Education

Anguillian student and Island Scholar, Ojeda Vanterpool, is the winner of the 2009 Eric Williams CAPE History Prize. The prize, introduced last year, is awarded by the Eric Williams Memorial Collection.

This article highlights the importance of encouraging students to attend school daily.
Many students from the ALHCS can be found on a daily basis loitering on the Ronald Webster Park and on the street during school hours.

The 4th Annual Health Authority of Anguilla-sponsored Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive Health Quiz, was held on Wednesday, September 30, at the Rodney McArthur Rey Auditorium.
The inter-house quiz is an initiative by the Health Authority, through the Health Promotion and Nutrition Unit, to prevent and reduce the incidence of chronic diseases among students at the school.

The Blowing Point Youth Development Centre is continuing its outreach to the youth of the community by putting on its first annual Summer Youth Programme. This year’s Programme will focus on three main areas namely: Reading, Arts & Crafts and Culture. Each of these areas has been organized in order to fulfill the Centre’s Vision of a community where all children and young people are equipped to reach their full potential.

The Island Harbour Primary School has been the recipient of a development grant of EC$500.

It is with great Pride and much joy that I stand here today, not only as the Valedictorian of the Class of 2009, but as a proud student of the best school, The Valley Primary School.

The arts and crafts exhibition mounted by the six Government-run Primary Schools in Anguilla has been described as a real showpiece. It was held over a two-day period last week at the Scouts and Guides Ruthwill Auditorium and attracted a number of spectators who expressed much appreciation for the high level of work.

A term-long Design and Technology project culminated on Thursday June 18 in a grand finish when Year 2 students of the Albena Lake-Hodge Comprehensive School participated in the 2009 Design Challenge. Students spent the term designing and making cars that would have as its main source of power: rat traps.

Four young persons from Anguilla are currently attending the 32nd World Affairs being held from June 20-26 at Carrol University in Wisconsin. The attendance was initiated by the Rotary Club of Anguilla that co-sponsored two of the students along with the Rotary Club of New York and the Anguilla Social Security Board. The other two are being sponsored by several businesses in Anguilla.

Campus B is functioning well as a breeding ground for competitive debates by Campus A students at the level of the Leeward Islands Debating Competition. The practice sessions, under the direction of Language Teacher, dramatist and public speaker, Colin Johnson, have been going on for sometime and reached a stage late last week when the debate for that day was broadcast live on Radio Anguilla.

The parents of Timarah Hodge, Timothy and Josette Hodge of Island Harbour, Anguilla have announced with pride her graduation from the University of the Virgin Islands (U.V.I.), St. Thomas Campus. She graduated on Monday 18th May, 2009 with a B.Sc. degree (Cum Laude) in Biology.

A gift of books on Black History Heroes and Heroines was presented to the Education Department by Bonita Klemm, a retired teacher from the United States. Bonita is presently one of a team of facilitators engaged in the training of the island’s Early Childhood teachers.

On invitation from the Department of Education, Professor Stafford Griffith, Director of the Caribbean Centre for Excellence in Teacher Training (CCETT), and Mr. Delroy Alleyne, the Regional Coordinator, met with officers from the department on Thursday 7th May, 2009 to discuss the introduction of the CCETT project in the primary schools in Anguilla.

Some 182 students in Anguilla sat the practical music examinations last week. The exams were administered by the United Kingdom-based Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.

Twelve-year old Anguillian student, Coleen Johnson of the Orealia Kelly Primary School emerged victorious at the Caribbean District Optimist International Oratorical Contest The contest which took place in Jamaica on Saturday April 25th, was held in Kingston, Jamaica, and saw participants from Suriname, Curacao, Barbados, Jamaica and Antigua and Barbuda and Anguilla.

The Community Relations Department of the Royal Anguilla Police Force has again concluded another phase of its Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) programme taught to the kindergarten children in all eight primary schools on the island.

The following is a press release issued by Mrs. Chanelle Petty-Barrett, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education.

Twenty-three Grade 3 students at the Central Christian School at Rey Hill are getting ready for their Test of Standards and as part of that exercise they embarked on a number of field trips on Friday, April 24.

Twenty students of the Albena Lake Hodge Comprehensive School’s Hotel Management 5th form class, accompanied by three chaperones, were in Orlando, Florida, during the Easter Vacation from April 3rd to 13th.

The Rotaract Club of Anguilla will be holding a Book & Supplies Drive on Saturday 25th April 2009 outside the Anguilla Public Library as part of its annual International Service Project. Books and Supplies gathered from this event will be donated to a local school in Dominica, which caters to children with Special Education Needs.