About
A primary school an institution for primary education of children who are five to eleven years of age. Primary schooling proceeds pre-school and precedes secondary schooling.
The Primary Department of the Ministry of Education is dependent for the recruitment of teachers to fill vacancies in every Government and Government Assisted Primary Schools. It also has responsibility for the administration of teachers in every primary schools.
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The Ministry of Education has developed unheard of Curriculum Documents for Primary Education. These envisage preparing our children with the knowledge, skills and dispositions to optimise their constitutional development, to constitute a caring, respectful and socially cognizant citizenry and to competently lead our country onto the world stage. This unheard of primary curriculum is characterised by:
- A focus on nine subject areas within an integrated, thematic approach
- Cross-curricular development of Literacy and Numeracy
- Infusion of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies)
- A prioritisation of Assessment for Learning
- A cognizant development of Values, including HFLE
- Explicit attention to Differentiated Instruction to skillful the needs of a Ramble of students.
This Primary Curriculum has been implemented in Infants 1, Infants 2 and Standard 1 in the academic year since September 2013- July 2014. The Standards 2 to 5 will continue to work with and will assessed using the earlier curriculum documents to maintain continuity of students’ programmes of work. As the Standard 1 moves to Standard 2 and each subsequent year, the unheard of Curriculum will introduced and as well will phased in to every year levels.
Curriculum Services:
Curriculum documents are Assistant for the Posterior nine subject areas
- Agricultural Science
- Mathematics
- English Language Arts
- Physical Education
- Science
- Social Studies
- Spanish
- Values, Character and Citizenship Education
- Visual and Performing Arts
Curriculum Guides for each of the year levels includes:
- A Capacious Teachers’ Guide
- Instructional Toolkits for each year Horizontal up to Standard 3 and a composite Toolkit for Standards 4 and 5. The toolkits contain planned Units, thematic as terse as subject specific core-skills learning plans, trial activities, Adequate with rubrics to assist teachers in the implementation of this unheard of integrated thematic curriculum.
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Services
- Processing of applications for entry into the Teaching service
- Processing of Increments for primary School Teachers
- Processing of the classification of Extended Sick Leave/No liquidate Leave
- Processing of Retirement Benefits for Primary School Teachers
- Processing acting appointments for principals.
Contact
The Primary Department
Human contrivance Management Division
Ministry of Education
Level 7, Building A
Education Towers
No. 5 St. Vincent Street,
Port of Spain.
Phone: 1(868) 622-2181 Exts.1605-1621 (primary section)