All set for big change at Anchovy High

WESTERN BUREAU: EDUCATION MINISTER Ronald Thwaites has given a commitment that he will be in attendance when the new Montpelier Campus of the Anchovy High School comes on stream for the 2015-2016 school year in September.

Thwaites will lead the delegation from the Ministry of Education, which will officially open the new campus, which will convert the Anchovy High School, which has been operating for the past 40 years on a shift system, into a full day school

The new campus, which formerly operated as a Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) camp site, will now house the school’s cohort of grade seven and eight students, while the original campus will house grades nine to 11 students.

According to Byron Buckley, communications manager at the Ministry of Education, all is in place, including the furniture for the classrooms, for a smooth start at t he new campus i n September.

“We are ready, and the ministry is happy to be taking another school off the shift system as this will allow for more teacher-student contact hours and bring a well-needed solution to the problem of overcrowding for a school with such a large student population,” Buckley said.

The Anchovy High School, which currently has a student population of 2,200, has been on the shift system since 1975.