BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – IT is not only a new school year for the Tucker-Clarke Primary School but also a new look as the school was newly painted during the Summer vacation.
Principal of the School, Sylvester Charles, said they have forged a partnership with the Newtown Sports Club who has been very generous with regards to the school.
He said that the club’s President, Dr. Mark Hodge has been instrumental in sourcing the funding that the school needed to get the project going.
“He likes children, and believes that if we harness our children we can do something positive in the community. The community is gone when they’re teenagers; we have to start at the primary school level to hone them and give them a good education and one of the ways is to beautify, to make the place a welcoming environment, so when they come they’ll want to stay,” he said.
Charles said it was not the first time the club had assisted in sourcing donations for the school and added that they had received a new computer lab and 27 state-of-the-art computers earlier this year.
“I would like to thank Dr. Mark Hodge and the Newtown Sports Club for their generosity in helping our school. We are proud recipients and the donations are so timely, especially since we can get them now, looking at the economic situation,” Charles said. “Education and the Tucker-Clarke primary are very grateful.”
The school is painted in two tones of blue with a beautiful blue mural at the entrance of the school.
“We are embracing nature; we are embracing the sea; we are close to the sea and also we’re embracing the sky because we are reaching for the sky and our performances have been soaring in the sky,” the Principal said.
He said they have been excited about the new school year and that they had quite a number of transfers to their school from private and public schools.
“We had an enrollment of about 70 new students and we pride ourselves on being the best school in the Federation. We have had good results, good standing performances in both Academics and Sports and you find a lot of persons gravitate to the school, and a number of students who had gone into the other primary schools and they are from the area are coming back home because they see the teachers work very hard and they have been successful,” he said.
Charles said they have plans to play close attention to the violence and anger management issues at the school.
“We have partnered with Operation Future and they have been here consistently and we have been happy to work with them on Anger Management policies.
“One thing is important, from the primary level you can identify students who can give trouble and have anger issues. If you identify those students early, you can stop a lot of things from happening. I think you have a better hand on the children when they’re at primary school,” Charles said.
