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children’s children, the collective response was that they would learn by distance. It was
further revealed that those who showed any interest in teaching preferred the primary or
early childhood level.

The Chairman added that he was trying to get Dr. Ogunkola, Director of the School of
Education, Cave Hill Campus to collaborate with Montserrat to train four or five primary
teachers by distance. He was initially working with the college in St. Kitts to make this a
reality but, because Dr Ogunkola was the Head of the Joint Board of Teacher Education
in the Eastern Caribbean he said St. Kitts could not accommodate us, that we had to deal
directly with him. The Chairman noted that although Dr. Ogunkola was slow to respond
he preferred Cave Hill for standardized purposes because to try Jamaica would mean our
teachers doing training specific to that country’s Board of Teacher Education
requirements.

C. 2016 CPEA Report: Mrs. Claudia Skerritt informed the Committee that to date, she had
not received the 2016 CPEA report from CXC. She stated that she was concerned at the
non-arrival of the report because it was essential for her school’s analysis of what was
been done, and to inform intervention for improvement. The Committee heard that the
Local Registrar had repeatedly requested the report from CXC without any success. The
Local Registrar intended to seek the report at an upcoming Local Registrars Meeting in
Barbados at the end of October.

D. Staffing at Lighthouse Community Academy: Regarding the situation with staffing at
Lighthouse Community academy, the principal, Miss Arlene Hogan, reported that a
teacher was now in place for grades four, five and six. In addition, Miss José White,
grade six teacher and CPEA SBA Moderator from the Brades Primary School, would be
meeting with the principal and the teacher to discuss the requirements of CPEA so the
school could write the CPEA exams in 2018. The late acquisition of the teacher last
academic year prevented the school from writing the 2017 CPEA examinations.

E. Update on Recommendations from 2016 Report:

1. On the issue of CXC including the expressive component in the CPEA Language Arts
written examinations, the Local Registrar informed the Committee that the matter had
already been raised with CXC, and CXC was convinced that the present multiple
choice format of the Language Arts final assessment, along with students’ writing
portfolios, provided reliable and valid data on students’ writing ability. She pointed
out that if the bigger territories embraced CPEA and demanded that students wrote a
composition on the day of the examinations, perhaps then, CXC would adhere to the