Hard work critical to students’ success

Once you work hard, you will be the best that you can be.

This is the advice that the Principal of Hindsbury Primary School, Nola Cummings Lewis would like to send out to her students.

“You can be anything that you want to be as long as you put in the effort and that is the advice. This morning, we were dealing with optimism and I tried to show them that as long as they want to achieve and they put God in front, they would achieve.”

She said that when it comes to the Common Entrance Examination, they are doing really well and the school holds the sixth place position overall in terms of Government primary schools.

“... Right now we are sixth in the island above the national mean so our aim is just to try and be the best that we can be. Our theme speaks to excellence – ‘Excellence Sustained – It Is My Choice.’ That is our theme for the year.”

This year the national mean for English was 70.4 and Hindsbury Girls had 75.1 and the national mean for Mathematics was 55 and they had 54.24.

She said that this year she is hoping for the same successes and just as long as they have the cooperation with the parents, they would be able to attain this goal.

“I just wish that we would have a productive term, a productive year and we want to impress upon the parents that they continue to help their children and to work with us because if they work with the school, their child would improve and be the best that he/she can be. That is what we want for each child and for each child to improve the zeal academically so we are going to work on that.”

One of the things that she would like to see for the school however, is a new school hall where they can hold morning assemblies and other activities as they do not currently have one and this poses a hindrance especially on mornings when rains heavily just like it did that morning.

“Well it was raining and seeing that we don’t have a hall, we usually assemble just under there and some will spill all on to the outside. So it was a bit cramped because of the inclement weather, but it went smoothly.”

She said that they have put in requests, but with current economic climate the way that it is, it has not been possible to date, but they are hoping that it would be soon.

“We are always making requests that we can have a covered space for the area. So we have been promised that for a while now, but you know with the economic constraints, but we would hope that one of these days we can get a covered area where we can have these activities and you know, not having to be in a cramped space and so on.”

The school has 397 students, 22 teaching staff and eight ancillary staff.