CCSS Students Receive Grand Back To School Welcome

Castries Comprehensive Secondary School (CCSS) students were welcomed back to school on Monday with much fanfare, including the sweet sounds of the steelpan. The school, which is marking its 50th anniversary, also welcomed members of its global alumni on Monday morning at its first assembly for the new school year. Castries North Parliamentary Representative Stephenson King was also present. The welcome celebration featured the unveiling of projects undertaken by the Alumni during this year’s summer break. The work included refurbishing the students’ bathrooms. According to Joanne Isaac, head of the Alumni Association, members collaborated with Top Stone Fabrication to refurbish the school’s bathrooms for approximately EC$40,000.00. “Lights will be placed above the mirrors, so yes girls you will be able to see how cute you are. No reason to enter the class room looking messy because how you look matters, boys as well,” Isaac said as students gave the donors a resounding round of applause. According to Isaac, members of the alumni association and some parents volunteered to paint floors, walls and desks and wipe down chairs in preparation for school reopening. She disclosed that various past students were part of an adopt-a-classroom program, while Stephenson King donated a state-of-the-art...