At a press event held late last week to announce the results of the latest round of the BJC and BGCSE national examinations the Minister of Education and Technical and Vocational Training, the Hon. Glenys Hanna Martin also outlined new initiatives to improve student performance.
She said, “we’ve introduced success coaches and they will be on 15 campuses. They will work with young people, in particular, who we have identified as needing support. We want to make sure they don’t fall between the cracks. The success coaches will also work with students on each campus who are high performing because we want to ensure that they are able to, in my words, bust out as much as they’re able to in their talents and abilities. So the success coaches on the campus will help us close gaps with our children.”
Principal at Sybil Strachan Primary School, Sheanda Maycock said the biggest challenge is parental support and parent accepting responsibility for their children. “Our PTA numbers are low and its discouraging. We need more parental involvement, more parental support. When we send things home for the children to do we want the parents to be an extension of us and help the child.”
According to Maycock the school in implementing new strategies to improve student achievement. She said, “we have goals set in place on what we want to achieve with students academically in terms of grade point averages, in terms of their overall performance. So we’re putting measures in place, strategies, remediation practices to make sure we move towards that. We’re also looking at the entire child. We’re gonna bring on some more after school clubs and we’re gonna bring on volunteer programs to help with the children and even professional development for our teaching staff, teacher’s aids and support staff. We’re putting things in place for them and also international conferences. We want every year to be better and we want things in place so that we can achieve our goals.”
Education officials are expected to inspect ongoing school repairs this week ahead of the start of the new school year.
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