RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

Nine­teen pupils who ex­celled in the 2023 Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tions have been award­ed by TML San Fer­nan­do Pri­ma­ry School.

Among them was Mi­la Zoro, who achieved an out­stand­ing score, com­ing close to per­fec­tion.

These pupils ranked among the best per­form­ers na­tion­wide, prompt­ing some par­ents to sub­mit re­quests for their na­tion­al rank­ing un­der the Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act.

Dur­ing the event, act­ing school prin­ci­pal Wahi­da Mo­hammed-Nar­ine ap­plaud­ed the stu­dents for their re­mark­able achieve­ments. The top per­form­ers, in­clud­ing Zoro, Zia Khan, Arisa Ra­jan, Ehsan Ahmed, Kayleb Nand­lal, Melanie Ba­j­nath, Vinai Ra­jack, Christyana Singh, Sasthi Dabideen, De­visa Ram­di­al, Sid­hesh­wari Ram­sumair, An­gel­i­ca Ali, Saeed Dhan­raj, Ali­na Dwarkah, Di­vya Lutch­mans­ingh, Reisha Bachan, Ab­du­rah­man Sal­im, Mikaeel Baig, and An­ish Ram­per­sad, were each pre­sent­ed with tro­phies in recog­ni­tion of their out­stand­ing achieve­ments.

Mo­hammed-Nar­ine re­vealed that out of the 69 pupils who sat the ex­ams, an im­pres­sive 57 were ac­cept­ed in­to their first-choice schools.

She said a re­mark­able 83 per cent of pupils gained ad­mis­sion to pres­ti­gious in­sti­tu­tions such as Na­pari­ma Girls’ High School, Na­pari­ma Col­lege, AS­JA Boys’ San Fer­nan­do, AS­JA Girls, St Joseph Con­vent, and Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do.

“We had over 22 stu­dents who scored over 90 per cent over­all, with some achiev­ing per­fect scores in one or more sub­ject ar­eas,” Mo­hammed-Nar­ine re­vealed.

Ex­press­ing her sat­is­fac­tion with the re­sults, she urged pupils in low­er grades to work hard and strive for suc­cess, em­pha­sis­ing the school’s com­mit­ment to recog­nis­ing and sup­port­ing its top-per­form­ing stu­dents.

Mo­hammed-Nar­ine high­light­ed the out­stand­ing per­for­mance in Eng­lish Lan­guage Arts (ELA) and Math­e­mat­ics, say­ing the pupil’s scores ex­ceed­ed the school’s ex­pec­ta­tions. She fur­ther em­pha­sised the school’s con­tin­ued ded­i­ca­tion to ac­knowl­edg­ing and ho­n­our­ing its high­est-achiev­ing pupils.

In ad­di­tion to the SEA awards, stu­dents across dif­fer­ent grade lev­els, from First Year to Stan­dard Four, were recog­nised in three cat­e­gories: top per­former, most im­proved, and most dis­ci­plined. Mo­hammed com­mend­ed the TML Board and the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion for sup­port­ing the school’s com­mit­ment to fos­ter­ing holis­tic de­vel­op­ment and aca­d­e­m­ic ex­cel­lence.

In the 2022 SEA ex­ams, TML San Fer­nan­do Pri­ma­ry School had three pupils plac­ing among the top eight na­tion­al­ly.

“This track record of suc­cess fur­ther so­lid­i­fies the school’s rep­u­ta­tion as a lead­ing ed­u­ca­tion­al in­sti­tu­tion,” she added.

She not­ed that the recog­ni­tion and cel­e­bra­tion of the out­stand­ing achieve­ments of these young schol­ars serve as an in­spi­ra­tion to their peers and demon­strate the school’s com­mit­ment to nur­tur­ing aca­d­e­m­ic ex­cel­lence.

The school’s teach­ers al­so re­ceived awards for their con­tri­bu­tion to the school.