{"id":4777,"date":"2020-12-11T04:37:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T02:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lesbg.com\/site\/?p=4777"},"modified":"2020-12-11T04:37:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T02:37:15","slug":"exams-on-12dec-and-19dec2020-cancelled-for-most-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lesbg.com\/site\/blog\/2020\/12\/11\/exams-on-12dec-and-19dec2020-cancelled-for-most-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Exams on 12DEC and 19DEC2020 cancelled for MOST classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel it is VITAL this year that we have proper exams and proper marks to reflect the true ability and standing of our students. I do not want another year like last year. To this end I have mapped out a strategy for the Senior Department that includes FOUR sets of exams between now and the end of June 2021. I have communicated that strategy to the senior students in a video. However, above every strategy the maxim always remains : student and staff safety is paramount.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the fact that 2 of the 3 classes that were due to take online\/inschool exams over the next two Saturdays are self isolating due to COVID-19, I feel taking online only exams will be a waste of time at the moment. Therefore, I am postponing the exams until after the Christmas Break when we can go back to having the students physically present in school.<\/p>\n<p>The ONLY classes for whom exams will continue as normal over the next two Saturdays is 11A and 12A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel it is VITAL this year that we have proper exams and proper marks to reflect the true ability and standing of our students. I do not want another year like last year. To this end I have mapped out a strategy for the Senior Department that includes FOUR sets of exams between now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p77U8Y-1f3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lesbg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lesbg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lesbg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesbg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesbg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesbg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4779,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesbg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions\/4779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lesbg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesbg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesbg.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}