Ministry pleased with school repairs

Maintenance work conducted on two northern schools has received the thumbs up from Chief Education Officer Dr Ramona Archer-Bradshaw.

On Wednesday, Dr Archer-Bradshaw and a team that included Deputy Chief Education Officer Joy Adamson and Director of Education Reform Dr Idamay Denny visited the Coleridge and Parry School and the Elliott Belgrave Primary School in St Peter.

“I must say that we are very pleased with the outcome,” said Dr Archer-Bradshaw.

“At the Elliott Belgrave School there was major repair to the roof and we are pleased with the work there. We have come to the Coleridge and Parry and we are exceedingly pleased with the work done here by the team from CRS Building and Maintenance.

“This work was supposed to take a number of months. However, they fast-tracked the work and were able to complete the work in a few weeks. I am pleased also with the fact that the students are settled at both schools and I must commend the principals and the management teams at both schools for the work that they have done in getting the students back to school.”

At the Elliott Belgrave Primary, principal Esther Wilkinson said when she was first assigned to the school in September last year, the roof was off.

This was one of hurdles which needed to be crossed ahead of the resumption of face-to-face classes at the Boscobelle facility.

“It was a joy to have the officials so they see our plant, the work that was done. It was an excellent job. The space feels different and they got the opportunity to see the teachers and students at work and I am happy that they came,” said Wilkinson. (KS)