Lowest-performing primary school students to be placed in one school

The Ministry of Education has introduced a targeted initiative aimed at enhancing the education of underperforming primary school students by grouping Level 4 and select Level 3 students at Clare Hall Secondary School. 

“The 12 percent, those students that are in the level 4 and the level 3, particularly the level 4…those students would have scored less than 100. And what we intend to do with those students, we put them all in one place,” Director of Education Clare Browne revealed.

He elaborated on the program’s structure, detailing, “We’re going to give them three teachers, a teacher that is going to be focused on literacy, a teacher that is going to be focused on numeracy, and then a teacher that would do with them some math and science. So those three teachers will be with them all the time. Then they are going to do the technical vocational subjects with the rest of the school.”

Browne says these students will also be able to do the usual school subjects.

The secondary school entry exam results are categorized into four levels, with Level 1 representing the highest achievement