Students in a Cork school allowed to sit exams at home due to poor weather

Parents and guardians have been asked to "ensure supervision and examination style conditions".

Plenty of students from schools that have been forced to close throughout the country will be out enjoying themselves in the snow or putting their feet up in front of the fire today. We’re not jealous, we’re not jealous at all. It’s a different story for some students in a school in Cork, however, for while they will be spending the day at home, they’ll be sitting exams that they had been due to sit in the school before it was forced to close. Examination students at Hewitt College, a private school in Shandon in Cork city, will be emailed their exams to be taken at home after the decision was taken to close the school due to hazardous footpaths and roads and disruption to water services. The college is reaching out to parents and guardians of examination students “to ensure supervision and examination style conditions” and said that it will “attach instructions regarding same,” which, we would assume, is to basically ensure said students aren’t availing of assistance they wouldn't usually be able to avail of in an examination setting. The school said that it will continue to email the examinations to be sat from home should the weather conditions worsen over the course of the week. We're sure if exam results happen to happen to be sky-high this week, it will be a complete coincidence.