Rayna tops North schools

Rayna Chand’s diligence in keeping up to remain top of her class since Year One paid off when she scored the highest mark in the Fiji Eighth Year Examination for the Northern Division.

The 13-year-old head girl of Wainikoro Public School in Macuata scored 485 marks out of 500. It is the first time for WPS to make such achievement.

Her marks are English 97, Mathematics 94, Basic Science 100, Healthy Living 97, Social Science 97 and Hindi 88.

She thanked her parents, class teacher, subject teachers and head teacher.

“I feel proud to be the first student at my school to score the highest marks in Vanua Levu,” the Taganikula native said.

“I studied to make my parents proud since my father is an electrician working in Suva my mum, an admin staff in my school, work diligently to provide all my needs.”

The elder sibling to a brother, said she studied late at nights and always woke up at 4am to carry out revision.

“I have always come first in my school since Year One,” the aspiring doctor said.

“Like other students, I also struggled but I never used it as an excuse to achieve my goal.”

Mum, Shareeni Lal said she was proud of her daughter and would be sending her to Labasa College for further education.

WPS head teacher Rajesh Kumar said he was glad and thankful for the support from the Ministry of Education Labasa office, especially divisional education officer Iliseva Volai and senior education officer Dharmendra Dayal for their guidance as they assisted in achieving such result.

“This is the first time we received highest mark in North and us, including the school management, are proud,” Mr Kumar said.

“She was also the school dux this year.”

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