Day to remember

Today at Gros Islet Secondary School,  another history was written. The day started with ecumenical service to celebrate teachers day and afternoon was taken to distribute laptops to form 4 students.

The ecumenical service was a blessing, some awesome gospels,  touching prayers, mindful scriptures and sermon. This year, sermon was done by Brother Denver Pierre from bethel tabernacle. He was passionate and captured single student's attention. He made them scream with his musical talent and even repent. The whole service was just melodious.  Mr Jeon backed up the whole ceremony. Oh by the way, one class just could not hold the appreciation they had for this specific teacher.  The presented her with a wine, she is none other than Mrs Pitcairn. She is a really great teacher who reaches students' heart, goes beyond her duties and teaches not only whats in the syllabus but the way of life. She is well respected around the school and deserves much praise for her work. She is my partner for home room and she has been supporting me in anyway possible. I dont have many viewers in my blog as its for more private use but I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mrs Pitcairn for all of her work, energy and determination.

After wonderful service,  teachers were treated with a little snack and a drink.

After lunch was the moment for some students. The government has decided to invest in education by providing form 4 students with a laptop, what they call a "tool" to provide equal opportunities in learning against other nations as well as financially abled families. Huge investment and a big step towards better quality in education and ICT. I personally can't wait to start my lessons with students using their laptops. A class where learning can be funnier, more enjoyable and more interactive than how it is now. I have already started a step closer before this ceremony by using Google docs, dropbox, blog and emaiks but this initiative will definitely make our communication faster and more efficient.  To this I say thank you to the government and special greetings to minister Robert Lewis and minister Emma Hippolyte.

Well folks this has been another edition of Day To Remember

Happy teachers week

This job, often criticized but hardly appreciated... It is wonderful to have a week celebrating dedicated to teachers. There are plenty of hard working teacher. I am a teacher and my friends are teachers, trust me, it takes dedication, patience and a lot more to stay in teaching, you have my word. When school does not perform well, teachers are blamed. Even to choose schools, public views as though the teachers are so great in over achieving schools compare to under achieving schools. I will tell you now, this is not the case. You can take the same teachers from under achieving school and replace them with the teachers at over achieving school. You will not see the difference. Perhaps if you can see the difference, the school will be beyond over achieving. My colleagues are so dedicated and passionate about teaching, its amazing to see that there are so many good people out there when we believed that the world no longer consists of good people including us. Anyways, this post is dedicated to all my colleagues and hard working teachers out there. Don't give up no matter how difficult it looks in our eyes. Your dedication and hard work will go along way, beyond what syllabuses and academic materials can teach. Bravo! to end I say HAPPY TEACHERS WEEK!!!