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GSAT
scholarships
Three
2008 parish champions in The Gleaner's Children's
Own Spelling Bee Competition recently received
scholarships from the newspaper company,
based on their performance in the Grade
Six Achievement Test (GSAT).
They
are Tremaine Dixon, Lukel Miller and Shari-Jo
Miller. The scholarships are valued at $30,000
each and the recipients are from Kingston,
Mandeville and Trelawny.
Speaking
at the presentation function at the The
Gleaner's Kingston corporate offices, coach
Rev Glen Archer stressed that the quality
of parenting was necessary for the success
of the recipients.
"I
know that no one reaches their destination
without the help of others, the level of
discipline of the children made my job easy,"
he said.
Parents
commended
Archer,
a coach of many spelling bee champions,
who coached Tremaine, recipient of the scholarship
for the county of Surrey, commended parents
for their attention to detail in monitoring
the home and the ethical approach they used
to motivate their children.
Stephen
Miller, father of Shari-Jo (recipient for
Middlesex), told Youthlink that parents
need to acknowledge the needs of children
and work with the teachers and monitor schoolwork
in order to assist them.
"Though
we have always known that she is a capable
student, we still did not take things for
granted," he said. "We still recognise
that she's a child and she's always going
to want to do the child things, so we have
to ensure balancing the time between studies,
but study was a priority."
Shari-Jo,
who aspires to become a botanist, will attend
Bishop Gibson High School. She said she
was happy the hard work paid off.
"I
did a whole lot of studying and had to make
a lot of sacrifices also. I had to give
up the TV and the video games," she
said, laughing as her parents looked on.
Lukel,
recipient for the county of Cornwall, from
Albert Town Primary, will be going to Knox
Community College. He said he developed
self-esteem through the eloquence he developed
from reading.
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Gleaner
Children's Own Spelling Bee Grade
Six Achievement county scholarship
recipient for Cornwall, Lukel Miller,
is all smiles as he accepts a plaque
from The Gleaner Deputy Managing Director
Christopher Barnes.
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Shari-Jo
Miller, Middlesex County Scholarship
awardee, shows off her trophy with
The Gleaner's Chairman and Managing
Director Oliver Clarke at the 2008
Grade Six Achievement Test luncheon.
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Tremaine
Dixon receives his trophy from Marketing
Manager Karin Cooper.
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Rudolph
Speid (left), The Gleaner's group
financial controller, hands over a
cheque to Tremaine Dixon (right),
Gleaner Children's Own Spelling Bee
Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT)
county scholarship recipient for Surrey,
while Lukel Miller (second left) and
Shari-Jo Miller look on during the
recent Gleaner Children's Own Spelling
Bee GSAT county scholarship luncheon,
held at the newspaper's North Street,
central Kingston offices. Lukel is
the recipient for Cornwall and Shari-Jo
is the recipient for Middlesex.
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Photos by Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer
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