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Sheffield All-Age wins quiz championship

Published:Saturday | December 7, 2013 | 12:00 AM
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Members of the Sheffield All-Age School's Green Challenge Quiz team are all smiles after receiving the Rockhouse Hotel's Green Challenge Quiz championship trophy, following the finals of the competition, which were held last week Thursday at the Negril Branch Library. At front (from left) are Jolesa Hardie, Ashanti Sinclair, Shantal Ferrell, and captain Rayvon Laing. In the background are environmental manager at the Rockhouse Hotel, Ruel Rowe; grade-six teacher Vanessa Hall; and Rockhouse Hotel General Manager Charlotte Wallace. - Photo by Claudia Gardner
Members of the St Paul's Primary School Green Challenge Quiz team pay keen attention during the Rockhouse Hotel's Green Challenge Quiz Competition at the Negril Branch Library in Westmoreland last week Thursday. From left are Patrice Spencer, Dane Elga, Gabbriel McIntosh and Beyonce Ramsay. St Paul's placed second in the competition, behind Sheffield All-Age School. - Photo by Claudia Gardner
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Claudia Gardner, Assignment Coordinator

WESTERN BUREAU:

Sheffield All-age School copped the Rockhouse Hotel's Green Challenge Quiz championship after defeating St Paul's Primary School 8-3 in the final, which was held at the Negril Branch Library last week Thursday.

Five schools participated in the competition, which was being staged for the fifth consecutive year. The other schools were the Westmoreland-based Negril All-Age and Mt Airy Primary schools, and the Harding Hall Preparatory School in Green Island, Hanover. Each team consisted of four competitors between the ages of nine and 12.

In addition to the championship trophy, the Sheffield All-age School team also won a trip for six to the Kool Runnings Adventure Park and $10,000 towards their school fund. St Paul's Primary School, which had taken home the trophy back in 2010, also took home the second-place trophy and won a trip to Dolphin Cove in Lucea and a $4,000 cash prize.

NEGRIL PLACES THIRD

Three-time winners Negril All-Age School took home the third-place trophy and also won dinners for six at the Pushcart Restaurant in Negril.

"The Green Challenge Quiz was started in 2009 when Rockhouse Hotel pursued achieving Green Globe certification," general manager of the Rockhouse Hotel, Charlotte Wallace, told Western Focus.

"One of the requirements was that we needed to promote education in the area of environmental awareness. We decided that as we already had a focus on children - through the Rockhouse Foundation - to gear our environmental education to the children, and this is where we formed the Green Challenge Quiz," Wallace said.

She added: "Environmental aware-ness is extremely important to Rockhouse. We are Green Globe-certified. Each year, we achieve Green Globe recertification by ensuring that we minimise the use of scarce resources and minimising waste. It is a very important part of the Rockhouse commitment. We have a commitment to our guests, of course, to our staff, to the community, and to the environment."

The associate sponsors of the competition were the Negril Environment and Education Trust, the Kool Runnings Adventure Park, Dolphin Cove, Sound Illusions, Dennis Eckart, and the Jamaica Library Service.