{"id":29767,"date":"2026-05-06T20:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=29767"},"modified":"2026-05-06T20:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:03:24","slug":"sophia-primary-school-gets-new-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/sophia-primary-school-gets-new-wing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophia Primary School gets new wing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>-by Shamiah Grant<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new wing has been added to the Sophia Primary School, addressing overcrowding and bringing\u00a0comfort and convenience to both teachers and pupils. The investment was welcomed with one pupil expressing herself through a beautiful poem.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The facility encompasses nine classrooms, a head teacher&#8217;s office, two washroom blocks,\u00a0and an auditorium.\u00a0There is also a specialised reading room, a library, and a dedicated medical area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Education Minister Sonia Parag handed over the keys to the new wing to headmistress Sharon\u00a0Chapman and urged the teachers to master the new technologies reshaping today&#8217;s classrooms.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Leadership matters.\u00a0It matters in a school. If you don&#8217;t have good leadership or if you have weak leadership, you will have a weak\u00a0school,&#8221;<\/strong> she stressed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Principal Education Officer Emmanuelle Bridgewater says the investment represents\u00a0hope that more children will have a comfortable place to study, a space that is more modern\u00a0and conducive to learning.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-by Shamiah Grant A new wing has been added to the Sophia Primary School, addressing overcrowding and bringing\u00a0comfort and convenience to both teachers and pupils. The investment was welcomed with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[470,350],"tags":[488,370,462,412,405,987,986],"class_list":["post-29767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-488","tag-guyana","tag-ministry-of-education","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news","tag-schools","tag-sophia-primary"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29769,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29767\/revisions\/29769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}