Educating young minds for better vision
EBER KINDERGARTEN & Preparatory School is committed to ensuring a safe learning and teaching environment for everyone, regardless of their background. We cater to children’s cognitive, social, emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being in a clean, safe, and secure environment with a friendly, loving, and caring staff. In order to maintain our high academic standards, it’s important that we keep classrooms orderly and productive so students can learn.
In keeping with our motto, ‘Educating Young Minds for Better Vision’, we have created a code of discipline to help all of us achieve this goal.
HISTORY
Eber Kindergarten & Preparatory was founded in 1998 by Cyril and Michelle Ramson in Mt Salem, St James. The school started with a total of 15 students and two teachers – Michelle Ramson, the principal, and Mrs Gooden, teacher. The school was relocated to Reading main road in St James in September 2006, and then to its present home in August 2013. Today, Eber Kindergarten & Preparatory has a population of over 270 students and 20 members of staff under the guidance of Director Michelle Ramson and Principal Merna Farquharson-Hart.
Our GSAT passes over the years have proven that our reliance on God, our Supreme Guide, hard-working teachers, and the never-give-up attitude of our director, Michelle Ramson, have empowered and prepared our students, who continue to excel throughout the years.
Eber Kindergarten & Preparatory has become a school of choice for many parents and children. The different extra-curricular activities continue to enhance our students’ performance. Some of these activities are swimming, dance, music, martial arts, culture club, football, tennis, cricket, 4-H Club, and spelling bee.
One of our most outstanding accomplishments was when Adriena Cribb copped the Spelling Bee trophy for the parish of St James in 2009. In 2017, we were recognised as the most outstanding school at the Region 4 Literacy Fair.
The JCDC Festival of the Performing Arts music category is one area in which we excel. For the last five years, we have won over 80 medals, inclusive of gold, silver and bronze. In 2010 and 2012, we were awarded Junior Music Champions for the parish of St James in the JCDC Festival of the Performing Arts. We have been invited to perform at numerous civic ceremonies.
Our teachers are all trained, but most important, they are all Christians. We have weekly prayer services, and harvest and thanksgiving services.
We have committed our entire operation to the Lord for His continued leading and directing as we ‘educate young minds for better vision’.
VISION STATEMENT
As an institution of learning focused on producing individuals of excellence, we are committed to providing for the ethical, spiritual, emotional, and intellectual development of each student, which will adequately prepare them with the necessary skills for high school and to succeed in our fast-changing, multicultural, and technological world.
MISSION STATEMENT
To provide a loving and secure environment with formal education, and to assist in the total growth and development of each student, with emphasis on moral values and attitudes, as we strive to educate young minds for better vision and to empower them to move into the future responsibly and confidently.