I have had a few students contacting me and asking me what they should do about SE02 MakeUp Exams on Friday if they are COVID-19 positive and still in isolation.

This is my response.

I am arranging ANOTHER MakeUp Exam session 10 days from Saturday 05FEB2022 on Tuesday 15FEB2022 at 3:30 pm.

If you are COVID-19 positive and still in your 10-day isolation period OR you are self-isolating because a member of your household is COVID-19 positive (Mum, Dad, brother, sister …), the following applies to you.

1. You can MOVE your SE02 MakeUp Exams to Tuesday 15FEB2022
2. In order to do that, you need to provide a picture of a COVID-19 positive test result dated LESS than 10 days away from Saturday 05FEB2022, that means dated on or AFTER Wednesday 19JAN2022. Send the pic via WhatsApp to 71 183 559 BEFORE noon tomorrow, Thursday 03FEB2022. They will send you a confirmation message that your SE02 MakeUp Exams have been delayed until Tuesday 15FEB2022. NOTE : You cannot delay your MakeUp Exams for ANY OTHER reason. If it is a report for a sibling or a parent or a relative that lives in your house, you need to write on the report (Before you take a picture of it) the relationship to the person tested positive. An example would be : “Mr. Elie Bloggs is my Dad”
3. UNREGISTER from all MakeUp Exams this session on LESSON. If you forget to do this, you will be expected to attend this coming Friday or Saturday, (WHATEVER picture you send to 71 183 559 by noon tomorrow, Thursday 03FEB2022) and will promptly receive a ZERO if you do not attend on Friday or Saturday. This part is VERY important.

In response to requests to have the SE02 Makeup exams spread out over a full day on Saturday instead of squashed into five hours on a Friday evening, this is what I have decided.

Students can do ALL their exams either on Friday OR on Saturday

They CANNOT do some exams on Friday and others on Saturday. Either ALL on Friday or ALL on Saturday

The timetable on Saturday will be a normal exam day timetable, lasting from 8:00 am until 3:30 pm if you have 6 exams, 2:30 pm if you have five exams.

You do NOT need to tell me which day you will be doing the exams on. All exams will be available for the Friday afternoon session.

IF you do NOT turn up on Friday, I will assume that you are coming on Saturday and your papers will be available at 8:00 am on Saturday.

As always, if you are LATE (after 3:30 pm on Friday, after 8:00 am on Saturday) you will not be allowed to enter the exam room at all for any exams.

The deadline for SE02 MakeUp Exam registration is midnight today, Wednesday 02FEB2022.

If you have any problems, please email me [steve@lesbg.com] with the subject “MakeUp Registration problems” and explain the problem and I will try to deal with them before the end of the day today.

The email subject “MakeUp Registration problems” is VERY important.

Further to the announcement from the Minister of Education, the school will be closed tomorrow, Wednesday 02FEB2022.

Students of the Senior Department should use the day as a study day for the makeup exams on Friday.

Due to the inclement weather forecast for tomorrow and the fact that we had a huge number of students absent today throughout the school, we will be closed tomorrow, Thursday 27Jan2022.