Prin­ci­pal of the Diego Mar­tin Cen­tral Sec­ondary School Gayle Khan says the school has al­ways been com­mu­ni­ty ori­ent­ed.She said, too, that she was sat­is­fied with the school's per­for­mance over the years.Khan made the state­ment dur­ing the school's 50th an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions and an in­ter­faith ser­vice held on Fri­day at St Michael's and All An­gels An­gli­can Church, Wendy Fitzwilliam Boule­vard, Diego Mar­tin.

Ad­dress­ing stu­dents and guests at the func­tion, she said the school had al­ways been an in­sti­tu­tion with pos­i­tive im­pact and strong com­mu­ni­ty in­volve­ment.On Thurs­day, with the sup­port of the Fire Ser­vice Band, stu­dents pa­rad­ed through parts of Di­a­mond Vale.She said this was in an ef­fort to fos­ter greater aware­ness of the cel­e­bra­tions.Su­per­vi­sor III of the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion Ro­hit Dube who al­so at­tend­ed the func­tion, said the Diego Mar­tin Cen­tral Sec­ondary School could boast about the pres­ence of a strong ad­min­is­tra­tion from in­cep­tion.

Dube al­so spoke on the schools his­tor­i­cal sig­nif­i­cance say­ing it was one of the first five sec­ondary schools con­struct­ed in T&T when free sec­ondary ed­u­ca­tion was in­tro­duced un­der the lead­er­ship of T&T's first prime min­is­ter Dr Er­ic Williams.The school was opened on Jan­u­ary 16, 1961 to a stu­dent body of 106 and a staff of six teach­ers and has changed it's name four times dur­ing the past 50 years.