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Police encourage GSAT students

Published:Saturday | March 26, 2011 | 12:00 AM
Sergeants Dahlia Garrick (right) and Marian Francis (left) in uniform, in foreground, Inspector Mark Williams and Corporal Layota Redden join hands with a group of GSAT students at St Michael's Primary School, Kingston, yesterday, after giving them a pep talk before the test got under way. - Norman Grindley/Chief Photographer

Glenroy Sinclair, Assignment Coordinator

LESS THAN 30 minutes before they sat the final papers of the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) yesterday, the confidence of 17 students from St Michael's Primary School, central Kingston, was boosted. The students received a pep talk from a team of uniformed police personnel from the Motorised Patrol Division (MPD).

"Today, I want you to know that you are all winners. Just put all that you have been taught into practice and you will do well," stressed Sergeant Dahlia Joan Garrick, who greeted the students warmly.

Led by Inspector Mark Williams, the police party brought the students together in the spacious classroom, where they joined hands to exchange high fives, a gesture which lifted the spirits of the students.

According to Williams, the MPD recently adopted the school and is in the process of executing big plans to inject more life into the institution, which is situated on the border between the volatile communities of Rae Town and Southside.

The school's principal, Dave Allen, told a Gleaner news team that there were no glitches during the exam.