The 10th annual District Final for the National Reading Contest was held today in Belmopan. Correspondent Fem Cruz reports.
FEM CRUZ
Today the Cayo association of Primary school Principals along with the Belmopan National Library Service held their 10th annual district finals for the National Story Reading Contest at the George Price Center for Peace and Development in Belmopan. We had participants from several different primary schools in the Cayo district. The coordinator Terresita Guerrera spoke to Love News.
TERRESITA GUERRERA
“We the Belize National Library Service work in conjunction with the Cayo Association of Principals of Primary School to make this happen. We are the ones who provide the stories for the children we find the stories for them from different levels. Standard 2, 3 and 4 who participated in this reading contest. We first vote through the school eliminations and then they come to the finals. It’s basically to encourage children to read. You know a lot of children right now are having problems with reading. And then having problems at school so what we do the CAPS had brought out this initiative to encourage children to read and be more successful in school and the event today was very successful. All of the seven zones that we have participated and had my Judas Swasey from Christian Academy who came in first very very good reader and he is from the little division the standard 3. So we congratulate him also and his success in this event.”
Viviane Tol executive officer for COP spoke to Love News about the role they play to make today a huge success.
TERRESITA GUERRERA
“Cayo Association of Principals of Primary School was founded back in 1993 with its own purpose of seeing the Cayo district primary school. And one of the main initiative we had was 10 years ago back in 2003 when we were noticing that the children in the rally have a tendency of not liking reading, not wanting to read, they glue themselves to the television. They look at more visual things rather that reading the newspaper, journals or reading books and such. So we thought that a reading contest would be a very good thing to do to encourage them to read more. So since then we have been hosting the district reading contest in partnership with the George Price Center for peace and development and the Belize National Library Service. The success that we had the seven zones of the Cayo district we have all children participating all schools participating in the different zones of the Cayo district which includes about 60 schools. The reading contest takes the form of school elimination first in the zones and then they go to the zones elimination and then from their district finals eventually.”
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