Parliamentary Secretary, Senator Harcourt Husbands, and Education Minister, Ronald Jones, listen to Chief Project Manager of the Maria Holder Trust, Jane Armstrong, as she points out some of the features of the Gall Hill nursery.

Parliamentary Secretary, Senator Harcourt Husbands, and Education Minister, Ronald Jones, listen to Chief Project Manager of the Maria Holder Trust, Jane Armstrong, as she points out some of the features of the Gall Hill nursery.

The Oldbury facility is set to be open by January 2017.

The Oldbury facility is set to be open by January 2017.

One of the completed rooms of the Maria Holder Gall Hill nursery school.

One of the completed rooms of the Maria Holder Gall Hill nursery school.

Nursery School to pilot project

THE Maria Holder Nursery School in Gall Hill, which is set to open in September, will be the launchpad for a new curriculum aimed at encouraging young minds into an interest for science and mathematics.

Chief Education Officer, Karen Best, revealed that as the ministry was seeking to push science, technology, engineering and mathematics topics in schools, a pilot project will be launched featuring early childhood education in some of these areas.

“You are going to hear more about it, because the children will be exposed to mathematical and scientific concepts very early, and therefore, this school should be shining very brightly, very soon, but you will hear more about this later,” she disclosed.

Best was on tour with Education Minister, Ronald Jones, and several ministry officials yesterday, at  the Church Hill Road facility, with representatives of the Maria Holder Trust, the financial backers of the project.

The facility, which is almost ready for the start of the new school year, drew high praise from Jones, who said that it added much to the community.

Currently, 102 students have already registered, and with accommodation for 150, he anticipated that it would not be long before it reached its full complement.

“It has been a great collaboration between the Ministry of Education and the Maria Holder Trust,” said Chief Project Manager for the trust, Jane Armstrong, expressing her pleasure with the way the project was progressing.

Also on tour was Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth, Stephen Lashley, the MP for Christ Church West Central, the constituency where the educational establishment is located. He described it as an excellent, child-friendly facility, saying that it will benefit surrounding communities, and thanked the Maria Holder Trust for its ongoing work in the island. (JMB)

 

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