 The PI Secondary School has elected its first-ever parent-teacher community association executive. This was in fulfilment of a mandate from EQUIP, the Education Quality Improvement Project funded by the Caribbean Development Bank. This event is geared at bonding with our parents and having good communication with our parents as well as our community members. Students have shown that when schools and communities work together it redounds to student success in every way. That's how parents and the community can lobby support for the schools for their existence and for the plans that they have for the future and for the kids. One objective is to get the community involved in the life of the students who will eventually form the workforce and become local leaders. The school is going through a transformation where we want to bring motivated subjects into the school and I would like to see the school and the community work together to decide which of these skilled programs they would like to see implemented in the school. The election of the new executive took place at a meet and greet special event organised by the PI Secondary School. Nominations were invited and elections held and in the end, Lisa Jabatis was elected the first president of the PI Secondary School Parent Teachers Community Association. Among her first tasks was a call for more community and parental support for the new PTCA. I feel the wider community need to be there when we call on them or don't even allow us to call on, just visit the school, find out what help they could bring to us. Visit, involve the students in the community, whatever PI needs, be there to support us. The students of the PI Secondary School were also involved in the exercise. Today we were all able to express ourselves, we talked about everything that happened, all the problems, all the difficulties that we were having. Everyone was happy, elated, I really enjoyed today. The students have welcomed the formation of the PTCA and pledged support. I will try my best to take part in every single activity. I will listen and learn from every single thing that's been taught. I am very excited because this is the first time the school has ever had something like this. I hope that the school will continue to grow so more students, more people could realise how great the school is. The PI Secondary School is one of four pilot schools to introduce the equip-inspired concept of a parent-teacher community association. What we are trying here is piloting and then we can move into a full-fledged NPTCA and we call it NPTCA because we want a community involvement. The other pilot schools are the Mico Secondary School, the Sufra Primary School and the Lady Gordon Opportunity Centre.