Close to 300 grade 12 and grade 10 students at the Tonu secondary school graduated in a ceremony last Thursday.
There were 189 grade 10 students from five classes and 100 grade 12 students from three classes who graduated with flying colours.
This is the first time Tonu secondary school has hosted a graduation before the national examinations.
Students received prizes for both their academic and non academic performances.
The graduation is the fourth for its grade 12 and the 29th for its grade 10. The school was first established as Tonu high school in 1987.
Teaching at the school was disturbed by the Bougainville crisis and managed to resume classes in the mid 1990s.
By 2018, the school was upgraded to secondary status.
Despite its remoteness and challenges in connectivity to the outside world, the school did well in the overall standing of the secondary school performances last year where it was placed 37 out of the 204 secondary schools in the country.
During the graduation students were encouraged to better the school’s results when they sit for the national examination which starts for the grade 10s this week and next week for the grade 12s.
All three constituency members from the Siwai district were present for the important occassion, including Motuna Huiyono Tokonotui Zacharias Nunung, Kopii Kim Suamaru, and Ramu Thomas Pataku.
The special guest of honour was Bougainville education secretary, Joel Nava.