Over 3,300 stu­dents have reg­is­tered for the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion's (MOE) Va­ca­tion Re­vi­sion Pro­gramme (VRP), which be­gan on Mon­day in 80 pri­ma­ry schools across Trinidad.

The VRP Pri­ma­ry runs from Mon­day, Ju­ly 10th to Au­gust 11 and caters for stu­dents en­ter­ing Stan­dards Four (4) and Five (5) in Sep­tem­ber 2023.

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter, Dr. Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly, has said, “In 2022, the VRP Sec­ondary was launched, cater­ing for stu­dents en­ter­ing Form One (1). In 2023, the VRP Pri­ma­ry has been added to the MOE's of­fer­ings, at 80 Pri­ma­ry Schools un­der the Min­istry's Re­me­di­al Ed­u­ca­tion Pro­gramme. This is yet an­oth­er mea­sure to pro­vide ad­di­tion­al aca­d­e­m­ic and psy­choso­cial sup­port to our stu­dents and par­ents who need it most. The MOE's Af­ter-School Tu­ition Pro­gramme op­er­at­ed at these Pri­ma­ry schools through­out Aca­d­e­m­ic Year 2022/23, and con­ti­nu­ity is now of­fered by the VRP Pri­ma­ry, pro­vid­ing am­ple op­por­tu­ni­ties for our stu­dents to be pos­i­tive­ly en­gaged, and for the mit­i­ga­tion of learn­ing loss, which is still af­fect­ing our stu­dents, some dis­pro­por­tion­ate­ly, based on their COVID-19 ex­pe­ri­ence."

A to­tal of three thou­sand, 3,381 of an es­ti­mat­ed 3500 stu­dents have reg­is­tered to par­tic­i­pate in the VRP, which will fea­ture class­es in Math­e­mat­ics, Eng­lish Lan­guage Arts and Eng­lish Lan­guage Arts Writ­ing, along with week­ly ses­sions in Dance, Dra­ma and Mu­sic. Over 90% of the tu­tors se­lect­ed for the VRP Pri­ma­ry are a part of the co­hort of over six hun­dred and 50 (650) teach­ers trained in re­me­di­al teach­ing of Read­ing, Writ­ing, and Math­e­mat­ics by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) dur­ing this Aca­d­e­m­ic Year 2022/23.

Par­ents of stu­dents at­tend­ing the 80 schools of­fer­ing the VRP Pri­ma­ry are asked to note that late reg­is­tra­tion is avail­able un­til Fri­day, 14th Ju­ly, 2023. Class­es will be con­duct­ed be­tween 9:00 am to 3:00 pm dai­ly, and break­fast and lunch are pro­vid­ed for stu­dents. Par­ents can con­tact the School Prin­ci­pals for fur­ther in­for­ma­tion.