Barbados New Campaign to get Children involved in reading

Minister of Education, Ronald Jones, a former primary school teacher, with these two students at St Paul’s Primary. (Maurice Giles)

A new campaign to get children more involved in reading was yesterday launched at St Paul’s Primary School, with Minister of Education Minister Ronald Jones lauding it as “an example of thinking outside the box”.

The project, using a retrofitted bus as a virtual classroom, has as its theme and jingle, Bus-Ting Into Literacy.

Jones said: “This bus has the capacity to teach, to cause you to learn and it is the type of vehicle that I support – the bus which causes you to learn, to develop knowledge and intellect and supplies you with the right attitude, the right levels of behaviours where decorum is part and parcel of what you do.”

The reading bus is the brainchild of teacher Andrea Cheltenham, who along with management and staff of the school, took the concept from Wesley Hall School’s Library Bus and adapted it with the assistance of Ionics Freshwater Ltd.

Principal Sandra Small-Thompson called on parents to assist with their children’s reading. (BGIS)