{"id":2,"date":"2019-10-14T20:26:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T20:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-04-29T23:31:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T23:31:20","slug":"about-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About PDJSS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200424_171831-1024x620.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"174\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200424_171831-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/?attachment_id=174#main\" class=\"wp-image-174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200424_171831-1024x620.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200424_171831-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200424_171831-768x465.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200424_171831-1536x930.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200424_171831-2048x1240.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200424_171914-1024x469.jpg\" alt=\"mural in foyer painted by St Omer\" data-id=\"176\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200424_171914-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/?attachment_id=176#main\" class=\"wp-image-176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200424_171914-1024x469.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200424_171914-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200424_171914-768x352.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200424_171914-1536x704.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200424_171914-2048x939.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"631\" src=\"https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200424_172413-1024x631.jpg\" alt=\"front of PDJSS campus\" data-id=\"177\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200424_172413-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/?attachment_id=177#main\" class=\"wp-image-177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200424_172413-1024x631.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200424_172413-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200424_172413-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200424_172413-1536x947.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_20200424_172413-2048x1262.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">A BRIEF HISTORY<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The school building housing the students of the Vide Bouteille Secondary School is by no means an entirely new structure. Originally, the structure housed the students of the Vide Bouteille Primary School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This school was phased out by the Ministry of Education and the structure was partly renovated in 1989 in preparation for the opening of the Vide Bouteille Secondary School in September of 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the opening of school 214 students were admitted consisting of five form one classes &#8211; sourced from Common Entrance Examination and three Form-three classes sourced from the Common Middle Examination. Presently the school houses close to 600 students from Forms 1 to 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In September 2019 the school was officially renamed Patricia D. James Secondary School after its first principal, the late Patricia D. James. Accompanied by this change was a change in student uniforms, school crest and school anthem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">MOTTO<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Christ for Discipline, Knowledge and Success<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">MISSION STATEMENT<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">To provide a well\u2013 rounded education, that will lead to students\u2019&nbsp; self development and prepare them for service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">CORE VALUES<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Care, Commitment, Trust, Mutual Respect, Discipline and Academic Excellence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A BRIEF HISTORY The school building housing the students of the Vide Bouteille Secondary School is by no means an entirely new structure. Originally, the structure housed the students of the Vide Bouteille Primary School. This school was phased out by the Ministry of Education and the structure was partly renovated in 1989 in preparation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdjss.edu.lc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}