What an over whelming success this years final of Suubi’s annual music, dance and drama festival was. After 14 schools participated in the earlier rounds at Kawerimidde and Nakawanga Primary schools, it was wonderful to see the event finalised at Suubi Secondary & Vocational College.
The traditional dance, is always a crowd favourite; filled with energy and colour! The schools also performed a poem, composed song, play and creative dance as they fought it out in the earlier rounds for the honour of making the finals.
The winning school and runners up from the preliminary rounds, in each of the five events, took to the stage on finals day. Every single performance was filled with an amazing amount of energy and passion; each school did an outstanding job of following this years theme of 'Integrated Education And Lifeskills For Sustainable Development.' This certainly highlighted that the participating students had learnt the importance of combining academic, vocational and lifeskills to create a better life for themselves in the future. It was truely inspirational to watch them passing on this important message to the huge crowd that had come to enjoy the event.
While we are all used to seeing Elias as the MC of Suubi events, it seems he may have some competition in the future! Dalvin, David and Hellen’s young son, loved having the microphone in his hand and being the centre of attention.
Kiswera Primary School had the best results for the day taking out 2 first places and a second place across the five categories.
The tiny students from Lubanda Islamic primary school stirred the crowd in to a frenzy as they shook their little bodies in perfect unison during the traditional dance.
Everyone agreed that Bright Light Primary School did an outstanding job of passing on the theme via their poem and play.
The winners and runners up in each category were thrilled to receive a drum, of different sizes, for their school as their prize. Dance costumes were also distributed to all of the 14 schools who had participated throughout the earlier rounds, to recognise their efforts and all the hard work they had put in. We believe this will encourage them to continue to participate and strive toward even better performances in future years.
Results of 2016 event:
Poem - Winner - Bright Light Primary School. Runner up - Kiswera Primary School
Composed Song - Winner - Kiswera Primary School. Runner Up - Kawerimidde Primary School
Play - Winner - Bright Light Primary School. Runner Up - Namugongo Primary School
Creative Dance - Winner - Kiswera Primary School. Runner up - Kawerimidde Primary School
Traditional Dance - Winner - Lubanda Islamic Primary School. Runner up - Namugongo Primary School
The joy could be seen on the students faces as they received their prizes. They were all extremely proud of their schools efforts. It was fabulous to hear them celebrating together afterwards, from the surrounding schools, in true Ugandan style by drumming, singing and dancing.
Another very important component of the MDD event was also recognised at the final. Having previously sent a team from Suubi to judge the school gardens and sanitation, the winning school were announced. Sharon Primary School took out the best school garden and Kembazzi Primary School the best sanitation.
Sharon Primary School proudly excepted the perpetual school garden trophy that they will now retain until the 2017 event.
Congratulations and many thanks to the staff and trainers at each of the participating school and of course to the students who worked tirelessly to perfect their performances. A huge thank you must also go to our amazing Suubi staff who put in an enormous amount of work to make sure the 2016 Suubi MMD event was another huge success. It seems the event just gets bigger and better each year! We can't wait to see what 2017 will bring.
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