History of Solomon’s SDA School
Solomon’s School is located at the corner of Belize Road and Boundary Road. It is part
of the Louisiana Area facing the Palmar Village Boundary. Currently the school has four
separate buildings, one office and 2 separate bathrooms. A total of 14 rooms makeup the Primary
school and one the preschool. Most classes are facing the front Boundary Road while a few are
facing the main Belize Road and other classes are at the back of the school compound. There is
a fence lining the entire school, one main gate entrance, one back gate, one side gate facing the
Boundary road, smaller that the main entrance and one gate facing the Belize Road, which, has
no use and will be removed in due time. The school compound has trees planted at the front and
a few mahogany trees planted at the back. The play areas are at the back and is wide enough for
all children to enjoy running and playing ball. There are no volley ball courts, basketball courts.
Presently the school administrators, Tr. Julio Contreras, Principal, and Tr. Mirtha
Cawich, Vice Principal, are working hand in hand to build the school in its academics and also in
the involvement of the teachers in school planning, for different events and development. With
God’s help their efforts and efforts put in by the teachers will be successful.
Our school was established in 1972 as a result of the vision of Pastor Dennis Slusher who
thought it necessary to have a Seventh-day Adventist School in
the area of Belize Road in the Orange Walk town. He therefore
commissioned brother Manuel Guerra to recruit 50 students to
begin our school. This was eventually successful and classes
begun on that year for the first batch of students, Mrs. Linda
Slusher being the first principal of the school. The old church was used as the first school
building which had a movable partition sins the church was used for Sabbath service as well.
In 1985, an Adventist missionary donated $6,000.00 to begin our first school building.
Brother Isaac Conorquie was given the charge of constructing our first school building. In the
year 1998 and American and BDF contingent of solders built
our second building. It provided spacious classrooms and
helped the classroom to expand.
In the year 2008-2009 our new management encouraged us to make plans to begin a
preschool. At the beginning of that year, Myrna Trejo, who coordinates school building projects
for missionary groups form the United States informexd us that a
missionary group from California was interested in coming to Belize
to construct the walls and roof if a school had a foundation. The
school took the challenge and after seeking for the funding and
donations, and completed that foundation in time for the Monterrey Bay Academy to being their
part in March 19, 2009. The pre-school opened its doors in August 31, 2009
Other projects at the school include the cementing of the front section of the school yard.
Getting of picnic tables for the students to have lunch outside, new bathroom facilities were
donated and completed by 2013, the first building’s varendah was given a facelift in 2014.
In 2012, another group of students arrived and began construction of two new buildings
behind the Mount Sinai Seventh-day Adventist church. The project was completed by Monterrey
Bay Academy in the year 2015, with the help of many other Belizeans.
Throughout the years Solomon’s has had several school principals who have directed the
school in its long time achievements, principals such as Mrs. Henderson, Pastor Ernesto Clarke,
Brother Awardo, Tr. Armando Correa, Mrs. Sheryl Distan and the present Tr. Julio Contreras.
Each and every one of them, seeking to improve the school in all its possible ways.
Currently Solomon’s has a staff of 18 teaching principals, 2 administrators, and one
secretary; along with a warden and Janitor.
Teachers’ name
Class
Roselie Contreras, Abdi Sanker
Pre-school
Debralee Jesse, Vianney Cocom
Infant 1
Ada Cawich, Normita Lopez
Infant 2
Soyonnara Ku, Zandely Quetzal
Standard 1
Brendalee Lopez, Gisela Garcia
Standard 2
Dianelie Cabañas, Guadalupe Copó
Standard 3
Ellen Bowden, Yamany Ayuso
Standard 4
Nely Salam, Rosalva Roberts
Standard 5
Leila Cantun, Monica Hall
Standard 6
Standard 3 class profile
School year 2019-2020
This year the standard three class began with a total number of 17 children. By the third day one
more student was added to the classroom. There is an equal number of boys and girls in the
class; 9 boys and 9 girls, within the age range of 9-10 years. Students are very active, and
communicate with each other quite often. This to me seems a bit troublesome since the need for
classroom management will be great.
The number of students for the class is quite small, and after a few days of observation, I
was able to note that not all children are at the level of reading they should be. With help, most
of them will get better at reading, the main concern I have is that they have not been practicing
reading neither have they practiced their sight words. I have currently issued them a list of sight
words to work on, and this is also reinforced during the Language Arts lesson plans. Students
get to practice their sight words as part of the lesson.
The classroom itself is very spacious, with very high walls, and zinc top. Because of its
height, it was quite difficult to make the cleaning of the beams. The windows are mad from
metal, with burglar bars on the back windows but none in the front. There are two store rooms
which are used in some occasions, causing the Library and Math corner to be moved every once
in a while. One door marks the entrance and exit from the classroom. The lighting is not that
good, because of the way the windows are constructed and because of the type of windows, not
much light from the outside gets in, making the classroom look dark and boring. We use the
inside lights during the day to lighten up the class a little bit, but not all lights are functional.
The ceiling fans, there are four, one does not work, and they do not send enough air to flow in
the classroom. Recently we had problems with bats in the classroom flying while classes were
on, but after I ceiled their entrance, we do not see them anymore. There is a strong scent we
have in the mornings, coming probably from the store rooms, to alleviate and to remove it, I
open the class door and windows as early as I get to class, 7:45, and I turn on the fans to flush it
out. I also spray Fabuloso in so the smell can be fought and removed.
Boys
Girls
Brayden Torres
Adigra Chan
David Gongora
Analiya Deras
Diego Mencias
Elenita Canul
Ismael Aldana
Jahel Smith
Josue Tobar
Jenny Menjivar
Marco Deras
Kenzee Bacab
Rolando Noh
Kimora August
Rowen Gomez
Kirsten Bowden
Zenir Chable
Shadalie Acosta