Students of Gordons Secondary School in the National Capital District (NCD) will have to work harder this year to enable their school to be competitive with the rest the schools in PNG.
The school aims to make 2021 academic year the year for the school to become one of the country’s top 5 performing schools like they did in the past.
The Principal of the School, Mr George Kenega said that the past two years, the school didn’t make it into the top 5 but this year will be different.
“I have spoken to my teachers and I will work with them to achieve this aim for this year.”
“If we were to be rated according to the number of our students that make it into tertiary institution, then our school will definitely be in the top 5. It is a bit unfair that we have been rated against schools that have lesser number of students sitting for the exams so their average is higher than ours.”
He added that last year the school had over 200 grade 12’s sit for the exams and the schools that were ranked in the top 5 had lesser students.
“When my students don’t do well, I lose sleep so this year we will work very hard.”
“We have 50 teachers in the school but we need another 11 more so that the lesson load can be shared equally and we can achieve our aim for this year.”
This week most students braved the heavy rain and turned up at school for the first day of the schooling year.
However, due to the heavy rains and wet conditions in the city, classes did not eventuate and grade 10’s and 12’s had to be sent home while the grade 9’s and 11’s stayed back for their orientation.
Students that missed out on registration last week also turned up for late registrations.