The pupils and teach­ers of Rose Hill RC Pri­ma­ry School in Laven­tille re­turned to class­es this morn­ing for the first time since the school was tem­porar­i­ly shut-down fol­low­ing a shoot­ing in­ci­dent last week Mon­day.

The chil­dren had a meet­ing with the school's prin­ci­pal Char­lene Quam­i­na be­fore they re­turned to their re­spec­tive class­es.

They al­so had a prayer ses­sion and as­sem­bly.

Al­so present at the school for to­day's re­open­ing were the CEO of the Catholic Ed­u­ca­tion Board of Man­age­ment (CEBM) Sharon Man­groo, and of­fi­cers from the In­ter-Agency Task Force's Hearts and Minds pro­gramme.

Uni­formed po­lice and sol­diers were al­so sta­tioned out­side the school's com­pound.

Staff and pupils were home since Oc­to­ber 31, fol­low­ing a shoot­ing in­ci­dent be­tween war­ring gangs in which gun­fire was heard echo­ing through the hills of Laven­tille and en­vi­rons.

A two-minute video of the hor­ri­fy­ing and heart-break­ing re­ac­tion by the staff and pupils dur­ing the gun­fire was post­ed to so­cial me­dia. In the record­ing, pupils were seen ly­ing un­der ta­bles, cov­er­ing their eyes and ears as they were qui­et­ed and com­fort­ed by teach­ing staff. The video drew con­dem­na­tion and calls for the se­cu­ri­ty ser­vices to do more.