Prayer Day for Form Four Students

Before the Kenya Comprehensive of Secondary Student exam is taken, a Prayer Day is held. Parents and well wishes are invited to attend. A mass is said for student success and the rest of the day is spend with students visiting with their families. We held mass in our unfinished dining hall. It was packed. I'm guessing there were 800+ people attending for our 154 candidates.

Students are dancing into the dining hall for mass.

Charity is our class prefect. She is in charge of student discipline, record keeping and any other tasks the teachers would like her to complete. Each prefect spoke for a few minutes encouraging fellow students to do well on the exam.

I was asked to speak on behalf of the Form Four class teachers.

Parents bring new items for the students to use when taking the exam: pens, rulers, clipboards, geometric sets, etc. The priest blesses them at the end of mass.

Afterwards, parents and students share the food they have brought enjoying the company of one another.