Tenniel Carew knows the benefits of wise investments – financial and otherwise.
A sixth-form teacher of accounting and management of business (MOB) teacher at Bishop Anstey High School East & Trinity College East (BATCE), she has been investing her time and knowledge in her students for the past seven years and it has borne rewarding fruit.
This year was no different, as 11 of her students placed on the Caribbean Examination Council's (CXC) regional merit list – a list of the top ten students in every CAPE subject in the Caribbean.
“In unit one, my students secured four places: one in first place, two tying for second place and one in eighth. In accounting unit two, two tied for first and four for fourth,” an elated Carew told WMN.
One of her lessons students from another school also tied for fourth place in accounting unit two. The unit one exam is done in lower six, and unit two in upper six.
She wasn’t expecting a merit list this year, as a result of the structure of the exam.
“The exams were multiple choice and I wasn’t sure if CAPE was going to issue a list. But I raise my students to be great, so there was no surprise that they did so well,” she said.
The school also got seven national scholarships in total, three of which were copped by her students – one open and two additional.
Carew, 30, said she understands the importance of having people believe in your potential and pushing you to be your best, as she too had that advantage. Her parents George and Marjorie Carew, her accounts teacher at Arima Central Secondary School, Cynthia Langdon and captain of the Exodus steel orchestra Julie Williams are among them.
“Miss Langdon lit my passion for accounting because she made it relatable. She was a teacher inside and outside the classroom, and gave us her number to call her if we needed her to explain anything.”
Carew went on to do accounting at sixth form at BATCE, majored in accounting in her first degree at UWI, and she is now completing her ACCA certification.
[caption id="attachment_893774" align="alignnone" width="719"] Tenniel Carew majored in Accounting at the University of the West Indies and is completing her ACCA certification. - ROGER JACOB[/caption]
“And I played pan throughout it all. Most of my studies was done at the Exodus panyard,” in St Augustine. Eventually, she said, she intends to do a master’s degree and move on to lecturing in tertiary education.
She started playing pan at nine, and at 13 became an Exocubs member. In 2005 she played “on the road” with Exocubs, and in her first Panorama in 2006 as a member of Exodus.
“I play the cello pan, and we played Max it Up. Listen! It was amazing. Moving from the little league to playing with the big band. The older band members used to take really good care of me.”
She laughed as she recalled a time when a teacher told her father she was falling asleep at school, and he threatened to stop her from playing pan until she learned to b
