Said candidates have been out at a fairly local school today having yet
another practise at this wretched exam. All of the local schools have now
‘closed’ for the summer holidays and are due to start up again at the end of
August. It is still not entirely clear why the candidates have been called to
sit another mock exam this week. To add to the confusion it was, as far as I
knew, supposed to take place on Tuesday and Wednesday this week but is now happening
today and tomorrow. I have a feeling that our pupils will be over prepared for
their exam in November if the current rate of mock exams is maintained.
As well as straining our pupils mental fibre sending them to another
school to sit the exam with two other schools puts a strain on our logistical
resources. Our Landrover is in good repair at the moment so it wasn’t difficult
to transport them all to the school that is hosting the exam. It was a bit of a
squeeze but it really is possible to fit seventeen fairly large teenagers and a
driver into our vehicle. It’s probably a good job that theydidn’t have to take
any roads with police blocks on though. The real problem came at dinner time.
We obviously have a duty to feed the children at lunchtime. As our school is on
holiday at the moment we did not have a lot of takers for the free lunch that
we still offer to our day scholars during the vacation. This meant that there
was plenty for the candidates. The only problem was that they couldn’t come to
us to eat it, and our Landrover was needed elsewhere at lunchtime. Fortunately
a piki piki, (motor bike) taxi was on hand to sort the problem out. Potatoes
and beans were on the menu today. They were duly loaded on the motor bike and dispatched to our hungry candidates. We have to repeat the whole process again
tomorrow.
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