FARM PRIMARY & JUNIOR HIGH

Issue # 2

SPECIAL 40TH ANNIVERSARY NEWSLETTER

November 14, 2016

Schools motto: Every child is a gift from God.

CELEBRATING FARM PRIMARY & JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 40TH YEAR OF EXISTENCE

Cementing the Past Embracing the Future.

As we continue to improve the quality of the Farm Primary and Junior High School both academically, socially and physically we seize the moment to
take this opportunity in giving you a quick glance into the past as we journey towards the future. Enjoy!!!

This is the schools first computer room now a classroom.

This is the schools newest Computer

Technology Center funded by the Universal
Service Fund. It was opened February 25,
2015 by the Honourable Phillip Paulwell,
Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and
Mining.

In the past our Spanish teachers were Jamaicans who studied Spanish as a second language.

Now we are proud to introduce our newest Spanish

teacher, Senor Rodriquez. He is a Cuban who is on
a Cuban teacher programme for three (3) years at
the Farm Primary & Junior High School.

Senor Rodriquez

Below are some other accomplishments of this noble institution:

Previous basic school

The teachers cottage was retrofitted for a basic school

and it was officially opened to the students on
September 5, 2016.

Wordless Walls

Walls with Educational Information (2016 project)

Newly built Security Post (2016)

Newly built Tuck Shop (2015)

The music room was our gift from the First Global Bank, The Spanish Jamaica Foundation and the Judson University.

NEWS IN REVIEW

Green Pond gets computer lab

BY ACEION CUNNINGHAM Observer West writer GREEN POND, St James
Thursday, March 05, 2015

Shanoya Spence, head girl of Farm Primary and Junior High School (seated) has the attention of (from left) Member
of Parliament for Central St James Lloyd B Smith; Rev Lorane Chisholm (partially hidden) chairman, Farm Primary and Junior High School; Judith Wallace, president Green Pond
CDC; Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Phillip Paulwell; and councillor Sylvan Reid. (PHOTO: ACEION CUNNINGHAM)
MINISTER of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Phillip Paulwell last week handed over a $4.7 million state-of-the-art computer and resource laboratory to the Green Pond
Primary and Junior High School located in the inner-city community of Green Pond in St James. The new facility is a project of the Universal Service Fund, controlled by the
Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining. Paulwell said that the facility is one of over 200 such centres across the island, with St James accounting for the second
largest share, behind Kingston.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENT DONATION TOWARDS SCHOOLS MUSIC IN SCHOOL PROGRAMME

First Global on the front line
Published: | November 20, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Contributed Photo Courtney Wilson (back row, third from left), First Global Bank's assistant vice president, Western Region, donates musical instruments for the 'Music, PerfectPitch for a Sound Education Programme' to Victor Newsome, principal of Farm Primary and Junior High School and Infant Department. They are joined by other school officials
and grade three students. The school officials include (left-right), vice principal Pauline Reid; Patricia Haughton, education officer; Claudine Spence and Gillian Brown-Williams,
teachers.

Farm Primary and Junior High School gets library upgrade

Published: Saturday | July 26, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Barrington Flemming, Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Victor Newsome, principal of the Farm Primary and Junior High School, says the upgrading of the school's library, by the Texas-based Teaching with
Jamaica Group, will serve to boost the institution's literacy programme.
Newsome was speaking at the Library Dedication and Celebration ceremony, held at the school recently, under the theme: 'Reading is the Key to Success'.
"I see this as an opportunity to move the school forward as it relates to literacy and accessing information. Our students in this community have limited access to resources and
having a library will give them a greater opportunity to obtain information that they need to learn," said Newsome.
He said the new initiative is aimed at creating a successful school in the near future and having such a well-equipped library will give the administration and staff an opportunity to
achieve that objective earlier than projected.
GSAT performance
"Our GSAT performance has improved by six per cent over last year. Majority of the students who sat the test got their school of choice or second choice. Now, with added
resources and the calibre of students that we have, we are looking for a 10 per cent increase for the next academic year," Newsome added.
Patti Gilbert, team leader of the Teaching with Jamaica Group, said they were motivated to assist with upgrading the library due to Newsome's passion for education and the fact
that reading was vital to the students' success at the school.
"God blessed us with two librarians, and they requested dimensions for the library and based on the expertise of the group's librarians we were told that we would need 3,000
books. We however collected more than 6,000 books and here we are with this wonderful library," said Gilbert.
Pastor David Falconer of Jamaica Link Ministries, which facilitated the partnership between Teaching with Jamaica and the Farm Primary and Junior High School, said he was
happy that the change makers were able to have a positive impact on the school.

IN CLOSING WE PRESENT TO YOU

FARM PRIMARY & JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
HONOR ROLL STUDENTS OCTOBER 2016

Chairman: Mr. Orville Grey

Principal: Mr. Victor Newsome

Vice- Principal: Miss Joan Haye

Farm Primary and Junior High School, Green Pond District, P.O. Box 1473, Montego Bay #1, St. James