Last week of school and exams 16.04.12

Almost time for the school holidays and the last week is always a mad rush.
Children from all grades in Upper primary (Grades 5-7) sit exams in all subjects and the marks are put together to give them a grade for the term.
I spent the week supervising in the exams and emphasizing the importance of rules in exams to the children who are very ill disciplined in this area. In the end the only way I got the message that they could not talk through to them was by taking a students paper when he was talking and physically putting it into the bin. (I did later take it out though, and luckily he had already finished his paper)

Once exams were over, all of the students parents were outside ready to take them home for the holiday and then us teachers had the long grueling task of marking, moderating and giving marks for the exams. These marks totaled up with others for the year and were then calculated to give the students a grade.

I am happy to say that 4 people in my English class(31) received an A grade. Unfortunately 6 did also get E's meaning that if they do not improve their grade next term then they will fail the year but the rest were comfortable B's and C's.

Agriculture was not as impressive with the majority getting a C or a D grade.