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Foundation Day is being held in commemoration of the Amalgamation of the Foundation Boys and Foundation Girls schools in the Christ Church Foundation School. The date selected was September 12th, 2003 as this marks the 25th anniversary of the Amalgamation.

We are asking all former pupils of Foundation School, Foundation Girls School or Foundation Boys School to wear gold and black, their old school uniform or part thereof, the school pin or the old scholar pin on that day.

Generally speaking the response from the students upon hearing of the event was great. Unfortunately the response from the administration of the various school was very anemic. With the flyers remaining where I had left them at the UWI two days before Foundation Day.

All schools were notified of the event during the week of August 25th by telephone and then by letter. However, having not heard anything from them a follow-up visit revealed that one school lost their letter, and none of the schools had begun to inform the student body.

Nevertheless upon presentation of the flyer to some students of the Barbados Community College a wild outburst of excitement filled the Student's Guild office followed immediately by plans by the Foundation students present to wear their uniforms on the assigned day.

Having visited the school on that day. No flyers could be seen, but it was obvious that the students heard as there were students in gold and black all over the campus. Some wore their school ties. Thanks a look to all the BCC crew that had anything to do with the Foundation Day planning. Hopefully UWI will learn something from that.

New Instruments

After many months of haggling with online music outlet music123.com and telephone calls to A&B Music here in Barbados the deal was finally closed on Thursday September 18th. On Monday the 22nd of September the much anticipated musical instruments were presented to the Foundation School by President of the Foundation Old Scholars Association Miss Velma King.

Mrs. Velma King addressing the students at the handover of the musical instruments In the background are some of the newly elected members of the Students Council.

She admonished the students to play the instruments well and become the best that they can be in their chosen musical careers. She asked them to care for the instruments and when they played, put in an extra note for the Association.

The items donated were a Peavey 7 piece drum set, Peavey KB3 amplifier and Roland EM55 electronic keyboard. Included in the package is an Alto Saxophone, but this item was not in stock at the time of purchase and will be delivered at a later date.

Present for the brief handover were the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation. The Nation Newspaper although invited did not attend.

Following are some other pictures taken at the presentation. The keyboard was purchased with an amplifier which was not photographed.

Students Council

The Students council for the year 2003 to 2004 was installed at the Christ Church Foundation School on Monday September 22nd during full assembly.

In her acceptance speech the President, Latoya Lucas said that she would distinguish her team from those before her. She will make progress for the sake of the students of Foundation where others had failed. She promised among other things to try to get fans to cool the heat and more benches for eating lunch. Below are the names of her executive.

President
Latoya Lucas

Vice Preseident
Tiffany Baptiste

Secretary
Cassondra Edghill

Treasurer
Giselle Green

Public Relation Officer
Marsha Gittens

Executive Members
Shawn Evelyn


Ay'sha Joseph


Dominique Carr



Year Representatives
1st forms Sherri-Ann Lachman

2nd forms Sherika Callender
3rd forms Naomi Lynton
4th forms Kyrstle Brewster
5th forms Nikita Carr

Cricket

During the holiday, the Foundation boys were invited to play at a cricket match organized by the Transport Board to celebrate their 48th anniversary. The guys attended an drove away with everything but the bus.

Foundation won the Challenge Trophy and the 1st place Trophy. The players taking the most wickets was Amory Holder and Dwayne Alleyne. The Man of the Match in the finals was awarded to team captain Amory Holder. He also couped the Man of the series award. Following are the names of the members of the triumphant Foundation team.

Amory Holder - Captain

Rashid Edwin

Kristopher Forde

Dwayne Alleyne

Ricardo Yearwood

Chad Batson

Andre Carter

Steve Pinder

Antoine Sargeant

Renaldo Arthur

Antonio Miller

Congratulations to all of you on your outstanding performance. Keep the lighthouse burning!

om Roebuck

You have been invited to take part in the Louis Lynch Cruise on November 1st from 10pm to 2am. The Admission is $40.00 on the MV Harbour Master.

