George and Duke

Our Cultural Heritage

posted September 6, 2023

Our Cultural Heritage Speech delivered by the Principal on Worlds Cultural Day. To Remind us of the need to celebrate our Culture. Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical science artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations. Cultural heritage includes tangible culture (such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, books, works of art, and artifacts), intangible culture (such as folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge), and natural heritage (including culturally significant landscapes, and biodiversity).

The deliberate act of keeping cultural heritage from the present for the future is known as preservation (American English) or conservation (British English), though these terms may have more specific or technical meaning in the same contexts in the other dialect.

Head Boy Delivers a Speech on Good Hygiene

posted September 6, 2023

George and Duke Head boy delivers an assembly speech on the need for cleanliness and personal hygiene.

Personal hygiene is the practice that leads to body cleanliness and good personal appearance or simply personal grooming. The personal hygiene may be in the form of bathing, hair shaving or having a hair cut, brushing the teeth, washing of hands and clothes. There are a number of reasons for good personal hygiene and thus its importance. These include social, personal, health or psychological reasons. This paper evaluates the importance of good hygiene. Health Reasons The practices in personal hygiene contribute to good health. Personal hygiene helps in protection against some of the infectious diseases such as typhoid, cholera and dysentery. The practice of hand washing is often forgotten by many people yet it is one of the ways to prevent a plethora of diseases and disorders from developing. Use of unclean hands may make one, for example, contract diseases such as cholera or diarrhea. The hands should always be washed thoroughly before eating or preparing the meals so as to avoid contamination of the meals and hence minimize the development of the diseases related to the same.