Priscilla is a sharp, bright and confident girl who lives in the village behind our office and craft workshop. She comes from a large family and has four brothers; she herself is a twin and there are two more younger girls in the family making it a total of eight children.Her father has a job but it is not well paid and he struggles with having 5 children all in secondary level education.
Both Priscilla and her twin, Phebby attended Uyoba Community School and last year sat her Certificate of Primary Education exams.Unfortunately Phebby did not do quite as well as her sister who scored an aggregate score of 720. Here are her results:
Grade 7 | ||
Priscilla Mtonga | Marks | Grade |
English | 118 | 1 |
Social Studies | 114 | 2 |
Mathematics | 115 | 1 |
Intergrated Science | 117 | 1 |
Zambian Language | 125 | 1 |
Special Paper I | 121 | 1 |
Special paper II | 112 | 2 |
CTS | 127 | 1 |
Marks & av % | 949 | |
Aggregate (best 6 inc Eng) | 720 |
Priscilla has been offered a place at Katete Boarding School for Girls, an excellent school but many kilometres from Mfuwe.