Members of the Public Relations and Advertising Division on the Jamaica Data Service (JIS) took Learn Throughout Jamaica Day to St. Thomas on Tuesday (Could 6) with a mid-morning occasion on the Grants Pen Main and Toddler Faculty.
The staff learn varied books to college students at completely different grade ranges and engaged the kids via riveting discussions and question-and-answer periods.
Supervisor for the Division, Andrea Braham, famous that the aim of the go to “is actually to encourage youngsters to learn and to develop a behavior of studying”.
She famous that the scholars participated effectively within the periods and had been receptive of the fabric.
“It’s a stunning faculty. The kids are beautiful and so it’s actually a pleasure to be right here. The scholars are vivid, they usually participated and embraced the messages which are within the books,” she mentioned.
Ms. Braham learn to the scholars from Deniece McKessy’s ‘Dawn to Sundown: Constructive Day by day Proses for Children’ which is a group of prayers and affirmations to information youngsters all through their day.
Different members of the staff learn a wide range of books that had been all strategically chosen for the younger listeners.
“We selected tales that the youngsters might relate to. A lot of the books that we used had been native authors [and] some had been advisable by the Ministry of Training, Abilities, Youth and Data,” Ms. Braham knowledgeable.
The varsity’s Principal, Rev. Dr. Gillian Jackson, was grateful for the go to and the studying assets that had been offered to the 60-year-old establishment by the JIS staff.
These included posters of Jamaica’s nationwide heroes and symbols in addition to colouring books, which had been all created by the JIS.
“Because the saying goes, ‘studying maketh a full man’. It additionally maketh a full lady, a full boy and a full woman. Studying is the muse on which all different expertise are constructed and so, for our college students to have the ability to learn, our academics and different adults should take a eager curiosity in supporting and supplying them with the requisite instruments and assets for them to have the ability to learn,” Principal Jackson mentioned.
She famous that the scholars appreciated the go to.
“It has made a distinction to have the guests right here, who’re so energetic and vivacious, who’ve made [books] come alive for them. The seems to be on their faces inform all of it – they need [JIS] might keep,” she mentioned.
