About West Terrace Primary School

 

DEMOGRAPHICS AND STAFF

West Terrace Primary School serves approximately 600 students from age 4 to 11 in a suburban district in St. James, Barbados. The school’s catchment area is unique serving students from low income, middle income and upper-middle income brackets. Approximately 40% of our student population takes part in the School Meals feeding programme.

The teaching staff is led by the principal and three Senior Teachers. WTPS has an Early Childhood Education Coordinator, a Language Arts Coordinator, a Mathematics and Science Coordinator and an Information Technology Coordinator.  WTPS has a teaching staff of 40 teachers who teach according to curriculum outlined by the Ministry of Education Technological and Vocational Training. Three teachers on staff are assigned to teach Digital Literacy as a part of the curriculum.

There is also an ancillary staff which is comprised of five janitors, one general worker, 6 school monitors and 6 school meals servers. There is also a guard  and school traffic warden attached to the school. A part- time clerk typist attends to the administrative needs of the school.

INFRASTRUCTURE

The campus comprises of two blocks and  a prefab building which house twenty-eight classes. There is an administrative block which consists of a foyer and reception area, the principal’s office, storeroom, sickbay and staffroom. There are three nutrition rooms and quarters for the ancillary staff. There is one computer lab which can accommodate thirty students. In addition, there is a “portable computer lab” called Profuturo which is equipped with intranet, a projector, screen, a teacher laptop and devices for twenty-four students.