Monday, September 24, 2007

School's Back - Cassava River Inant & Primary

Cassava River Infant and Primary is the "grade school" associated with Holy Family Church in Cassava River, one of St. Mary's Mission churches. Each day begins with Devotional. The children gather for song, scripture and prayers. Amazingly from ages 4 through 12 they stand and listen as the principal, a teacher or one of the friars/sisters leads the Devotional. Here you will see the children press their lips as they quiet themselves before we say the Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be...the principal is not Catholic, one of 14 teachers is Catholic and less than a dozen of the children are Catholic... but all know their prayers, and press their lips when told to by the leader.

Here's a shot of the Infant Section, the five year old children with teacher. Currently this section of the school is being refurbished... imagine a job started on 9 July is not yet complete, and probably won't be until mid-October... but that's how it goes in Jamaica - soon come, soon come!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Soon come...soon come may well be goodbye.Maybe you paid them too early; so they did what the money was worth/dissatisfaction with the bargain. I suggest you turn to someone else.