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Green Meadow School celebrates the ‘seeds’ of the future
Green Meadow School celebrated the “seeds” of the future—their students—at their 13th Annual Recognition Program at the Charley’s Cabaret at Pacific Islands Club Saipan yesterday.
The ceremony, originally set at another avenue, was held at PIC due to the recent Typhoon Dolphin.
A crowd still turned up, though, made of parents and family eager to take photos of their little ones.
Green Meadow students win the audience over with their costumes. (Dennis B. Chan)
The ceremony awarded the school’s Kindergarten to fifth grade students with certificates, medals, or trophies for skills they’ve improved in or bested at in the school year.
School principal Milagros Songcuan recognized her student’s achievements in her opening remarks and highlighted their mission “to plant for eternity.”
“If you plant for today, plant a flower. If you plant for years to come, plant trees [but] if you plant for eternity, plant people,” she said, referring to her students.
Tan Holdings senior vice president Eli Arago, who was the inspirational speaker yesterday, echoed Songcuan when he emphasized the “seeds of knowledge that will ignite desire to discover more.”
This will lead to the pursuit to succeed in life, he told the students.
Arago reminded students that he and their parents had much harder obstacles while growing up in the Philippines. He said he had to walk five kilometers in the morning and afternoon to and from school.
He also noted that some began their education at 7 years old after spending their previous years helping their family.
But today’s students can start their education as early as 3 years old, he said.
“Education is the best weapon in the battlefield of life,” he said. “I hope you study hard because your parents worked hard.”
Green Meadow School is a preparatory school on island with campuses at Gualo Rai and Chalan Kiya.
Yesterday’s theme was from author Robert Louis Stevenson: “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
