Lewisville High gets expansion

Published: Wednesday | September 2, 2009


The parent-teacher association (PTA) of Lewisville High School in St Elizabeth has welcomed the $400,000 expansion work done at the institution by the Ministry of Education. Among the improvements are an additional nine classrooms.

PTA President Pauline Foster said the increased space should significantly enhance student performance as well as extra-curricular activity at the school.

"It is a welcome expansion and we are very grateful to the Ministry of Education and hope that our students will see what this investment is geared to achieve and do their best," she said.

"As parents, we have to instil in our students that they will have to help to care the facility and to make sure that they don't deface the walls. And we will do our best in whatever way we can to help to develop on this investment," Foster added.

Prior to the infrastructural additions, principal Ardith Forbes said a number of classes had to be conducted outside the building, which posed a challenge when it rained.

Additional amenities at the school include a netball court, football field, perimeter fencing, storm drains and a sewage treatment and disposal system.

"When we put everything together, it is great to have these enclosed buildings," Forbes said.