KEMAR ENGLAND and CHEVELLE GAYLETrudy Simpson, Staff Reporter
THIS SUMMER is shaping up to be a good one for Kemar England and Chevelle Gayle but the two, students at the Naggo Head Primary School in Portmore, St. Catherine, are looking forward to the start of the new school year in September.
With smiles in their voices, they both announce their joy at receiving Government scholarships to attend Campion College in St. Andrew in September 2003.
"I feel very blessed and I am thankful to God. I am very excited," said Chevelle, who won the George William Gordon Scholarship while Kemar said that his scholarship award left him "close to crying, and jumping and screaming."
Chevelle, a future artist and scientist, plans to develop technology to make cars hover off the ground and stop emitting exhaust fumes.
She said GSAT is only the first step but that it took her study periods of up to two hours a day and lots of determination and dedication to her homework to be successful in the examinations.
It also took lots of support from her mother, Chebicha Campbell and father, Percival Gayle to gain success, she said.
For Kemar, a prefect and future pilot or medical doctor, GSAT also meant a little nervousness, a lot of hard work and periods of study.
But fun was not left out. Among Chevelle's top fun priorities were video games, action movies, music, football, physical education classes, the Drama, Builders', Debate and Quiz clubs.
Like her, Kemar spent many an afternoon playing video games, reading, captaining the Quiz Club team, debating and participating in track and field events, the builders club and mathematics club.
Foreign languages are also a budding passion for Kemar, who speaks some Spanish and helped to bring his team to runner up status in a recent KFC Prep and Primary Schools Quiz Competition.
"For the medical doctor career, I like to help people who are sick so I can help them to help themselves. For the pilot, I want to become somebody who travels around the world and speak different languages to different people," Kemar said.
For her part, an ecstatic Floretta Plummer, Naggo Head Primary's principal, described Chevelle as "a very serious student. Chevelle is a quiet worker with excellent behaviour. Kemar is a well rounded student."
She also credited teachers at the school for the success of Chevelle and Kemar.
"These teachers are very good, very dedicated and they work very hard," she said, adding that every year with the exception of last year, Naggo Head Primary has received Government scholarships. "I am extremely proud. I am more so proud of my teachers. I am extremely happy this morning," she said.
