Last week was celebrated as Special Education Needs (SEN)Week 2016 with a focus on “Building Families”. The programme was geared towards strengthening families with children with special needs, and therefore the schools’ representatives were required to organize specific events to help bring parents into their classrooms. The representatives of the Emotional and Behavioural Disorder Centre – located at Valley Primary School – as a means of keeping in line with our focus, engaged parents in an informative, exciting day working on the children’s already established tyre garden. A member of the Agricultural Department, along with Mr. Salir Abdur Raheem, gave the students a brief history of the Bok Choy also known as Pak Choi, a Chinese cabbage, donated by Tr. Vivien Vanterpool for the event. The day was spent engaging the parents and students in the measuring and mixing of manure into the soil, the tending and watering of peppers, egg plants and tomato crops already planted, as well as the Pak Choi they were planting. The grounds around the tyres were rid of litter and the children were educated on the importance of keeping the garden and their environment clean.
The students and teachers of The Valley Primary School Special Education Unit wish to acknowledge the commitment of the parents who took the time out to engage in this family oriented activity.
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