DAFFODIL INTERNATIONAL School, New Sebrepor, Tema, recently marked the 2018 edition of its annual Yellow Day Celebration.
Coincidentally, the daffodil plant, which the school derives its name from, a genus of the narcissus family is predominantly yellow in colour or features a bit of yellow in its white species.
The yellow day of the 2018/2019 Harmattan (Autumn/Winter) term which was held on the 5th of October, is first of many to come, to celebrate colours. With the school named after Daffodil, it was only worthy that the tradition starts with the colour yellow.
The school’s reason for organising colour days periodically (termly) and during school hours, is in line with the world being made up of colours.
With Colour Day, Daffodil International Schools hopes to make it easier for pupils to recognise and identify colours at an early age. Also, the school aims to help its pupils create the cognitive link between visual clues and words, which is vital to their development.
As most sub-Saharan African countries enjoy a rather humid weather this time of the year, with a generous amount of sunlight, browns and even dust; it is nostalgically thematic that the colour yellow was chosen.
Yellow is a fun colour and the brightness and infectious joy that comes with all things yellow. From banana to the beautiful sun in the sky. Sunflowers and wild marigold stay confident in my fondest memories of the journey home from school. A certain portion of the road was lined with wild marigold and it always gave me a bright smile as I looked forward to seeing mommy after school.
For Daffodil International School, yellow represents the beautiful daffodils which stand for hope. The gold (yellow) of the Ghanaian flag represents the riches in mineral, which Ghana is notable for. Gold which is significant for all that it symbolises in our world today is a lustrous and precious derivative of the colour yellow.
Sweet yellow peppers, pineapple, corn and banana are just a few fruits and vegetables packed with nutrients; also, a variety of food crops blossom in beautiful shades of yellow when they are ripe. Rain might be necessary for growth, but sunlight ensures that plants can produce chlorophyll and we can have laundry days.
Most adult males call all shades of and from red, red. And when in doubt, when it comes to colours that look like a combination of two-significant colours, you hear men say, blue-green for all colours like turquoise, teal, aquamarine and other colours in the “cyan” colour range.
Source: Ghana/Starrfmonline.com/103.5FM