NADB targets Seaward Primary and Junior High with Junior Camp
In a step to strengthen the educational standards in primary schools across the island, the National Association of Domino Bodies (NADB) has turned its focus to the Seaward Primary and Junior High School by launching its 2016 Junior Camp at the school last Thursday.
The two-week programme under the theme ‘Committed To Memory’ will get under way on Monday and this year, the initiative is focused only on improving the learning aspect of students at the Seaward Primary and Junior High School.
The Sport Development Foundation has once again stepped forward as sponsors for the camp.
Humbert Davis, camp director, said that this move is a continuation of their thrust to develop and improve the students learning abilities and to help in their future endeavours.
“Throughout the two weeks, we will be practising with these youngsters how to utilise their resources and engage their minds to retain information and appreciate space, to develop other skills that can assist them in their future endeavours,” Davis told the
Jamaica Observer.
Davis revealed that the programme will involve the use of the newly launched Play Exercise Books.
“The objectives of the books are summed up by these main verbs — conduct, contract and construct. The students taking part in the camp will get an understanding of these three words from a more practical sense, using domino as the cellular units in achieving this understanding. Once they have a complete practical understanding of these — gathering this information from performing actions involving these verbs — their understanding will reciprocate in their daily behaviours outside of the books. This will in turn improve their general morals and attitude,” Davis noted.
Vice principal of Seaward Primary and Junior High School, Coral Marshall, welcomed this initiative from NADB.
“This is a very great moment for us. We are celebrating our 60th anniversary and we are going through the process of change and we thank NADB for coming on board and helping us with this change. This programme will surely help our students here and I believe that the camp will be very successful,” Marshall said.
