As learners sitting the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exams in March make their final preparations, Mwiki Primary School in Ruiru, Kiambu County has registered 644 candidates.
The school headteacher Joseph Kamau
said that despite interference of the academic calendar by Covid-19, all the candidates are done with the normal syllabus and are currently doing revision in readiness for the March 7 – 10 exams.
Speaking during a class-eight parents meeting, Kamau revealed that the public school has been having remedial classes to catch up with the lost time.
He made the remarks days after education CS George Magoha allayed fears by KCPE and KCSE candidates who had expressed concerns that the exams will cover the whole syllabus yet they spent most of the school calendar at home due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mr. Kamau and Pastor Eunice said that high standards of discipline among all pupils, teachers and school management has seen the institution plan their time and class work and is now ready to battle it out with other candidates across the country.
In the wake of revelations that two candidates sitting last year’s exams committed suicide, parents were encouraged to support and cheer the candidates to withstand the season.
Ruiru MP Simon King’ara
who later addressed the parents regretted that most of them were struggling financially as a result of Covid-19 effects that continue to be felt.
While announcing plans to add more classrooms to the institution that boasts of having 4,5000 learners, King’ara announced that his Simon King’ara Foundation will facilitate free lunches for the over 7,000 candidates sitting their exams in the populous Constituency.
King’ara said that most of the candidates sitting the exams in 17 public primary schools hail from poor backgrounds and only get a single meal a day adding that the free meals will motivate them pass exams.