WROC stages remedial summer school for teens

WITH the help of the National Commercial Bank, the Women's Resource and Outreach Centre (WROC) last week launched a late summer remedial programme for some 17 students from communities surrounding Beechwood, Lyndhurst, Greenwich Park and nearby inner-city areas.

Entitled, 'Learning is Fun', the programme - which will run until August 22 - is introducing boys and girls - aged 12 to 16 - to Mathematics and English in a fun way.

The students have been engaged in doing sports, mathematical puzzles, word games, quizzes, writing songs and learning origami. At the end of the two-week exercise they are expected to have completed six sessions each of Computing, English, Mathematics and Values and Attitudes.

Huntley Anderson, co-ordinator of the programme explains that the basics of English and Mathematics have been included in every activity. "It's an excellent approach because we are reinforcing the theme of 'Learning is Fun' in everything we do," he said.

This is an excerpt from an article published in the Jamaica Observer on Monday, August 18, 2008. You can read the entire article at the Jamaica Observer website.