Pleas­antville Sec­ondary School marked its 50th an­niver­sary with a tea par­ty and fash­ion show, “Blush­es of El­e­gance”, at the Petrotrin Staff Club in Pointe-à-Pierre on Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 26.

Stu­dents trad­ed their school uni­forms for fash­ion­able at­tire as they took to the run­way un­der the cre­ative di­rec­tion of Jaqui Koon­how and styl­ist Lar­ry Ram­per­sad.

For­mer Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion Hazel Man­ning, pa­tron of ho­n­our for the event, was among the guests who at­tend­ed the cel­e­bra­tion. She watched as stu­dents mod­elled a va­ri­ety of de­signs dur­ing the fash­ion show­case.

Guests al­so em­braced the event’s pink-themed at­mos­phere, with many wear­ing shades of pink in recog­ni­tion of breast can­cer aware­ness.

Mu­sic formed an­oth­er part of the af­ter­noon’s pro­gramme, with vi­o­lin­ist Anselm Wal­ters and vo­cal­ist Joel John pro­vid­ing en­ter­tain­ment for pa­trons.

The fash­ion show fea­tured cre­ations from sev­er­al lo­cal de­sign­ers and bou­tiques, in­clud­ing Zadd & East­man, To­bye Gill, Ani­cia Brooks, Je­belle Bou­tique, Lar­ry Ram­per­sad, Ann Marie Gopaul and Blaine Khan.

The cel­e­bra­tion com­bined fash­ion, mu­sic and com­mu­ni­ty as Pleas­antville Sec­ondary School re­flect­ed on five decades of his­to­ry and achieve­ment, while pro­vid­ing its stu­dents with an op­por­tu­ni­ty to par­tic­i­pate in an event be­yond the class­room.