Grades 4-6 Teachers from the six Government Primary Schools in Anguilla are attending a week-long Health and Family Life Education Workshop at the Teachers’ Resource Centre.
It is a follow-up to a previous workshop held in December last year. One of the facilitators is Ms. Andrea Baptiste, a trained Life Skills Coach and Educator from Barbados. She has worked in all the major sectors of education and is presently a Senior Teacher at the Eversely Secondary School in Barbados.
The other facilitator is Ms. Sandra Berry of Jamaica. A Trained Teacher, she specialises in Health and Family Life Education. She has held similar training workshops in the Turks and Caicos Islands, Dominica and Montserrat.
The workshop is being overseen by Ms. Sandra Fahie, Education Officer, Curriculum. “This is the second phase of the training in Health and Family Life Education. We did the first phase in December for Kindergarten and Grade Three Teachers, and now we are training Grade 4 to 6 Teachers,” Ms. Fahie explained.
“Basically, we are training teachers in terms of the methodology of teaching Health and Family Life Education, and we are using a life skills approach. The overall aim is to teach the children skills that they would be able to use throughout their lives. It involves teaching things like negotiation skills and conflict resolution skills.”
Both phases of the workshop have been sponsored by the United Nations’ International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF).
