Westbury Primary School honours world Peace Day

From left: Westbury Primary School leaders Layla Shepheard, Henry Marston, Charley Rock, Gus Perkins and Harley Nicholls, President of the Rotary Club of Westbury. Photo supplied

WESTBURY PRIMARY School students conducted a ceremony on Monday September 21, to celebrate the International Day of Peace.

The ceremony was held in the school grounds around a ‘Peace Pole’ donated and installed by the Rotary Club of Westbury.

The Peace Pole carries the bold inscription ‘May Peace Prevail on Earth’ written in a different language on each of the four sides of the Peace Pole: English, Japanese, French and Dutch.

The International Day of Peace is an initiative of the United Nations. The Rotary Peace Pole message states the very goal for which the United Nations was created 75 years ago.

The ceremony was capably led by members of the school’s SRC executive and fellow pupils, with the entire school in attendance.

President of Westbury Rotary Club, Harley Nicholls read a message from the UN Secretary General at the ceremony.

The key line from the UN Secretary General’s message was, ‘In these days of physical distancing, we may not be able to stand next to one another. But we must still stand together for peace.’

Mr Nicholls praised the school community for acknowledging the importance of world peace and commended the students for the manner in which they had conducted the brief but important ceremony.

He said that Westbury Rotary Club looked forward to this ceremony being conducted at the school each year, beside the Rotary Peace Pole, on the International Day of Peace.