Happy House School is to set its own examinations to make them more exacting for pupils.Uncle Ronald, our social worker, explains:
All primary schools and kindergartens do exams with multiple choice answers provided on the question papers. Pupils are required to choose one of the four answers provided. It is clear that if you are lucky in guessing you can score good marks even if in reality you don’t know the right answers.
Once you join high school things are different; no answers are being provided on the exam papers.
Most students find it hard because they are not used to this method and it takes some time to settle into the new system.
At Happy House we always plan ahead. Mama always encourages staff to talk abuut any ideas they might have on how best we can help the children; we work together not only as a team but also as a family.
In one of the teachers’ meetings, Mama brought the idea that we should start giving the primary and kindergarten kids exams without multiple choice answers. This will not only allow teachers to assess the exact academic ability of their pupils but will also prepare them for moving on to high school.
The idea was taken positively by all the teachers and last Friday we had a special morning assembly where Mama informed the children on the changes.
It started with a prayer from Mama, then singing where the Home kids had two groups competing in singing; boys and girls.
The boys team was led by Benedict while the girls team was led by Rukia.
The girls emerged to be the winners for singing nicely. The boys were very good in entertaining as there was a lot of laughing and cheering during their turn. In short nobody lost; they were all winners!
The kids were very excited on the changes of exams.
They are always ready to be challenged when it comes to academic matters.
This change means we will be setting our own exams as all the exams we normally buy from outside come with answers. This means there will be a lot of printing and photocopying.
To make it easy for the teachers, Mama has invested in a photocopier for the school. It will be a huge asset.
We are waiting to see the results of the end term exams with these new changes.
