Many prayers were said on the compound of Combermere school and words of advice and encouragement were shouted from its gates by parents as their children walked through them.
That scene developed from around 7:30 a.m as students from Holy Innocents, Belleville Grammar, Hilltop, Hindsbury, Lawrence T. Gay, St Matthews, Rock Christian and Windsor primary schools converged at the Waterford, St Michael school to write the Barbados Secondary schools’ Entrance Examination.
The scene and atmosphere were similar at the Springer Memorial school at Government Hill, where the students of Charles F Broome, Blackman and Gollop and St Giles primary schools gathered.
Some children appeared tense, while others seemed relaxed as they listened to last minute words of advice and guidelines from parents, principals and teachers.Â
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