The Jamaica National Primary and All-Age cricket competition, named after title sponsor Jamaica National Building Society, gets underway April 8. The competition will see thousands of young cricketers testing their mettle at both the parish and national levels, in the hope of taking home championship trophies for their schools.

It doesn’t matter what size you are, as long as you strive for the best. This, in a nutshell, sums up the attitude of the staff and students of Milk River Primary, a small school doing big things within its community. Principal Rose Davis is quick to tell anyone who visits that her school boasts well-behaved, bright and talented children.

The school has over 2000 students, there are large class sizes, and the school operates on the shift system. And yet Naggo Head Primary always fields a team in the Junior Schools Challenge Quiz Competition, ranks among the nation’s best in Mathematics and Science grades, and this year became the first school to win the INSPORT/Swizzle Primary School Track and...

It’s Mathematics Week and for today’s programme we highlight the recently launched National Primary Schools' Mathematics Competition. We also hear some teaching strategies from two of Jamaica’s most innovative primary school teachers.

Studies have shown that when incorporated into an academic curriculum, music enhances a child’s ability to learn. With this in mind, First Global Bank sought to partner with the Ministry of Education in 2011 to launch a pilot programme that would see music being incorporated into the Grade 3 curriculum of six primary schools.

Maxfield Park Primary was established January 4, 1963 and has steadily become a pillar of education within the community.

The staff at Harbour View Primary is intent on making students are motivated to do their best at all times. And they have been using several strategies to guarantee this success. The first of these is the honour roll system.

The programme that highlights all the good things happening at the primary level. This week we spend some time at Rollington Town Primary School, getting to know the staff and students of this resilient school in the heart of eastern Kingston.