They made history!

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A hundred students from CP grades to CM 2 of Aline Hanson elementary school in Sandy-Ground and their comrades from MAC School in Sint-Maarten made history yesterday by participating in a relay race inter-schools to commemorate the sharing of the island in the manner of the historical legend of 1648. 

It is Dominique Boyer, Inspector of National Education in charge of the district of the Northern Islands who gave the start of the relay race from the border of the Lowlands.

The first runners of each team started back to back in opposite directions, as was the case in 1648…

The arrival, meanwhile, remained undetermined depending on the meeting point of the last torchbearers.

Present at the start of the race, Aline Dermaux, a teacher at the Aline Hanson elementary school in Sandy-Ground and coordinator of the Unesco project welcomed the implementation of this educational project in many ways:

- Bring students from both parts of the island closer together around an event commemorating a legend linked to the history of their island.

- Train student ambassadors of UNESCO values: peace, friendship and solidarity to promote cooperation and exchange between schoolchildren from both parts of the island.

- Affirm membership of one and the same community: Friendly Island

- Make the values ​​of secularism such as fraternity, tolerance and freedom which are the guarantors of living together triumph.

We will come back to this event in more detail in our Friday edition._AF

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