City schools report slow resumption

 by DULCIE OREKE
CLASSES resumed yesterday for Port Moresby schools following a day’s suspension on Tuesday.
Port Moresby National High School resumed classes with the Grade 12 end-of-term examinations for 300 students.
Deputy principal Mathew Maito said students turned up for classes on Tuesday but were sent home for security reasons.
Ted Diro Primary School head teacher Hane Charlie said the number of students who attended yesterday’s classes was much lower than the roll of 1,638.
She said parents might have held back their children as they were unsure of the day’s events.
She said this was the last week of the first term and the school would be staging their parent-teacher conferencing tomorrow.
Charlie is confident that teachers will finalise students’ marking, reporting and recording by then.
Only 446 students turned up for classes yesterday out a roll of more than 1,000 at Kila Kila Primary School.
Head teacher Robert Lavaki said because of the poor turnout, afternoon classes were cancelled.
Education secretary Dr Musawe Sinebare yesterday reminded provincial and national institutions that the first term ends tomorrow.
All schools, vocational centres, colleges and primary teachers’ colleges will have a week’s break, starting next Monday until April 20.
Term 2 will have nine weeks, from April 23 to June 22.