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Good things are happening at San Juan North Secondary! The school was recently designated 'Most Improved Secondary School' by the Ministry of Education, and today, commissioned the first China, Trinidad and Tobago Friendship classroom, courtesy the Chinese Embassy. There are also plans to start teaching Mandarin - an initiative for which the Chinese Embassy is pledging support. Rynessa Cutting has the details.
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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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