exciting and entertaining activities, including dancing and donut-eating contests.
"The fact that we were exposed to a lot of kids, we wanted to communicate something positive, as supposed to buy more products, have fun dancing, have fun eating. We made it youthful with the singathon contest and it was a big idea and it wouldn't have been possible without the support of our sponsors," she told The Gleaner.