The third term of the 2014-2015 academic year which is deemed shortest term went effective yesterday April 20, 2015.

Determination, concentration, discipline and organisation are the watch words as students in most secondary schools in Yaounde, yesterday April 20, 2015 began the third and shortest term of the academic year which ends with the writing of promotion and end-of-course examinations.

While visiting some secondary schools in Yaounde, Cameroon Tribune (CT) observed serenity in all the school campuses we went to as well as students effectively undertaking lessons in their various classrooms.

At 9:00 a.m. in Government High School, Nsam-Efoulan neighbourhood in Yaounde, CT noticed that the majority of students and teachers were present at the school campus.

A discipline master was seen shouting, “I do not want to see any student outside. Go into your classroom”. While French lectures were taking place at Form Five Arts, Mathematics studies and Spanish course was on-going at the different Upper Sixth Arts classrooms while students at Upper Sixth Science were undertaking English lessons.

The English teacher, Mrs Efeme Florence Nkeng said she was revising the fifth sequence examination paper with students so that they could see where they went wrong and how they can improve in up-coming examinations.

One of the Principals at Government High School, Nsam-Efoulan, Mrs Marguerite Negogue, said the term started-off smoothly with the usual Monday morning general assembly of students and teachers alongside the reading of the “news” which focused on the stakes and challenges of the term which is short and decisive. While insisting on discipline, Marguerite Negogue said the term has been placed under the slogan “Operation 100 per cent.”

During the general assembly students were encouraged to get to work immediately because there was no time to play around especially as the term will end in less than three weeks with the writing of public examinations.

At College Vogt in the Mvolye neighbourhood, the Principal, Pierre Jean Hervé said the school term is as normal as others with effective lessons that began at 8:00 a.m. after the Monday general assembly. Given that this is a term with examinations very close, the Principal said Vogt students are more than ever motivated to work.

The Principal said students have been urged to work hard and organise themselves while according enough time to study alone, sleep and relax. He urged students and parents to pay attention against “the internet, telephone and TV” because they are major elements that distract students.

At the Government Girl’s Technical College in Yaounde, the situation was not different as students and teachers revealed signs of seriousness to embrace the school term