Reverend Henry Ward is best known for altering the Jamaican school system. Up until Reverend Henry Ward got involved with the authorities to alter it. the system was a flawed. neglecting system. with 100s. if non 1000s of kids unable to acquire educated because of the deficiency of installations. Although churches and infant Centres tried their best to provide for every bit many kids as possible. there was merely excessively much demand. That was until Reverend Henry Ward got involved in the schooling system. In 1938. Reverend Henry Ward started researching primary instruction for immature kids and began to run for kids in Jamaica. The run was a difficult undertaking to take on. as there really small instruction services back so. and non a batch of money was put aside by the authorities to put into edifice and making schools and instruction Centres. In 1938. after alarming the authorities of the despairing demand for primary schools.

Reverend Henry Ward developed a figure of community schools that subsequently became known as “basic schools” . He so went on to make schools in countries that needed critical aid. He one time said in an interview that he created a school for 3-6 twelvemonth olds after seeing them unprotected. running about the streets unattended. In 1941. Reverend Henry Ward held a presentation to the Jamaican Board of Education naming for the creative activity of ‘play centres’ . These Centres were to include drama narratives. action vocals. lessons on pets. the lovingness of a garden. the instruction of reading. composing. numeracy. trade and ready to hand work. This was dropped by the authorities. unhappily. although they did so make more “basic schools” in Ward’s name. Without Reverend Henry Ward contending every measure of the manner for basic. primary instruction. Jamaican schools would still now be really far and few between.