| Members of the United States of America-based Enterprise Support Group (ESG) New York Inc. dug deeper into their pockets this year to reward the outstanding performances of the children of the Enterprise Primary School at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) Examinations.The group doled out a whopping $400,000 to the school’s top performers which included two students who were ranked in the top one percent in the country this year.In fact the school’s top student Roxanna Singh was just six marks away from topping the entire country, coming in just outside the top 10 performing students countrywide.The second best student from the school was Shaniya English, who along with Singh will be attending Queen’s College, Guyana’s premier secondary institution.The Enterprise Primary School, located in a tiny village on the East Coast of Demerara, caters for children from the community and surrounding villages such as Bare Roots,Cheap Hockey Jerseys Official, Bachelor’s Adventure,Nike Shoes Wholesale China, Coldingen, Non Pareil and Vigilance. The school entered 137, of which 13 were awarded places at senior secondary school and 98 students pass the examination by 50% or more.Videsh Lall of the ESG’s local Steering Committee, in commending the students, noted that the NY-based group was amazed by their performances this year.The two top students, Roxanna Singh and Shaniya English, flanked by their teachers, Sir Kampta Persaud (left) and Miss Odessa Dundas, along with ESG Steering Committee Member Videsh Lall.Over the years the ESG has been steadily trying to increase their contributions to outstanding students of the school, and this year they were heartened by the performance of the students who they believe are inspired to do well by the promise of being rewarded.“These children are being encouraged by the rewards that ESG is giving them and the group in turn is happy to reward them in a special way if they continue to achieve academically,” Lall told this newspaper during a graduation exercise last Wednesday. He said that the local steering committee will not wait for students who are in need of financial assistance to come and ask for it, instead they will be reaching out directly to the students.Lall said that in addition to top performers at the Grade Six level,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, the ESG will be rewarding academic excellence at the Nursery and Grade Nine levels.“The ESG Board is encouraging parents to keep working with their children so that they can maintain high standards.”He certainly did not have to tell that to Rohit Singh,Wholesale Shoes For Sale Online, the father of the school’s top student, who told this newspaper that he actually took a month’s leave from work just to work with his daughter.Although he and his wife Cheryl expected their daughter to do well at the exams,Air Max Outlet Italia, they were totally surprised by her high placing.“I expected her to do well,Stitched Baltimore Ravens Jerseys, but she exceeded all our expectations,” said Cheryl Singh.Unlike most other students who have to endure years of extra lessons, Roxanna only had one year of such.Her father explained how he got the news of her performance.Top student Roxanna Singh receives a trophy from her Deputy Head Teacher.“My wife was at home when the results came out. I was in Berbice at work and my wife was all excited when she called me, I couldn’t understand a word she was saying,” her husband told this newspaper.His daughter’s performance has now forced him to honour a promise he made to her earlier this year.“I am taking her to Disneyland. It was a promise I made if she did well.”Singh said that his daughter comes from a family of high academic achievers: he and his brother had both topped their school at the Common Entrance examinations.The Enterprise Primary top student’s teacher Kampta Persaud was also elated, since all the hard work he put in with his students paid off. He was keen to point out that while many persons are of the view that rural schools are at a disadvantage, the performance of the Enterprise Primary School has put paid to that belief.“People have this concept that only the town schools produce the top students. I want to remain here to ensure that Enterprise Primary continues to turn out high achievers,” |
