Ministries Partner to Shape Youth

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Thursday, 07 February 2013 02:29

By press release

Antigua St. John's - The Ministry of Social Transformation continues to partner in various efforts at the community level to shape the priorities of the nation’s youth.

On Tuesday, Parliamentary Secretary Senator Malaka Parker joined representatives from civic groups and other organisations at the Green Bay Primary School to celebrate National Reading Day.

Acting Principal Genevieve Gomes said National Reading Day was part of Education Week activities which encourage reading throughout schools in Antigua & Barbuda.

She explained that people of influence were invited to the school to read to students.

Other activities involved “Drop everything and read” games, older students reading to the younger ones, and visitors reading stories to the studies.

“The drop everything and read game was exciting and encouraging,” Gomes said. “The bell would go and teachers and student would stop what they were doing immediately and begin to read.”

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Meanwhile, Senator Parker, who focussed on reading among third and fourth graders, said “this literacy event is critical and should be sustained, expanded, and designed to help students from Pre-K through to grade six\develop the literacy foundation they need to become lifelong learners.”

Senator Parker said the children were so in tune and interested that she suggested schools should hold a reading day every month. “The usefulness in bringing parents, community, and state actors and the business and NGO officials into the school plant to interact with the students is truly immeasurable and the children welcome it,” she said.

The senator expressed her immense pride and sense of duty in returning to her alma mater to participate in such a worthy endeavour.

Representatives spanning the media, parliamentary officials, nonprofit groups, and parents participated in a variety of activities on National Reading Day.

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