Bridge Foundation Newsletter Newsletter 2015 | Page 4

RFR Day Launch at Mucurapo Girls’ R. C
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Special Spot Light on
St. Monica’ s Prep- Holy Faith School Responses to RFR Tally Sheet
St. Monica ' s Prep( Holy Faith) School ]
108 children participated in Read for the Record Day
A goldfish story was read by 54 students in Senior infants
Manatee has a question was read by 54 students in Standard 0ne
Four Classrooms Participated
My whole school did not take part in Read for the Record Day Just 2 levels four classrooms. listening to the video / audio book on youtube in the library to Not Norman a Goldfish Story and visiting the aquarium to view a fish like Norman.
The teachers said they all loved it.
Highlights were:
a goldfish tour. Some gave stories about the time they saw a snake and what they
did. All realized that Norman was brave and calm and that ' s why the boy loved
Him
The Standard ones made bookmarks of Manatees.
Yes I am in for next year. Leslieann Seegobin
STUDENTS PHOTO OP WITH JETBLUE AND AIRPORT AUTHORITY OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO STAFF
NEWSLETTER 2015
RFR Day Launch at Mucurapo Girls’ R. C
Mucurapo Girls’ R. C. School launched Read for the Record Day with a warm welcome from Principal Annmarie Boisson who expressed her openness to various types of reading programs to meet the differential learning needs of her students.
Literacy Host for the event, Zo-Mari Tanker, Multimedia Producer, Actress and TV Presenter introduced all the local artists, authors and student dramatic cast and corporate supporters.
Mikhail Salcedo, pannist introduced the reading by playing the Mucurapo’ s school song and Under the Sea tune.
Nikki Crosby, a. k. a Aunty Nikki shared her love of pets and invited students to sound out familiar pet sounds. There was no surprise that the sound of a pig was the students’ favourite. Mucurapo Girls Listened attentively as Aunty Nikki read the
Jumpstart book Not
Norman: A Gold Fish Story by Kelly Bennett.
Danielle Delon colourfully read her book entitled, Ice Age Trinidad about the famous pitch of lake of Trinidad and Tobago. in Trinidad.
Stacey Alfonso-Mills introduced and read her book Manatee has a question followed by St.
Francois Girls’ High School who dramatized the story. St. Francois Girls drama teacher is Serran Clarke a. k. a Ma Fable who led the
dramatic group in the storydrama presentation.
Friendly Skies join Bridge Foundation on RFR 2015
Mucurapo Girls’ R. C. students enjoyed the motivational and inspirational sharing from the JetBlue team and the Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago team.
Paul Parawan, JetBlue General Manager and Sherry-Ann Doodnath, JetBlue Supervisor of Airport Operations shared their experiences of reading and distributed JetBlue’ s Soar with Reading books.( See top and middle right.)
Adrienne Ayers-Allen and Oswold Bruce, Airports Authority of Trinidad and Tobago representatives. Both shared their love for reading and offered students a school trip to the facility to understand the different aspects of the Aviation field.
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