Lyssons Primary enriched
Published: Saturday | September 19, 2009
Minister of Education Andrew Holness, seated at left, watches Emanuel Wilson, a grade six student at Lyssons Primary School, demonstrate the use of one of several learning tools in the school's enrichment centre. Looking on from left are: Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Audrey Sewell; Member of Parliament for St Thomas Eastern, Dr Fenton Ferguson; Chairman of Digicel Foundation, Lisa Lewis; and special education teacher at the Lyssons Primary School, Rebecca Minott. - Photo by JIS
LYSSONS, ST THOMAS:
What is termed an enrichment centre was opened at the Lyssons Primary School in St Thomas on Wednesday.
The centre was established through the Enrichment Centre Initiative, a partnership between the Ministry of Education and the Digicel Foundation. It is now one of 13 such centres established under the programme.
Enrichment centres are resource rooms with computers, interactive whiteboards, literacy and numeracy software and other teaching aids. The Digicel Foundation also facilitated training of resource-room teachers in the use of the equipment and various teaching aids.
enrichment centres
Digicel Foundation has spent $33.6 million establishing enrichment centres in 12 schools: Lyssons Primary, Waterford Primary, Franklyn Town Primary, Balaclava Primary, Victoria Town All-Age, Cave Hill Primary, Drapers Hill All-Age, Melrose Primary and Junior High, New Hope Primary, Moneague Primary and Junior High, St Ann's Primary and Spanish Town Primary. Spanish Town Primary has received two centres.
Special Education Coordinator for the Education Transformation Project, Dr Michele Meredith-Dobbs, said the schools were chosen from among 30 which had received 30 per cent or less mastery in the Grade Four Literacy Test between 2006 and 2008.
- JIS
