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YOUNG men aged 17 to 19 who have been through grades nine and ten are going back to learn reading skills at a remote school in the heart of the Ramu Agri-Industries estatate in the Madang Province.
The principal of Sankiang Accelerated Christian School Ben Asang said these students have been through the normal government school system doing the Outcome Based Education curriculum but repeatedly failed and eventually gave up.
They then enrolled at his school in an attempt to continue their education.
Mr Asang said these students are enrolled in the school’s “Learning to Read Program” which is teaching them to read.
He said as a result they were showing improvements in their learning.
Sankiang Accelerated Christian School has 178 students and operating out of bush material classroom.
Students are enrolled in elementary and grades one to seven.
But it also has three students upgrading their grade nine and two upgrading their grade 10 studies.
Mr Asang said no students from the area has gone past grade 10 to higher education institutions and the little Sankiang school is trying to achieve that result in the coming years.
The principal of Sankiang Accelerated Christian School Ben Asang said these students have been through the normal government school system doing the Outcome Based Education curriculum but repeatedly failed and eventually gave up.
They then enrolled at his school in an attempt to continue their education.
Mr Asang said these students are enrolled in the school’s “Learning to Read Program” which is teaching them to read.
He said as a result they were showing improvements in their learning.
Sankiang Accelerated Christian School has 178 students and operating out of bush material classroom.
Students are enrolled in elementary and grades one to seven.
But it also has three students upgrading their grade nine and two upgrading their grade 10 studies.
Mr Asang said no students from the area has gone past grade 10 to higher education institutions and the little Sankiang school is trying to achieve that result in the coming years.
Mr Asang said reading skills at the school improved greatly soon after the Ramu Community Resource Centre located in the Ramu Agri Industry Estate established a small mobile library at the school for his students.
He said students now take great interest in reading as they have seen the result of reading in their school work.
Sharon van Boven the lady behind the mobile library concept said an increasing number of primary schools in the Ramu Valley now benefit from the mobile library service.
On Independence Day, the Ramu Community Resource Centre Association opened their proper home – a centre that also includes a library which will operate as the resource library sending out books to schools in the area.
Ten local schools have already received mobile library books with another four planned to receive the books in the coming weeks.
Ms van Boven said the Sankiang school parents were pro-active and working hard to help their children get a good education.
The resource centre is the product of co-operation between the Seventh Day Adventist Church of Ramu in partnership with the Manjimup SDA Church of Western Australia and supported by Ramu Agri Industries Limited which supplied the building and Soroptimist International Ramu Chapter in PNG and Riverside in Western Australia.
Rotary International in Western Australia and many other groups in the state also assisted with various donations which included a container of books.
The resource centre was officially opened by the General Manager of Ramu Agri Industries Limited Jamie Graham. (Post Courier)
He said students now take great interest in reading as they have seen the result of reading in their school work.
Sharon van Boven the lady behind the mobile library concept said an increasing number of primary schools in the Ramu Valley now benefit from the mobile library service.
On Independence Day, the Ramu Community Resource Centre Association opened their proper home – a centre that also includes a library which will operate as the resource library sending out books to schools in the area.
Ten local schools have already received mobile library books with another four planned to receive the books in the coming weeks.
Ms van Boven said the Sankiang school parents were pro-active and working hard to help their children get a good education.
The resource centre is the product of co-operation between the Seventh Day Adventist Church of Ramu in partnership with the Manjimup SDA Church of Western Australia and supported by Ramu Agri Industries Limited which supplied the building and Soroptimist International Ramu Chapter in PNG and Riverside in Western Australia.
Rotary International in Western Australia and many other groups in the state also assisted with various donations which included a container of books.
The resource centre was officially opened by the General Manager of Ramu Agri Industries Limited Jamie Graham. (Post Courier)
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