00:00It's the first of its kind in TNT. The China TNT Friendship Classroom is a space where
00:07students can learn and grow, making use of the resources donated by the Chinese Embassy.
00:14Today we would have received 22 laptop devices and we would have finally opened the China
00:22Trinidad Friendship Room. And we have had quite a good success in computer studies.
00:30So this year alone, at CSEC level, we would have had 88% of the IT students passing. So
00:36this certainly adds to our resources, which is unlimited. So we are especially grateful.
00:43With students also performing well in areas like electronic document preparation and management,
00:50the student body is looking forward to making use of the devices.
00:53Since we have a large number of subjects that uses the computers, this would benefit the
00:59school a lot. We have IT, EDPM, open administration, digital media, those are some of the subjects.
01:07And with these computers, we will be able to reach more students when it comes to the
01:15labs and actually be able to use the computers as freely as we can.
01:20Sawa North Secondary School also plans to introduce Mandarin into the co-curricular
01:25line-up, a move which the Chinese Embassy strongly supports.
01:30The Embassy is open to provide assistance to the schools that are interested in teaching
01:40Mandarin, Chinese language, Chinese culture to the students. So the Embassy will do its
01:47utmost to be of help.
01:51The school was recently designated Most Improved Secondary School by the Ministry of Education
01:57after grades drastically improved while cases of indiscipline plummeted.
02:02What they have accounted that improvement for would be the fact that we have a restorative
02:09practice approach which has treated issues of discipline, indiscipline. Students would
02:16have learned skills like conflict resolution, treating with issues in a way that is restorative
02:24at the end of the day.
02:25In 70% of the subjects, we got a 50% and upwards pass rate. That is in CSEC subjects. In CAPE,
02:33performing arts, we got all ones and a number of other areas we did extremely well.
02:42The Chinese Embassy plans to partner with more schools in the future.
02:46Renessa Cutting, TV6 News.
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