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June 9, 2021
Minister Bradshaw announces July 28, 2021, as the new date for the Barbados Secondary School Entrance Examination ( 11+)
The syllabus was not completed.
Students had great difficulty in understanding mathematical concepts taught in the online environment.
Although the performance in English was moderate, there is still a need to improve in all content areas.
More than 50 per cent of students will need extra time to prepare for BSSEE
More than 50 per cent of students will proceed to secondary school with severe deficits.
(Joy Adamson , Acting Chief Education Officer)
Deferral of CXC exams
Minister Bradshaw announced that the Ministry of Education will offer deferrals to students who may not feel ready to take the 11+ examination. Consultations will take place over the next few weeks.
by Bajan Reporter / May 27th, 2021
This is a sad sad day for CARICOM and particularly our children.
We are Not Impressed.
We continue to be Embarrassed. Ashamed. As we have been for
EIGHT MONTHS. We are Hurting for our stress-ridden children, both from C19 context and CXC’s cruelty, whose pain has been utterly ignored by CXC who has been enabled by
CARICOM/COHSOD. Indeed, our children’s emotional and other well-being has been sacrificed on the altar of ‘
Exam integrity/equivalency/pedagogical rigour‘.
CARICOM/CXC appears to be proud to be unique worldwide, in being unable to find the innovation, technical ability, responsiveness, to fundamentally amend its School Exit Assessments in response to the C19 pandemic stressors, deep stress of children and teachers, and online schooling challenges and inequities – primary and secondary school – which CARICOM/CXC had at least 6 months to plan for. We have learned nothing from the 2020 Exam Fiasco and apparently plan to
May 9, 2021
Minister of Education Santia Bradshaw has given the greenlight for the phased rollout of more face-to-face classes to continue from Tuesday, May 11.
Speaking during Sunday’s live COVID-19 update, Bradshaw said that after having several discussions with principals of nursery, primary, secondary, and special needs schools over the last several days, and with additional cleaning of ash being completed at more schools, more face-to-face classes will commence.
“At present we have approximately 26 small primary schools, which as of today can take in all of their students on Tuesday the 11th. We also have four of our large schools; George Lamming, Arthur Smith, Hilda Skeene, and St Stephen Primary, which are also in the position to take all of their students using a phased approach.
WATER RELIEF.
I would instruct Minister Edghill to provide continuous water to those who have been without water for years, within 2 weeks. This is too long overdue. Approximately 90% of the cost, effort and time to get water to the reservoir in question, is in the trenching to get the pipes in the ground. That is why it is taking years to get this done. Quick relief can be provided by running water lines temporarily on the surface, and trenching at road crossings that do not have drainage culverts.
The BWA can contract several private sector construction companies to trench across all the required intersecting roads, install pipe sleeves, and then backfill the trench. A construction crew can complete at least one intersecting road in one night – hence the need for several contractors. Once people have relief, the BWA can then resume their slow-trenching to put the mains underground.