Chess Olympiad

At SEPS we truly believe in providing the necessary support to ensure that our students get a holistic, sound education. Our students are very much involved with ALL Sporting activities in our community. Below are photos from this year’s Chess Olympiad held in Belmopan.

I am extremely proud of the teachers at Santa Elena Primary School for challenging themselves to be Lifelong Learners and having the Olympic Mentality- The best continuing to get better.

The teachers were placed in teams where they all read a habit from Steven Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. They were given journals and assignments to complete and the results were astonishing to say the least. Assignments ranged from posters, jingle, video clip, brochure, bookmark advertisement and prezi.

The presentations were both inspirational and rejuvenating . As teachers, we need to model lifelong learning for our students, and teachers are excited to know that  they have such an opportunity at SEPS where they can sharpen their saws.

The pictures below are from today's successful session.

Can the eight of you balance on 4 feet?

The teachers at SEPS are trying hard to live the way they teach - Life Long Learners. 

 Synergize

 Sharpen the saw

Habit 2 - Begin with the end in mind

You are awesome, totally awesome!

Think Win Win 

Santa Elena Primary School Open Day

 

We would like to invite you to attend our School Open Day on May 13, 2013. This is a great opportunity for you to have a better understanding of our school vision and mission; our educational philosophy; our teachers and students at SEPS.

For the past three years the teachers at SEPS have been involved in a Teacher Leadership Program, focusing on Educational Leadership and Teacher Efficacy. They strive to be: ‘Engaging Teachers who ENGAGE all students’. Come see the changes that have taken place in our school community that has lowered truancy and behavioral problems.

Our teachers at SEPS are passionate about delivering ‘Quality Education’ and children are experiencing the JOY OF LEARNING. At Santa Elena Primary School we are excited to share with the general public skills and strategies they have learned through the Teacher Leadership Program.

We hereby extend an invitation for you to come celebrate education week with us! May 6^th-17^th, 2013. 

Positive Validation from one of our Spring Visitors

 LaShell visited our school during the Spring Break with her daughter. She is a nurse and had the following to say about SEPS.

LaShell with her husband and two daughters,

Good Morning, and hello to each and every one of you!  My name is LaShell, and I recently had a chance to visit your beautiful country with my daughter and a group from her Middle School in South Carolina, USA.  I will start by saying that Belize is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen, but what makes your country SO beautiful goes beyond the lush and colorful flora and fauna , or even the inviting warmth of the beaches and the Carib Sea.  The thing that makes Belize so beautiful is it's people!  Without the visit to Santa Elena Primary School I would never have experienced the people of Belize in such an up close and personal way.  I first noticed your school's sign when we entered.  The triangle:  student, parent, teacher.  Academic; Aesthetic and Spiritual.  I knew that this would be something different.  When I read the school's mission statement there were tears welling in my eyes.  Doreen noticed, and then I began to cry as I told her that you all have found what we in America have lost.  You work together as families and communities.  And you work to instill POSITIVE MORAL VALUES in your students so that they become PRODUCTIVE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.  That is what made me cry.  I rode around for three days looking out of a bus window thinking how little you all had, but then I visited your school and realized that you all have SO MUCH MORE!  Be proud of who you are and what you do!  My life is forever changed for having met you and visited your school.  I have already returned home and shared this story with so many - by word of mouth, and by internet.  I want to get the message of what you taught me to as many as I can!  In so many ways this trip was like a missions trip to me, but not how one would think.  Instead, it was YOUR gift to ME!  I know that God had me there for a reason!  

The children that you teach and reach out to every day are so blessed to have you!  Do not ever be discouraged by the limitations that you face as their teachers, for you are giving them more than what can be provided with a computer or a textbook or the proper amount of pencils and paper.  You are giving them things that I long for my child to be given when she walks into her classroom at school everyday.  YOU are the fortunate ones!  I am changed for having met you.

Please know that I will regularly pray for each and every one of you.  I will also pray for the things that you need in your school to be provided.  I will be praying for a fruitful workshop and safe travel for each of you going to Orlando this summer.  Keep on setting a wonderful example for the children of your community.  The world is a better place for it already!  

Sincerely,

LaShell Head  

Wisconsin- Interact 2013

Thank you for donating to SEPS

Thanks for your generous donation of school supplies and $300 U.S. to Santa Elena Primary School .Your donation means a lot to our school and will go directly towards the purchasing of a much needed projector .  It is gifts like yours that makes what we do possible!

Thank you for playing with our students and for sharing with them!

 

Interact Group and Belizean Children and teachers

Okay Wisconsin you need to come back for the rematch!

What! I didn't Know that.