Vaz preparatory School

 
 

About Vaz Preparatory

Vaz Preparatory has a rich history of producing outstanding performances by our students and is considered among the best in Jamaica to provide early childhood education. With our broad academic curriculum, the school lays solid foundations in the development of confident, well-motivated and happy children who have an enthusiasm for learning and are willing to give of their best even when being stretched for high achievement.  Read More »

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Our mission is to maintain and enhance our school as an institution of excellence; in education, community relations and nation building; through a programme of teaching, nurturing and motivating, designed to help each child receive a foundation for adult life, in which full potential is developed in all areas - physical, moral, spiritual, cultural and intellectual in fulfillment of our motto..... "HONEST LABOUR BEARS A LOVELY FACE"

  • Top Performing school in GSAT in Region 1
  • Over 90% placement in traditional high schools
  • Top Boy award in GSAT in 2009 
  • Government Scholarship winners
  • Over 90% average in the Grade Four Numeracy and Literacy Results
  • 4th & 5th place winners in the Children’s Own Spelling Bee Parish Finals
  • Fourth place in the Inter-Prep Karate Competition 2010
  • Sixth place in the Mayberry Swim Meet -2011
  • Over 78 gold and National gold medals in the performing arts
  • Excellent Sports programme
  • Winners of the Alberga Cup Football Competition
  • Runners up in the Henriques Cup Football competition
  • Runners up in the JISA Inter-Prep Track & Field Meet -2010

Perfection was only a percentage point away

Published: Thursday | June 23, 2011 
Jeniel Green, of Vaz Preparatory School, received 100 per cent in three Grade Six Achievement Test subjects, missing out on perfection when she got 99 in mathematics. - Norman Grindley/Chief Photographer
Jeniel Green, of Vaz Preparatory School, received 100 per cent in three Grade Six Achievement Test subjects, missing out
on perfection when she got 99 in mathematics. - Norman Grindley/Chief Photographer

Jeniel Green, of the Vaz Preparatory School, stunned her teachers and family as she was just one percentage point away from attaining full marks in the recent Grade Six Achievement Test. Read More>>

 

 

A wonderful start - First outing for Vaz Prep's new dance troupe memorable

Published: Wednesday | May 18, 2011

Vaz Prep Dance Troupe Marcia Rowe, Gleaner Writer                   

It was a show of colours, vibrancy and, for the most part, clinical executions by the young talents, representing Vaz Preparatory  School, situated on Dunoon Road, Kingston. However, to have shared in the 60th anniversary land mark event, the school's launch of its dance troupe, students, parents and well-wishers had to make their way to the Little Theatre, Tom Redcam Avenue.  And they were not disappointed. Read More>>

 

 

Vaz holds 'a special place' in Sanya's heart

Published: Tuesday | May 10, 2011
Sanya Richard's

Raymond Graham, Gleaner Writer

WORLD Championships 400 metres champion, Sanya Richard-Ross, took time out of her busy schedule to facilitate her annual dedication to her alms mater, Vaz Preparatory, whose track team is preparing for next month's Inter-Prep Schools' Track and Field Championships. Read More>>

 

 

 

 

 

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Dancers from Vaz Prep

Prime Minister Bruce Golding hosted a ceremony at which he presented his Medal of Appreciation for Service to Education, to some well-deserved members of the profession at Jamaica House on Thursday, May 12, 2011