Summer programmes will provide students with life skills: Al Hammadi

DOHA: The Minister of Education and Higher Education H E Dr Mohammed Abdul Wahed Ali Al Hammadi praised the summer recreation programmes and its activities that include sports, reading, exploring, innovations, discussion panels, teaches foreign languages, Qatari culture and agriculture.

He added that the events will help lay a competitive foundation among students, and will contribute to filling their time, developing their knowledge, consolidating their educational, cultural, social, sports and behavioural values. It will also provide them with life skills appropriate to their age groups.

The Minister made these remarks during his visit to the summer recreation centre at Hassan bin Thabit Secondary Boys School located in the old airport area, QNA reported.

The school is one of the ministry’s centres holding a summer programme. The Minister met with the participating students and was introduced to the type of activities and school programmes provided, how beneficial they are to them and their vision on how to develop the programme in the future. He praised their active participation for benefiting from their free time, especially with regards to developing their skills and scientific, spiritual and physical abilities.

The Minister also valued the parents’ role for encouraging their children to enroll saying the summer programme has attracted many students and achieved its goals of building a balanced personality, developing their skills and nationalism and discovering and refining their talents. The programme also achieved the goal of directing their emotions, intellectual and physical energies to the right and positive direction, protecting them from the negative effects of free time and providing them with the team spirit that benefits them in their future.

The ministry’s summer programme which kicked off last week, will run till August 16 in 10 different schools for boys and girls.