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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

San Fernando schools excel at SEA

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1103 days ago
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Ameer Has­sanali loves hunt­ing but when he saw his daugh­ter Sumayyah Has­sanali strug­gling with Math­e­mat­ics, he aban­doned his hob­by, took time off from work and be­gan help­ing her. 

Their study time to­geth­er not on­ly strength­ened their bonds but en­sured suc­cess as Sumayyah passed for her first-choice school- AS­JA Girls Col­lege. 

Hug­ging each oth­er out­side the San Fer­nan­do TML Pri­ma­ry School on Fri­day, Ameer said she scored 92 per cent in Maths. 

He said the pan­dem­ic had tak­en a toll on her men­tal­ly as she had missed so­cial­iz­ing with her friends. 

"One day she got so up­set and told us she was fed up with on­line school and that she missed her friends. My wife and I had to sit down with her and tell her that soon the pan­dem­ic will be over and she will get to see them again," he re­called. 

Ameer said they set up zoom meet­ings with her class­mates and or­ga­nized lit­tle play­dates so she could de-stress as she en­gaged in her SEA stud­ies.  

Ameer praised the Stan­dard 5 teach­ers Shaz­ara Mo­hammed and Ims­haz Ho­sein for work­ing ex­tra hours to sup­port their stu­dents. 

"The teach­ers es­pe­cial­ly Miss Shaz­ara Mo­hammed were there help­ing the stu­dents will­ing­ly giv­ing up their time af­ter school hours. Be­cause of their sac­ri­fice Sumayyah did so well," he added.  

Mean­while, 14 stu­dents who achieved the high­est grades re­ceived tro­phies as they drove by the school to col­lect their re­sult slips. 

Is­abel­la Bethelmy, who was one of the school's top per­form­ers said she was hap­py that she passed for her first choice. Her moth­er Dr Vanes­sa Har­ry hugged her say­ing she had worked hard to achieve her top grades which earned her a place at Na­pari­ma Girls High School. 

Mean­while, Stan­dard five Im­ti­az Ho­sein said he was al­so pleased with the stu­dents per­for­mance. 

"The re­sults at San Fer­nan­do TML were ex­treme­ly good this year, giv­en the dif­fi­cul­ties of Covid. This class was on­line for the ma­jor­i­ty of SEA prepa­ra­tion and we are proud of our stu­dents," Ho­sein said. 

At San Fer­nan­do AS­JA Pri­ma­ry School, Al­liana Ali hugged her par­ents, Lind­say and Im­ti­az Ali as they walked out of the school. Lind­say said they were hap­py to get their grades on­line this year even though it took a while to ac­cess it. 

Mean­while, at Cedar Grove Pri­vate School, the wife of crick­eter and crick­et coach Samuel Badree cel­e­brat­ed with their daugh­ter Sama­ra who al­so at­tained her first choice. 

"I am ex­cit­ed for her. It has been tough for the kids, Cedar Grove did ex­cel­lent­ly," Sta­cy said. 

An­oth­er stu­dent Bradley Gopeesingh was al­so hap­py. 

" I wasn't ex­pect­ing to pass for Naps, that was my dream. I am very hap­py. I got a Playsta­tion 5 and a phone al­ready so I don't want any­thing else," he added.  

The prin­ci­pal of Cedar Grove Pri­vate school Sha­heed Al­la­ham said he was pleased with the grades. 

" "This year our re­sults were ex­cel­lent. We had 25 stu­dents writ­ing ex­ams, 19 get­ting first and sec­ond choice," he added.  

He im­plored par­ents to con­tin­ue to work with their chil­dren. 

"It does not mat­ter which school you passed, if you work dili­gent­ly you will reap suc­cess," he said. 

Re­porter: RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

 


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