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It appears that Class 4 pupils at Reynold Weekes Primary School will not be joining the thousands of other children sitting today’s Barbados Secondary Schools’ Entrance Examination (BSSEE).
One of them tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday.
A letter addressed to parents from principal Anderson Bishop stated that the students would have to take an alternative test next month.
“Please be informed that a Class 4 student has tested positive for COVID-19. Contact tracing has already started with select class members. Unfortunately, this contact tracing may not be completed by Wednesday, July 28, 2021.
“To this end, the Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Wellness, after considering multiple options, is now recommending that all students of Class 4 . . . write the alternative BSSEE scheduled for 11 August 2021,” it said.
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School monitor Valmay Millar checks the temperature of Class 4 Student Josiah King. (Picture by Lennox Devonish.) Social Share
Face-to-face instruction for Class 3 and 4 pupils at Blackman and Gollop Primary School resumed today but some parents are still displeased.
Parent Lester King described the conditions which parents encountered at the school on Monday as “extremely horrible”.
“There was no reason children had to come to school to find dirty desks and chairs in the hall. The ministry was wrong to allow the children to come when they knew the school wasn’t ready the Sunday before,” he said.
Even so, King said he was glad conditions had improved as the children needed face-to-face teaching.