Read Across Jamaica 2024

CHASE Fund
08 May, 2024

CHASE Fund Director, Nicole McLaren Campbell, reads to students at the Allman Town Infant School in Kingston for Read Across Jamaica Day. Read Across Jamaica Day is an initiative that is observed islandwide that aims to encourage students to develop a healthy habit for reading. CHASE staff also visited the St. Michael’s Infant School, Tower Street Kingston to read to attentive and delighted students.

The CHASE Fund places strategic emphasis on Early Childhood Education. The Fund has built, upgraded and equipped early childhood institutions and resource centres; supported the development of early childhood materials to enhance the cognitive development of children; provided scholarships for specialist training in Early Childhood Education; and expanded the use of radio and televisions programmes to enrich and support the curriculum.

New Building for New Forest Infant School

chase_admin
28 Dec, 2018

 

The New Forest Infant School was established in 1948 and has been catering to students from Alligator Pond, Comma Pen, New Forest and surrounding communities.

 

The New Forest Infant School located in New Forest Manchester, has been transformed into a model school with the addition of a four-classroom block, staff room, kitchen and sick bay and the renovation of the existing structure. CHASE provided a grant of $43M.  The Minister of Education, Sen. the Hon. Ruel Reid, participated in the opening on November 29, 2018.  Billy Heaven, CHASE CEO, in his address to an audience made up of parents, teachers and members of the New Forest and other communities, noted that very high proportion of learning takes place from birth to age six.   Students, he said, “are at a crucial stage of life in terms of their physical, intellectual, emotional, social and creative development and must be provided with positive learning experiences.”