It was a day to celebrate when Charterhouse School’s Grade 2M class hosted a Freedom Day assembly for the junior primary. The morning of 21 April will go down as a chart-topping day by the class.
Junior primary pupils assembled in the hall on that morning when the class took to the stage and danced to hip-hop rapper, Pharrell Williams’s song titled Freedom.
Principal of the school, Natalie Thwaits, said that a sense of liberation spread through the school hall and urged all the pupils to clap their hands and tap their feet. She went on to add that the class followed this cheerful rendition with sentiments of what they would be free to do come 27 April. “They shared that they were pleased to get to spend a free day with friends, getting out of bed a little later and watching movies,” said Thwaits.
“However the niceties of a free day were quickly overturned when a pupil shared that Freedom Day is more than that,” expressed Thwaits. She said that pupil shared that it is in fact an opportunity to celebrate our freedom as children of South Africa. She went on to add that the pupil divulged that the day is to celebrate their equality and right as children to live free and fair within and out of our school day. “The pupil concluded with God Bless Africa and God Bless Charterhouse.”
Details: Charterhouse Preparatory School, 011 475 6809.
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