Doodle Learn is a program targeting Spelling and Math to help students who missed out on crucial lessons during the COVID pandemic. These students had been engaged in distance learning and the data shows that those in standard four right now were most affected. In 2020, they would have been in infant 2.
Today at All Saints we asked both the Minister and the school's principal about the integration of this program.
Francis Fonseca, Minister of Education
"A lot of work has gone into that, a lot of analysis, a lot of data gathering as you rightly said. Both through our local experts and our local team as well as partnering with our international partners like the International Development Bank, the World Bank, and all of this. And that, yes, that students in that age group, say 10 to 12 were most affected and then it also highlighted, no surprise to us, it also highlighted that in these foundational areas of math and language, reading, spelling, the time table, those things were specific areas that were identified as areas that were weak and those were obviously foundational subjects and foundational areas so we had to come up with a plan to target that and this is a part of that response, it's a part of a much larger response to this issue that has been ongoing for many years, for several years, four years. But we were able to get the support of the IDB to fund some of these tools that we're giving out today."
Collin Estrada, Principal, All Saints School
"Right now, as you rightfully heard, it is in standard four that the program is solely for, okay? And so the students will have their license for a year. And so when they go into standard five, the ones that are coming up from standard three to standard four, they will get the license to go into the program."
Reporter
"Do you fear that the students who are in standard five and six and have already graduated since then, that they missed out on crucial, you know, that period, and now they're in high school."
Collin Estrada, Principal, All Saints School
"One of the things that we at this institution tried as, much to do during that period was that we had the Google Suite and even up to the point that we had here whereby we were able to lend students computer to be able to take home so they won't be that much of a deficiency,"
6,000 kids from 70 schools across the country will have access to the program.
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