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Posted: Friday 15 January, 2016 at 4:26 PM

Irish Town Primary Reopens Reading Recovery Room

By: EMU, Press Release

    (EMU) – St. Kitts, January, 14, 2016: With the aim of providing interventions to assist children with reading disabilities at an early age, the Irish Town Primary School reopened its Reading Recovery room, this time in honour of past Educator, Ms. Alvet Martin. 

     

    On Thursday January 14, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Mrs. Ionie Liburd Willett, Chief Education Officer, Dr. Tricia Esdaille, and other Education officials including Principal, Mrs. Jean Boddie-Nisbett and members of the staff, parents, students and well-wishers witnessed the ribbon cutting of the Alvet Martin Reading Recovery Room. 

    Principal, Mrs.BoddieNisbett, in her remarks reflected on the commitment it took to get the Reading Recovery Room re-opened and applauded her staff for a job well done, “We received assistance from the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank at afternoons, they have realized that reading with the students has improved and I am grateful for that.  We want to continue the reading recovery programme here and I employ you the teachers who have been put in charge to make the best of what we have here and improve the quality of service for the children.”  She then thanked Ms. Martin for implementing such an initiative during her tenure as a teacher at the school, “Today I am very pleased that we are here to re-open the Reading Recovery Room at the Irish Town Primary School, and that we do it in honour of Ms. Alvet Martin who has toiled with the school for many years.” 

    Mrs. Jacqueline Lewis-Bassue, Reading Support Coordinator at the Curriculum Development Unit, praised the principal and staff at the Irish Town Primary for taking the initiative aimed at the advancement of the students.  She mentioned that in addition to the scheduled reading time, students who are below the average stage in reading are allotted an extra 30 minutes of individual attention with the aim of bringing them up to the level of their classmates.  She announced, “The initiative that the Irish Town Primary School took to refurbish its reading room and get its Reading Recovery Programme going is one of the ways that we can develop the ability of our struggling readers to cope with that vast amount of print they encounter in their daily lives.”

    Ms. Martin has been a stalwart in Education and more specifically the Irish Town Primary School for many years, and has always believed that lifelong learners need good reading skills.  Her response when notified that the School would reopen its Reading Room and name it after her, “It was a very proud moment, I am humbled by the notion, shocked at the gesture and really appreciative of the thought.”  She admitted that due to physical ailments she had not been as active with the school’s events for the past couple years, but has always kept in touch with the Administration.  

     
     
     
     

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