Global Fair Celebrates World Cultures at Parrott

Parrott student Aneesha Jayaram’s display on India featured a clothing rack of colorful traditional saris that students enjoyed trying on. (left to right) Jade Bright, Lainie Lewis, and Ruby Doughty.

Foreign language teachers at Parrott Academy congratulated their students on the school’s first World Culture Day held on Thursday March 31.  Over forty colorful student-designed displays filled the school’s Student Activity Center making a great opportunity middle and upper school classes to take an on-campus field trip

“Our foreign language students really took the initiative in this.  Our exhibition is totally student produced,” commented Carrie Carman-Jewers, who teaches Spanish.  Exhibits covered a wide variety of nations, from France and Italy to Poland, Ecuador, Nigeria, and India.  In many cases, students chose to showcase countries with a connection to their families.  

Parrott Academy’s foreign language teachers Sadie Crockett, Carrie Carman-Jewers, Whitney Grady, and Meda Piner teach French, Spanish, and introductory Latin classes.