ROADTOWN Tortola BVI, June 22nd, 2012 -- Parents, teachers, students and family members of our primary five exams students, as Minister of Education and Culture, I am pleased to offer congratulatory remarks to primary school students that were successful in this year’s exams.
Throughout the territory, a total of 419 students sat these exams; 364 were successful and 55 students were unsuccessful. The following is the breakdown of all primary five exam takers.
On Jost Van Dyke:
• Jost Van Dyke Primary had five students sitting the exams, three were successful and two students were unsuccessful.
On Anegada:
• Claudia Creque Educational Centre Primary division had 7 students sitting the exams and all 7 students were successful
The results for schools on Virgin Gorda are:
• Assembly of God Cornerstone had nine students sitting the exams, seven were successful and two students were unsuccessful.
• Valley Day School had two students sitting the exams and all two were successful
• Little Rainbow School had five students sitting the exams, four were successful and one student was unsuccessful.
• St. Mary’s School had three students sitting the exams and all three students were successful
• Robinson O’Neal Memorial had 18 students sitting the exams, 17 were successful and one student was unsuccessful.
• Bregado Flax Educational Centre Primary division had 27 students sitting the exams, 22 were successful and five students were unsuccessful.
Finally on Tortola, the results for this school year’s primary five exams are:
• Agape Total Life Academy had seven students sitting the exams and all seven were successful
• Alexandrina Maduro Primary had 14 students sitting the exams, 13 were successful and one student was unsuccessful.
• Althea Scatliffe Primary had 107 students sitting the exams, 93 were successful and 14 students were unsuccessful.
• BVI Seventh Day Adventist Primary had 23 students sitting the exams, 22 were successful and one student was unsuccessful.
• Ebenezer Thomas Primary had 19 students sitting the exams, 16 were successful and three students were unsuccessful.
• Enis Adams Primary had 24 students sitting the exams, 14 were successful and 10 students were unsuccessful.
• First Impressions had seven students sitting the exams and all seven were successful
• Francis Lettsome Primary had 20 students sitting the exams, 19 were successful and 1 student was unsuccessful.
• Isabella Morris Primary had 13 students sitting the exams, eight were successful and five students were unsuccessful.
• Ivan Dawson Primary had 15 students sitting the exams, 13 were successful and two students were unsuccessful.
• Joyce Samuel Primary had 16 students sitting the exams, 14 were successful and two students were unsuccessful.
• Leonora Delville Primary had 19 students sitting the exams, 15 were successful and four students were unsuccessful.
• St. Georges Primary had 31 students sitting the exams and all 31 were successful
• And Willard Wheatley Primary had 28 students sitting the exams, 27 were successful and one student was unsuccessful.
Throughout our primary schools Solene Seaman and Brandon Kartick are respectively the highest achievers on the primary five exams. Both Miss Seaman and Mr Kartick attend the St. Georges Primary School. Congratulations to both you and I encourage you to continue to achieve with excellence as you move on to high school.
I would like to offer congratulations to all principals teachers and staff of all our primary schools. I would however, like to extend special congratulations to the principals, teachers, staff and parents of six schools in our territory in which all students were successful in the primary five exams. Those schools were, Claudia Creque Educational Centre, St. Georges Primary, Valley Day School, Agape Total Life Academy, St. Mary’s School and First Impressions. It should be especially noted that First Impressions with their first cohort of primary five exam students, all seven students attained a grade one pass.
To our students that will be moving on to high school, congratulations. High school will surely be a memorable time in your life. You will make new friends, learn new ideas, and discover what you really would like to be when you grow up. The same study habits you had while preparing for the primary five exams, I encourage you to maintain those habits so that you will become successful throughout secondary education and be adequately prepared for life.
High school can be challenging at times, as it is the period in your life that you will mature into young adults. Always remember the values that were taught to you by your parents and guardians, you will soon gain even more insight on their wise words. In all that you do, in all that you pursue, I urge you to strive for excellence during your high school years.
To the 55 students and their parents that were unsuccessful in this year’s exams, I want to reaffirm my commitment as Minister of Education and the entire government’s commitment to find better opportunities to teach all of our students and to provide equitable education for all our young people in this territory.
Students can be unsuccessful in school for many reasons. However it will take our entire government and community to support the economic, social, educational and health needs of all of our youth to provide them an opportunity for advancement in the Virgin Islands. The Ministry and Department of Education is on a mission to create a culture of excellence in all our schools and students. That mission will entail finding new opportunities to teach all learning styles to provide an education to all of our students.
I fervently believe that all of our children are blessed with gifts and talents that can be positively shared with our community. My challenge and the challenge of our education system, is to develop ways to foster those talents and bring out the best in all of our students.
I want to take this time to encourage all parents, family members and friends of our students that will now be moving on to secondary school. Please remain as cheerleaders and supporters of those students and show the same enthusiasm for their academic progress now that they will be moving on to high school. These early adolescent years are crucial in helping them to develop a positive attitude of self, their education and ultimately what sort of contribution they will make to our community, professionally and socially.
They are adorable graduates that we will be celebrating at graduations over the next two weeks, but in the next decade, who will they be? Nurturing them throughout secondary school is our community’s chance to develop healthy, well-adjusted young adults and eventually leaders of our great territory.
As they enter secondary school, they will face a multitude of challenges, but they all need us to help them mature into their true potential. We cannot leave it entirely up to the principals and teachers of our secondary schools to refine these young people. So once again I urge you to remain active in all aspects of their lives.
Of course I must also say job well done to our principals, teachers and staff of our primary schools for your commitment to our students and their education. Your tireless work has not gone unnoticed.
While we celebrate our graduates, we also celebrate you and your contribution to their success.
As we are now fully engrossed in the 2012 graduation season, as a community, let us all continue to pray and ask God’s blessings on all of our students. Once again, to our primary five graduation class of 2012, congratulations!
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