1 February2008
All 30 of our students passed their exams to get into Grade 9! They have done so well that 22 have been offered boarding school places. Only a few have taken them though, as they need to provide a lot of equipment as well as the fees and uniform. They have to take a shovel and hoe because the students grow their own! Some extended families will club together for the kudos of having a child at boarding school.
On the other hand we are getting repeated requests to have boarding students at The King’s School because our results are so consistently good.
There have been murmurings that our students must have cheated or we helped them but fortunately all the exams have been taken at Mukombwe government school and they confirmed that we didn’t even invigilate the exams and no cheating could possibly have taken place. It shows the benefits of all the hard work the students have put in, plus learning English from the age of four!