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AQuA Foundation comes to the rescue of 12 promising students of Rollington Town Primary
TWELVE STUDENTS of the east Kingston-based Rollington Town Primary School are in a better position to prepare for their upcoming Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) as they are now benefiting from online exam preparation assistance at no cost to them.
The cost associated with gaining access to the online portal, operated by Edufocal, was donated by overseas-based AQuA Foundation.
The students were chosen based on an assessment by school principal Dr Margaret Bailey that they had great potential to do extremely well in next year’s placement test but lacked sufficient resources to get the extra help they needed.
The foundation responded by paying the fees on the selected students’ behalf.
AQuA Foundation was started in the United States in 2006 by Wolmerian Nigel Pennycooke, who is its executive director.
The foundation began its association with Rollington Town Primary when it awarded scholarships to three of its students who were successful in this year’s sitting of the GSAT. The scholarships covered all their school and ancillary fees as they entered high school.
Apart from Rollington Town, other primary and high school students have benefited from scholarships administered by the foundation. For this academic year, the total value of these awards is just under $400,000.00.
According to Pennycooke, the deepening commitment to investing in education in