Education

The Anguilla Community Foundation, in conjunction with the Social Security Board, officially presented two sets of Scholastic Summer School Reading Programme books to the Learning Support Department at Campus B, Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School. This short ceremony took place on Wednesday of this week in the presence of education officials, the Principal, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the school and the second form Language Skills students of the Department who are now benefiting from this new reading programme.

The Rotary Club of Anguilla thanks all those who contributed to the success of the Boat Race fundraiser to provide books and computers for the Campus B Library including the owners and crew of the 12 boats, the public and the volunteers from Campus B who helped collect funds on the day of the race.

West End Primary School emerged winners of the 15th Annual Cable & Wireless Primary School Spelling Bee Competition held on June 5th at the Stoney Ground Primary School Auditorium.

The Woodbine Preschool celebrates its 25th anniversary this month under the theme ‘From the Past to the Future’.

A number of students at Campus B of the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School were honoured for their contribution to various aspects of the work of the school and to their own educational development.

As part of their all-round educational and spiritual development, students at Campus B of the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School are being exposed to a religious session in the courtyard each week. This has been organised by Deputy Principal and Head of the Campus, Anne Edwards, in cooperation with Ministers from various churches on the island.

The remedial reading programme now being carried out at the six Government primary schools in Anguilla, has been strengthened by the presentation of a number of much-needed children’s books. The reading materials were jointly funded by Michael Fleming (who undertook the project) and the Long Bay Lutheran Church whose congregation largely comprises visitors from the United States.

Monday April 28 was the first of a two-week workshop aimed at raising the standard of teaching and learning numeracy in the six public Primary Schools as well as the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School. The participating teachers from the Comprehensive School were drawn from the Mathematics and Special Needs Departments.

The Morris Vanterpool Primary School at East End and the Island Harbour Primary School are jointly sharing a quantity of supplies donated for use by the pupils.

With the 50th Anniversary of Secondary Education in Anguilla quickly approaching, plans are continuing for the celebration of the event with a number of activities.

I wish to address this article to all our school children. I am writing you this not to shame you but to admonish you as my beloved children (1Cor 4:14).

Early Childhood Education Month climaxed in Anguilla on March 29 with a mass parade of children representing all the preschools on the island. The march commenced on the grounds of the Scouts and Guides Ruthwill Auditorium and wended its way to the open area of the Agricultural Department’s premises.

Mr. Leon Roydon, the (owner/manager) of Malliouhana Hotel in Meads Bay, has answered the call to supply three of the greatly needed items in the 'Empowerment Through Literacy Programme' which is being spearheaded by the Teachers' Resource Centre at the Department of Education.

Around this same time last year, I published an article in connection with a visit I paid to the Probation Department in Barbados on 28 November, 2000. The visit enabled me to obtain some useful information about the functioning of that department relating to juvenile offenders; probation of offenders; maintenance, regulators and rules; and prison welfare and after care service. I am motivated to publish some portions of that article again because hardly anything has been done to help our young people with their problems.

This year’s Primary School Science and Technology Fair will be held at the Teachers’ Resource Centre from March 26-28. More than two hundred Grade 6 students from the public primary schools are developing the fifty-five projects that will be on display.

The recent gang beating of Claudel Romney Jr., a young student at the Comprehensive School, who was admitted to the hospital as a consequence, and other acts of deviant behaviour, have forced teachers to take a strong stand against violence in the school.

The Superintendent Minister of the Anguilla Methodist Circuit, the Rev. Lindsay Richardson has issued the following press release in which he condemned the recent acts of violence at the Albena Lake Hodge Comprehensive School.

Former Truancy Officer at the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School, Michael Fleming, says that some people are blaming the school for the spate of violence occurring there ever so often but they are mistaken.

The sixth form students from the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School who participated in the recent Annual Leeward Islands Debate have been congratulated for their performance.

Cable & Wireless in Anguilla is the first business unit in the region to offer the high-speed ADSL Internet Service to the Public Library and all schools on the island - and free of cost at that. (The new system will cost Cable and Wireless EC$20,000 a year).