Food on sale

DJ on board

Door prize to be won!


They want to see your face in de place!

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For the School that was our own

"...

The combination of two bodies

With single-minded drive

Untouchable!

..."

Those three lines borrowed from our very own school song is what the PTA and the Old Scholars Association are banking on to get them through.

Both bodies are endeavouring to work together on several projects which will enhance the quality of school life for our younger siblings. Yes they are our siblings. We are all members of the Foundation Family and these students are our little brothers and little sisters.

The projects:

The groups would like to provide benches for the children to sit on while they are at lunch. As you remember from your days at school. Seating space was always limited at Foundation and some of us had to stake a claim early to our favourite eating area in order to prevent it being taken. Each bench is estimated at a cost of $550.00.

The school host many cricket matches yearly. Some are local teams and some are international teams and other groups who stay at the school during the summer. We would like to construct a pavilion for the comfort of our team as well as these visiting tourist. This is a money opportunity for the school if we can provide better conditions for the players. We do not know the cost of the pavilion as yet, but it will be expensive.

FOSA Barbados recently donated a 7 piece drum set, electronic organ, amplifier and alto saxaphone to the school from our own funds. They are in need of more items:

2 Flutes
3 Clarinets
2 Alto Saxophones (1 to be presented later this month by Barbados)
1 Tenor Saxaphone
3 Trombones
1 Tuba or Bass Guitar with amplifier
1 Drum Set (already presented by Barbados to the school)
1 Keyboard with amplifier (already presented by Barbados to the school)
Musical stands.

CXC has added music to their curriculum and thus Foundation needs these instruments in order to prepare the students for the exams which will be in theory as well as practical.

Foundation has a roll of over one thousand children and 2 computer labs. During some years it is not possible for students who which to take Information Technology to do so because computers are limited. These children, having the capability to perform well at CXC are denied the classes because of available of systems. During the past summer holiday the school hosted a computer class in order to purchase a computer for themselves and it currently sits in the lab performing its assigned function. One other company donated some PCs. However there are still not enough to adequately teach a class as students are still having to share computers. During exam period when all IT students need to complete SBA assignments and CXC projects this is not acceptable. Hence the reduction in numbers allowed to take the subject.

The IT department requires 8 computers with the following specifications:-
AMD Athlon XP 1800 CPU
256 MB DDR SDRAM
Mid Tower ATX Case
1.44 Floppy Drive
40 GB Hard Drive (7200 rpm)
32/64 Mb AGP Video
17" monitor
Sound Card
CD ROM
Network Card
PS/2 Keyboard
PS/2 Mouse

Upgradeable to Athlon XP 3200.

The specifications are high since the PCs are meant to last as long as possible and will be used by students doing AutoCAD and other power hungry applications.

As stated the school has tried to help themselves, FOSA Barbados and the PTA are helping. We need as many of you that are able to donate what you can to help the school which fed you the knowledge ou currently use.

From time to time we talk about people who "forget where they come from" I hope you are not one of them. I would like FOSA New York, Canada and UK to please respond.

Environmental Club at Sherbourne

The Environmental Club at Foundation was present at the recent Environmental Expo held in Sherbourne Conference Center from October 17-19. The exhibition portrayed ways that we could reduce, reuse and recycle. A scale model of the Greenland landfill as well as the photos presented in a PowerPoint presentation showed those who were there the current problem that Barbados has. The mountain of garbage we affectionately call "Mount Stinkeroo".

According to the PowerPoint slide the growth of this mountain could be slowed down in several ways. We could

Bring our own bags to the supermarket

Recycle the things we normally throw away into usable items

Give away the things we do not use anymore but are still good, rather than dumping them

Also on display were items reused to make other products. One such display as a plastic tile made from an old banks drink crate. Another display showed recycled paper which the club had made at school.

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