EDUCATOR ENCOURAGES REFLECTION, RESPECT AND RESILIENCE
BROWN’S TOWN, St Ann — July 19, 2024
Students graduating from Hillcove High Achievers Prep, Brown’s Town, St Ann, and going to high school have been encouraged to use a “survival kit” of three Rs as they make their next steps.
(Top Girl and Top student in the PEP for Hillcove Prep, Reginae Richards receives some of her awards from Grade 6 teacher Marlene Nevers)
(Guest Speaker Claudeth Haughton)
The ‘Three Rs Survival Kit’ is Reflection, Respect, and Resilience.
The idea of the kit and outlining of its components came from Claudeth Haughton, educator and guest speaker at the graduation ceremony for 10 boys and 11 girls, from Hillcove, on Sunday, July 14, 2024.
(Top Boy at Hillcove in the 2024 PEP examinations Jayce Campbell receives his award from Mr Sherwood)
She said they would need to understand that high school would be vastly different from the security and comfort they knew at prep school.
See also a full story on the graduation.21 GRADUATE FROM HILLCOVE HIGH ACHIEVERS PREP
As part of REFLECTION, she urged them not to forget their families, the school they were coming from and the things they had learned. Ms Haughton encouraged them that with this reflection they should not be diverted into antisocial behaviours with which they were unfamiliar.
RESPECT was one of the three items in the survival kit. Ms Haughton said they should respect themselves, God, their school, and their time and respect others. She said a lack of respect for others often led to the conflicts that they had read about or heard of in high schools.
Ms Haughton said RESILIENCE should also be in the survival Kit. Defining resilience as the ability to bounce back, Ms Haughton said tough times would come but they should dig deep and they would overcome.
Ms Haughton was introduced by Bathsheba Harris.
Master of Ceremonies was O’Brian Taylor.
Dr Beverly Bailey conducted devotion.
Two of the more popular items in the programme were ‘Don’t Take Drugs” by Cydiah Sutton and ‘I Love My Mother’ recited by Viviana Noteman.
Grade 6 teacher Marlene Nevers did the vote of thanks
WATCH AND LISTEN TO THE GRADUATES IN ONE OF THEIR PRESENTATIONS:
