Labasa rural school empowers prefects to drive academic success

Bocalevu Muslim Primary School aims to go a step further and improve its Fiji Year 8 Certificate Examination (FY8CE) results this year.

The rural‑based school aims to achieve a 100 per cent pass rate compared to its 92 per cent result last year.

The Labasa‑based school, with a student roll of 124 students, elected 30 student prefects to lead the charge in achieving this academic target.

School head teacher, Mohammed Gani, said they want to further improve their literacy and numeracy standards to ensure they compete with other urban‑based schools in Labasa.

Newly badged head boy, Joseph Vakacegu, said he was elated with the role entrusted to him because he had worked hard to reach this position after successfully carrying out his responsibility as deputy head boy last year.

Joseph said he wants to lead and ensure that the appointed leaders work in collaboration to maintain discipline and good behaviour among other students.
“I shall inspire students to work smart to achieve class academic targets,” he said.

Joseph said he felt confident about the academic target set by their head teacher, which he believed is possible.

Chief guest at the induction ceremony, Macuata Muslim League Fiji executive officer, Kaiyaz Khan, encouraged student prefects to lead this academic dream.

Mr Khan said student leaders represented a good number of excellent academic performances and that student leaders were looked upon as key to a school's academic greatness.

Joseph emphasised that reducing time on unnecessary activities had to stop and students must prioritise educational growth over others.
Mr Gani said rural‑based schools were bridging the gap with town‑based schools in terms of academic performance.

“We as a school want to see every student walk out of this school with a good pass in their internal and external exams,” he added.