SCHOOLYARDS across the Corporate Area yesterday were a stark contrast to previous years when excitement among primary school students would be at fever pitch over their secondary school placement results.

The screams of joy and tears of disappointment customary in other years this time were at a distance due to the impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic which forced the closure of schools islandwide in March, leaving education officials to devise novel ways of attributing grades for the second level of the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) exams and presenting students with those grades and placements.

Only one parent from the group gathered at the school was able to view his child's results at the time when the Observer visited yesterday, and he was busy trying to help the other parents to log into the portal.

She said a number of students had been placed at traditional high schools, including Campion, Wolmer's, Calabar, St George's, Kingston College and Excelsior.

So far we are pleased about the student placements; a number of them have been placed at traditional high schools, others have been placed at other schools in the area such as Clan Carthy, Dunoon and Camperdown,” he told the Observer.