For students, summer camps are normally associated with loads of fun as memories of the previous school year fade and the one to come seems far away.
However, the prefect body for the upcoming academic year at Buff Bay High School in Portland did not have a typical summer camp. While their schoolmates went out the gates into weeks of freedom from the classroom, they spent an extra two weeks at school.
Not that they were brushing up on their academics. And not that they seemed to mind.
"We've been talking about it for a while, having a summer camp for them," Buff Bay High's principal Nadine Molloy told The Sunday Gleaner. About 22 students were involved in the camp, a few of them potential prefects making the transition from third to fourth form. The others are going into fifth form.
"We recognise the lack of leadership training in our section of Portland. They have potential, but there is not a lot of opportunity in the country. We recognise the potential so many of our students have," Molloy said.
This is an excerpt from an article published in the Jamaica Gleaner on Sunday September 6, 2009. The entire article is available at the Jamaica Gleaner website.
However, the prefect body for the upcoming academic year at Buff Bay High School in Portland did not have a typical summer camp. While their schoolmates went out the gates into weeks of freedom from the classroom, they spent an extra two weeks at school.
Not that they were brushing up on their academics. And not that they seemed to mind.
"We've been talking about it for a while, having a summer camp for them," Buff Bay High's principal Nadine Molloy told The Sunday Gleaner. About 22 students were involved in the camp, a few of them potential prefects making the transition from third to fourth form. The others are going into fifth form.
"We recognise the lack of leadership training in our section of Portland. They have potential, but there is not a lot of opportunity in the country. We recognise the potential so many of our students have," Molloy said.
This is an excerpt from an article published in the Jamaica Gleaner on Sunday September 6, 2009. The entire article is available at the Jamaica Gleaner website.
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