Over three thousand three hundred students have registered for the Ministry of Education’s Vacation Revision Programme, which commenced Monday in eighty primary schools across Trinidad.
The VRP Primary runs from July 10th, 2023 to August 11th, 2023, and caters for students entering Standards Four and Five in September 2023.
It features classes in Mathematics, English Language Arts and English Language Arts Writing, along with weekly sessions in Dance, Drama and Music.
Over 90% of the tutors selected for the VRP Primary are a part of the cohort of over six hundred and 50 teachers trained in remedial teaching of Reading, Writing, and Mathematics by the University of Trinidad and Tobago during this Academic Year 2022/23.
Education Minister, Dr. Nyan Gadsby-Dolly, has said, “In 2022, the VRP Secondary was launched, catering for students entering Form One .
In 2023, the VRP Primary has been added to the MOE’s offerings, at 80 Primary Schools under the Ministry’s Remedial Education Programme.
This is yet another measure to provide additional academic and psychosocial support to our students and parents who need it most.
The MOE’s After-School Tuition Programme operated at these Primary schools throughout Academic Year 2022/23, and continuity is now offered by the VRP Primary, providing ample opportunities for our students to be positively engaged, and for the mitigation of learning loss, which is still affecting our students, some disproportionately, based on their COVID-19 experience.”