A male student who placed within the ‘top 10’ of the highly competitive Caribbean Primary Exit Assessment (CPEA) examinations, had set a goal to overtake the score his mother had gotten years before him. At the beginning of this school year Jael Forbes decided to aim for the top spots in the 2022 exams. “I wanted to get into the first 100 at least and when my mother did her …
EXCITEMENT AND SATISFACTION are two emotions that 11-year-old Kaela Bobb experienced when she learned that she had placed second for girls and second overall in this year’s CPEA examinations. Kaela, who was valedictorian of the Kingstown Preparatory School’s 2022 graduating class, told SEARCHLIGHT that she felt “really, really good” about her achievement because she worked really hard to attain it. “I went to extra classes on the weekends and I …