ROADTOWN Tortola BVI, September 25th, 2012 – Class three students from across the Territory have benefitted from an annual donation of Oxford Dictionaries from the Rotary Club of Road Town as funded by the Rotary family.
Minister for Education and Culture Honourable Myron V. Walwyn welcomed the donation as the Ministry and Department of Education has embarked on a quest to promote literacy within the schools.Minister Walwyn in his remarks at the distribution ceremony to the Enis Adams class three students thanked the Rotary Club for their generous contribution and their continued involvement in the schools.
“The dictionaries are very important and we support the initiative as this is the year of literacy under the Ministry and Department of Education. We want to ensure that we have a population that can understand,” he said, stressing that “Reading is important; Comprehension is important and dictionaries go a long way in helping our people understand what they are reading.”
President of the Rotary Club of Road Town Mr. Trefor Grant said that the club looks forward to the annual event as Rotary supports and promotes literacy within the schools.
“Literacy is one of the main things that Rotary promotes and supports within schools. By furnishing the students with dictionaries it is our way of saying, ‘We are going to help you learn’”.
Mr. Grant stated that a dictionary is a vehicle by which new words are learnt and without one, students cannot understand new words and gain necessary knowledge.
Principal of the Enis Adams Primary School Mrs. Carleen Simmonds- Parsons said that the dictionaries are very appropriate for the grade level of the students as most students inherit collegiate level dictionaries from their parents or still have their initial dictionary from lower elementary school.
“As you go through primary school, the levels change so quickly that the dictionaries have to be changed as well. It is very good that at class three the students get these new dictionaries which can take them through to high school,” she said.
Principal Parsons thanked the Rotary Club for their donation which would strengthen the language arts competency of the students and improve their literacy.
The Ministry of Education and Culture supports public private partnerships which create meaningful avenues to enhance the learning capabilities of the Territory’s students.
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