The Alleyne School is reaping rewards in the efforts to raise its academic performance.
In keeping with its vision of having more students gaining five Caribbean Secondary Examination Certificates and Caribbean Vocational Qualifications, the principal said that last year there was a 25 per cent increase in students taking these subjects.
On Thursday, principal Julia Beckles revealed some of the school’s results over the previous school year as she reported on activities at the school over the last academic year.
These ranged from academic and curricular endeavours to the start of a building for fifth formers and the launch of a sixth form. She also spoke of the honesty displayed by some students, two of whom – Sarai Boyce and Tameka Walcott – received the Principal’s Good Deed Award for honest endeavour. The duo had returned hundreds of dollars they found in the school’s car park which had been dropped by a distributor.
Katiana Worrell and Javone Hope-Greene were awarded the Principal’s Honour Roll for Outstanding Achievement and the Cyril Thompson Memorial Prize for Best CXC Results, respectively.
The featured speaker was chief executive officer of the J & T Bank and Trust, Kenrick Cummins, who spoke to them about looking to the future.
“You have to decide, current students, what does it mean to you that Alleyne is one of the oldest secondary schools on the island? What does it mean to you that in 1947 your school became the first to admit girls?
“What does it mean that greatness has walked these corridors? What will you do with that knowledge? I put it to you that you must summon the power of your past to propel your purpose,” he added. (AD)