Wayne Channer (‘Jolly Bus’)

Dear Mrs. Lorna Stanley,

I thankful for the good things you have done to make me achieve. Like the most important thing is learning how to read and how to write. I am very, very thankful for that and not that only. I thank you for the discipline and the other things you teach me to do like loving one another and also having respect for each other.

I am happy for this school Operation Restoration Christian School. Years and years [have] passed but I still remember the good—joy, love, peace and happiness. Wherever I go, whatever I do, I still remember Aunty Lorna too.

Wayne Channer

Wayne Channer singing the song which he wrote about the school

Wayne Channer who they call ‘Jolly Bus’ wrote this song for the school:

I MAN GO SCHOOL

Tell dem say I man no fool
Dem fi know say I man go school
I man can read and write
So you si say I man non fool
An I man know all di rule.

A Restoration Christian School mi use to go
A Sister Lorna teach me how to read and write you no
A decent people grow help me
An a bare good things dem show me

An Sister Lorna teach me how fi live yo no
She say fi work hard and no beg you no
She say mi no fi tief, mi no fi lie, mi no fi cheat
Mi no fi borrow or trus.

Mi write dis song ya
An tell the world it a go bus
Cause a mi dem call Jolly Bus
An I man a no bogus

Cause A Restoration Christian School mi use to go
A Sister Lorna teach me how to read and write you no
A decent people grow help me
An a bare good things dem show me
An a mi dem call Jolly Bus
An I man a no bogus

Jolly Bus