PRESS RELEASE – “INDIVIDUAL Student Conferencing” is a school-based activity whereby students are given the opportunity to sit in a formal (or non formal) forum with their teachers, to mutually address their academic performances, concerns, general scholastic abilities and goals. Ideally, the aim is to assist students in maximizing strategies to improve their grades, reinforce positive studying habits, discuss challenges and examine individual goals.
In a similar exercise this year, the Windjammer Landing’s Department of People & Culture, (HR team) headed by Dorcas Auguste, engaged in “individual student conferencing” with the children of staff who are currently part of the Resort’s Scholarship Programme.
The event was held on Tuesday, August 14, 2018 in the Resort’s Royal Palm Conference Room, between the hours of 8am and 12pm.
Mrs.Auguste and her HR team, Kacher Jn. Baptiste and Cindy Charlemagne, aborted the traditional style of officially handing over the scholarship cheques to staff and their children. Instead, they capitalized on the opportunity to encourage recipients to work hard at maintaining their grades in order to keep the scholarship every year.
Additionally and fundamentally, the team thought it necessary to help determine what other methods of support they could provide to the students in order to facilitate their secondary school journey. The scholarship cheques were handed over to each recipient at the end of their individual discussions.
For the first time this ever, existing scholarship holders who were not able to attain the average pass mark required by the Resort, were removed from the scholarship programme.
However, in a communique, the HR team, indicated to the children that they would each be given another opportunity to redeem themselves during the next academic year, 2019. In the true sense, scholarships are rewarded for excellence.
These were the sentiments conveyed to participants and their parents, during the one-on-one scholarship holders conferencing exercise.
All new secondary school entrants received a scholarship, however, keeping it is dependent on their academic commitment. This will be reflected in their end of term grades for the year.
This year’s nineteen recipients, when added to the existing twenty-three, brings the total number of scholarship recipients to forty-four. (Windjammer Landing)