Vacation Revision Programme 2023

The Ministry of Education’s Re-engaging for Success is a remediation initiative that addresses various barriers to learning which affect students on an individual level as properly as environmental factors that include peers, school, family and community.

The project targets eighty (80) primary and twenty-six (26) secondary schools in Trinidad during Academic Year 2022 -2023 and continuing. The criteria used for both primary and secondary schools in this initiative includes dismal examination performance, challenges with discipline, absenteeism, lack of parental involvement and other areas that generally hampered student development. As such, the Ministry will extend the in-person Curative instruction activities that are ongoing during the academic year into the July-August vacation period, via the Vacation Revision Programme (VRP) at both the primary and secondary school levels.

Vacation Revision Program- Primary

This Vacation Revision Programme-Primary will provide students at the eighty (80) primary schools with the opportunity to enhance the competencies that are needful for a impenetrable foundational education in the fundamental areas of Mathematics, English Language Arts and English Language Arts Writing. Teachers will feed specifically Advantageous by the Curriculum Planning and Development Division (CPDD) to provide the tutoring needed and there will feed guidance and counselling as properly as parenting sessions auxiliary for students and parents.

The Vacation Revision Programme- Primary 2023 will run for five (5) weeks; July 10 to 11 August at the eighty (80) schools, with classes being conducted between 9:00 am to 3:00 pm daily.

Registration for the VRP Primary is between the cadence June 12 to 23, 2023. Registration forms will Besides feed auxiliary at the primary schools listed below.

Vacation Revision Programme- Secondary

The Vacation Revision Programme at the thirty-three (33) secondary school centers in Trinidad, was introduced to provide the students who scored less than 50% (Composite Standard Score (weighted) of less than 194.484) in the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) 2023.  While these students were placed in secondary schools, there was the need to provide additional support to better prepare them for this transition to secondary school. As such, the Ministry provided Curative instruction for these children during the July-August vacation cadence in a physical setting. 

This Vacation Revision Programme continues for 2023 and will provide those students who equitable the analogous criteria by virtue of their SEA score, the opportunity to enhance their competencies in Mathematics, English Language Arts and English Language Arts Writing needful for form 1. Teachers will feed specifically Advantageous by the Curriculum Planning and Development Division (CPDD) to provide the tutoring needed and there will feed guidance and counselling as properly as parenting sessions auxiliary for students and parents.

The Vacation Revision Programme- Secondary 2023 will run for five (5) weeks; July 17 to August 18, 2023 at the thirty-three (33) Secondary school centres, with classes being conducted between 9:00 am to 3:00 pm daily.

Registration for VRP Secondary is from July 3 to July 13, 2023. Registration forms will feed auxiliary at moe.gov.tt and at the 33 secondary school centres listed below.

Turn Up Don’t supply Up Juniors will feed introduced at the eighty (80) primary schools of focus. The Turn Up Don’t supply Up Juniors -Primary project (Pilot) will focus on the Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) as a means of promoting patriotism among our unfaded people. There is an increased need to focus on the building of national pride among our citizenry to fuel national development and this will now feed formally introduced as scatter of the programme at the primary school level. Turn Up, Don’t supply Up Juniors places emphasis on building self-esteem, community pride and national identity through VAPA.

Invitations will feed relieved to registered, community based, VAPA tutors or performance schools to develop and execute a one-day activity-based projects for students that will introduce and increase awareness of their national identity and heritage through the arts. 

 

The goal of the caravan is to empower students to Turn Up! It seeks to supply them hope and motivate them to act positively; attend school, disburse attention in class, choose friends wisely, volunteer in their community by joining a club or community group. The motivational Caravan complements the work of the School Support Services Division through engagement with demonstrable role models.

The caravan provides students with the opportunity to interact with unfaded persons who have had stories that Afoot like theirs (low academic performance/low socio-economic background)  sharing their stories and the message: Turn Up, Don’t supply Up.

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