School’s auditorium prepped for students to write CSEC

North Ruimveldt Multilateral fire

– EDPM to be written at GTI

The auditorium of the North Ruimveldt Multilateral Secondary School has been prepared and equipped to allow for sittings of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations following a devastating fire last week

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Education Minister Priya Manickchand visited the institution on Friday, where she met with students and teachers. She noted that the Ministry did all in its power to put the school in a state of readiness to accommodate students for the exams.
“So the ball is now in your court. Today we hand the baton to you to take it from here. We’ve done everything we could possibly do to keep you in a frame of mind that will allow you to just soar. So go ahead and soar,” the Minister urged.

Along with furniture, electricity has been restored. Minister Manickchand added that while the majority of subjects will be written at the school, the students writing Electronic Document Preparation and Management (EDPM) will do so at the Government Technical Institute (GTI) and that transportation will be provided for those students. She also said that lunch will be prepared each day there is an examination to ensure the students are properly catered for.
A walkway is also under construction for students to access the building safely.
Following the meeting, each student was given a care package containing face masks, a spray bottle, sanitiSer, vitamin support, geometry set, ruler, pencils, pens, erasers and sharpeners to assist them in writing their examinations which begin on Monday.
Calculators were also donated to the mathematics department as a replacement for those that were destroyed by the fire.

Last Monday, the Minister would have met with students and parents to iron out plans that could be implemented to ensure that students take the examinations comfortably. The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) and the Guyana Power & Light Inc (GPL) have also been engaged to ensure the building is safe.
Some 65 students were scheduled to write the re gional examination this year and a majority of them had requested that the auditorium be used. Since the fire at the Mandela Avenue institution, the teaching block was destroyed to a point that it cannot be used at all in the immediate future.
The Minister had also pledged the Ministry’s support to provide any psychosocial support that might be needed by teachers and students of the school.

She had added, “If there is something that drives you even further in this period it must be that the students who wrote their CSEC the week after their school burnt down performed excellently. That must be what drives you.”
Officials from the Ministry would have also engaged the Head Teacher and teachers attached to the school, in order to lend support. On the scene of the fire last weekend, Manickchand had pledged Government’s commitment to rebuild the structure, which housed 512 students and 39 teachers.