Rhon­da Krys­tal Ram­bal­ly

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Tim Gopeesingh is hop­ing for "some quan­tum leaps" in pupils' per­for­mance in the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) re­sults in the next four years. He said this year's re­sults were bet­ter than last year's. Gopeesingh was speak­ing at the Ch­agua­nas Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School (CG­PS) yes­ter­day morn­ing where he an­nounced the first and sec­ond place win­ners. He said last year 11.5 per cent of the pupils failed to get be­yond 30 per cent but this year it had been re­duced to about 9.5 per cent. "We are mak­ing def­i­nite strides in the ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem but we want some quan­tum leaps now over the next four years," Gopeesingh added.

A to­tal of 17, 327 pupils wrote the ex­am on March 29. Among some of the oth­er pri­ma­ry schools cop­ping po­si­tions in the first 158 spots were Ex­change Pres­by­ter­ian, Mon­trose Gov­ern­ment, Curepe Pres­by­ter­ian, El Do­ra­do Hin­du, Gand­hi Memo­r­i­al Vedic, St Pe­ter's Pri­vate and San Fer­nan­do TML. Gopeesingh said: "This is a Gov­ern­ment school and it has done ex­treme­ly well. "There are a num­ber of de­nom­i­na­tion­al board schools which have al­so done well and we look for­ward to an im­proved per­for­mance year-to-year."

He al­so promised to re­ward the school with a mu­sic room "for your good per­for­mance" af­ter a re­quest was made by vice-prin­ci­pal Dhan­ragie Singh-Bachan. (RKR)