Woodlark Junior High sit for first grade 10 written expression exam

Friday, 7 June 2024, 3:46 pm

Marking the occasion, a pioneer student screen printed this for memory- Woodlark Junior High School, MBP (NBC News: Priscilla Waikaidi)

Pioneering 74 students at the new Woodlark Junior High School in Milne Bay Province joined thousands of others yesterday [Thursday] to sit their first written expression exams on the Island. They were the first of three junior high schools to do so.


Under the Government's Education vision to leave no one behind, the junior high school concepts were birthed and Woodlark Junior High School, formerly Kulumadau Primary Schoola is now accepting.


74 of its first intake Grade 9 last year, now grade 10, joined the rest of PNG in the milestone first national exam paper for the school on Thursday.


Invigilator Linda Saiyam said she was privileged to be a part of the school's grand moment and encouraged they only keep going from here on.

Impressed exam invigilator Linda Saiyam after the exams- Woodlark Junior High School (NBC News: Priscilla Waikaidi)


Woodlark Junior High School is one of three others identified for now, under the Wesley-Metoa Government to take in Grades 9 and 10- the others include Yeleyamba Junior High School who took in their first lot of Grades 9 this year and Daga Junior High who have yet to recruit intakes.

Relieved students coming out of the exam room, Woodlark Junior High School (NBC News: Priscilla Waikaidi)