By:
Regina Selman Moore
Having received the prestigious Olweus School of the Year 2015-2016 award for its efforts at bullying prevention, a turnaround for the Grantley Adams Memorial School has been signalled.
Principal of Grantley Adams Memorial School, Dennis Browne pointed out the above, following a “Celebrate Kindness: No Name-calling Day” initiative hosted at the school yesterday, by Supreme Counselling for Personal Development (SCPD). Under its Project Rescue initiative for at risk youth, SCPD currently runs the Olweus Bullying Prevention Programme in four schools and Certified Olweus Bullying Prevention Consultant/Trainer, Shawn Clarke, who is also CEO of Supreme Counselling for Personal Development (SCPD), presented the Award yesterday, having received backing from the Olweus Head Office in the United States and the blessings of the local Ministry of Education.
“This is one of the most exciting times in the life of Grantley Adams Memorial School, to be the only school in Barbados to have been able to win this prestigious award and the only school to have the discipline to be able to within the school, to have as minimal as possible, challenges with bullying,” Browne remarked on accepting the award.
He later told The Barbados Advocate, “Words can’t explain how I feel, because we are not looking back, but he in the past, there were negative comments being made of the school and to see that the school has risen from where it was before to where it is now and moving forward and steadily fighting (is an accomplishment). It will be the school of choice in maybe two or three years”.
Browne has meanwhile noted that it cannot be left up to the school alone to churn out students who are well disciplined, model students and as such, he has made a call for more personnel, across the public and private sector to step forward and assist the schools in whatever way they can, “to conquer what we are now seeing happening in society” with some of our at risk youth.
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