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Positive Jamaica Foundation gives 30 tablets to Salt Spring Primary

Published:Saturday | May 22, 2021 | 12:09 AMChristopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer
Students from the Salt Spring Primary School in St James show tablets donated to them courtesy of Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ Positive Jamaica Foundation. The presentation was made yesterday to the students.
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Students from the Salt Spring Primary School in St James show tablets donated to them courtesy of Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ Positive Jamaica Foundation. The presentation was made yesterday to the students.

WESTERN BUREAU:

Thirty students at the Salt Spring Primary School in St James became happy recipients of their own tablets yesterday, courtesy of Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ Positive Jamaica Foundation.

In addition to the tablets presented to the students, the school also received a new laser printer to assist students with the printing of their assignments and other educational material.

In a brief address during the ceremony, Holness, who is president of the Positive Jamaica Foundation, said the latest presentation of tablets brings to approximately 110 the number of students at the school, who now have access to online learning, out of the total student population of 176.

“This small school has 176 students, and they would have previously gotten 40 tablets through the Ministry of Education’s PATH modality, plus the principal estimates that about 30 students would have already had their own devices, but usually those are shared devices. Also, through your own initiatives, you would have gotten donations of 10 tablets,” Holness told stakeholders at the school.

Yesterday’s donation was part of the Government’s overall plan to equip more than 500,000 students in Jamaica’s education system with tablets in support of the thrust towards online learning. So far, 124,000 tablets have been provided to students islandwide, including those supplied through the Ministry of Education’s One Tablet per Child Programme, which was launched last October.

Norma Brydson, the principal at Salt Spring Primary School, expressed gratitude on behalf of her students for the new tablets donated by the Positive Jamaica Foundation.

“I speak for the Ministry of Education Region Four, my board of governors, my loyal academic staff and most of all my ‘babies’ (students), as today is the day when you are in the right place at the right time. Your being here says a lot of things to us, and your gift to them is the best gift, and we will cherish this moment,” Brydson told Holness.