Principal cheers school’s performance

Despite the challenges encountered due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, Principal of Charles F Broomes Memorial Primary Dr Monica Walton is pleased with the school’s 2021 Barbados Secondary Schools’ Entrance Examination (BSSEE) performance.

Dr Walton said due to the hard work and sacrifice of teachers and students, the overall performance of students has been commendable, with the Government Hill, St Michael institution recording 80.5 per cent of the students scoring above 50 per cent in Mathematics and 89.7 per cent of the students scoring above 50 per cent in English.

Giving a brief insight into the results, she told Barbados TODAY that four students scored 100 per cent in Mathematics, and 30 students scored from 90 and 99 per cent.

“Three of them scored 99 per cent, five scored 98, 18 scored between 90 and 97 and 17 scored between 80 and 89 and 15 scored between 70 and 79, in Mathematics,” she said.

She said in English, 22 students scored between 90 and 97 per cent, while 30 students scored between 80 and 89 per cent and 16 students scored between 70 and 79 per cent.

In Composition, 91.2 percent of the students scored above 50 per cent, with 26 getting grade A, 32 grade B and 22 grade C.

“It’s a remarkable feat. I don’t think there is any other school in Barbados which had 30 children scoring between 90 and 100 in Mathematics, or 22 scoring between 90 and 97 in English. So, we have done remarkably well. We congratulate all students on their successes and we urge them to excel in their new schools,” Dr Walton said.

The school’s top girl Meka King scored 94 in English and 100 in Mathematics with a total score of 243.43 B. The 2021 top boy Kaleb Austin scored 242.41 A made up of 94 in English and 98 in Mathematics. Both King and Austin are headed to Queen’s College.

Jazarra Porte received the most marks in English which was 97 per cent while Naeem Thomas scored 95 in English which was the highest mark among the boys.

Solana Clarke, Meka King, Danielle Lloyd and Chanon Reifer-Belle all received 100 in Mathematics and all four girls will be headed to Queen’s College.

Dr Walton said that even in the online platform, teachers continued to work hard with students. She said when face-to-face classes resumed, the school initially experienced challenges in getting all Class 4 students back to school because of the classrooms.

“But we were able to rectify that issue and the children did remarkably well. Because we have a school population of almost 700 children and each of our classes has more than 30 children. So herein lies our challenge with getting our students into the face-to-face environment.

“But despite all those challenges the students would have done exceptionally well and I really want to congratulate them and to thank the teachers for giving of their time. I know it was not easy, it was very difficult. Teachers worked under extremely difficult conditions, but they were able to persevere and deliver,” she said. (AH)