The Jamaica Environment Trust hosted its eighth Annual National Awards ceremony at the Terra Nova Hotel on Wednesday, September 28, 2005. Sixty-eight of the 200 schools which participated received prizes for outstanding performance in the SEP in the following categories:

1. Managing Garbage

2. Greening of School Grounds

3. Environmental Club

4. Environmental Research

The national winners in the programme for 2004/2005 were:

1. Westwood High, 1st place - First Caribbean International Bank Trophy

2. Airy Castle Primary, 2nd placem - Canada/Jamaica Green Fund Trophy

3. Clonmel Primary and Junior High, 3rd place - Jamaica Energy Partners Trophy

This year an environmental research component was introduced in the advanced schools. An advanced school is one which has performed consistently well in the programme over the years and now serve as a model school for the other schools in the parish they represent. The winners in the advanced schools' competition were: 

• Ferncourt High, 1st place Senior

• McGrath High, 2nd place Senior

• West Indies College Prep, 1st place Junior

• Sandy Bay Primary and Junior High & Gideon Educational Centre, 2nd place Junior

Unfortunately SEP has been downsized from 200 to 100 schools due to financial constraints, however JET continues to conduct teacher training workshops annually for 353 schools across the island. 

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