Georgetown : Chief Education Officer, Olato Sam visited three schools in the city, Liana Nursery, Winfer Gardens Primary and St. Joseph’s High on the opening day of the second semester of the school year. The official visit was to ensure that teachers and students are prepared for the learning process to continue. Throughout the country education officers participated in similar activities as schools reopened their doors after the two-week Christmas vacation.
While at St. Joseph’s High, Sam encouraged the CAPE and CXC students to work hard towards completing their School Based Assessments (SBAs) so that they can have as much time as possible for revision. He stated that the Education Ministry is re-enforcing that SBAs must be done early this year.
The students’ success is also being attributed to the pilot project which focuses on improvements in Maths and English. The programme which was introduced at the end of 2011 saw Guyana
“We also want our students to commit themselves, make a resolution that their attendance and punctuality will certainly be the highest because we cannot get the level of output we aspire to unless our teachers and students are there on time and regularly, and do the work that is expected of them,” Sam said.
Additionally, the Education Ministry is plugging its literacy drive through which better students are expected to emerge from the primary level. “This year we are using all of the indicators coming out of the assessments so that the necessary lessons can be learnt, (we) can make the necessary adjustments, use the technology more, that is available to us, and improve our students’ performance across the country,” he emphasised.
With regards to the availability of text books, Sam said schools are required to conduct book audits at the end of the school year, and once that information is fed to the Ministry they in turn replenish the needed books.
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