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This picture shows a first year SSS1 physics class underway in the science lab. This picture was taken in 1995 and since then, all the labs have benefitted from refurbishment under the Science Resource Centres program. Classes in all subjects start early at around 7am and finish by 1pm thus avoiding the hotest part of the day. Even so, by 10 or 11 in the morning, the temperature inside the rooms can reach well above 30C during the dry season, since the only ventilation is afforded naturally though louvred windows. Things were made worse whilst I was at Law Sec as many of the ceiling tiles had fallen down exposing the silvered radiating surface of the corrugated iron roofing sheets.
As science is one of the more popular subjects, classes tend to be large. This class normally had 44 students. Obviously with this sort of number of students, it's impossible to run normal practicals to the whole class at once. Instead I held practicals during afternnon and evening times for smaller groups of upto a dozen students, although this would require the same experiment to be repeated many times limiting the number of different pracs we could do within the year.
