Everyone knows that a great school needs an outstanding head-boy and head-girl, and Saltus Grammar School has both. Saltus' head boy is Jacari Brimmer-Landy and the head-girl is Paige Fisher.

As the head prefects, they have a lot of responsibilities, and they took time out of their busy schedules to talk to the Young Observer.

Paige, who likes working with children, has 'the perfect summer job' as a swim instructor for Aquamania Swimming. During the school year, Paige enjoys classes in psychology and English. In the future, she plans to go to University in the UK to study politics and international relations. When asked what keeps her going every day, Paige replied: "I have to work hard now to achieve what I want in the future."

As head girl, Paige has many responsibilities;, along with doing all her AP courses, she runs one of Saltus' school newspapers, the Saltus Shaker.

She also runs the student council. Some of Paige's out of school activities include being a member of the Bermuda Youth Parliament and a member of Youth Net, a local peer mentoring programme where she helps mentor young children.

Jacari is also a young person with clear aspirations and goals. He plans to attend university in New York City, or in London and he wants to major in business studies.

In school, his favourite subjects are accounting and economics. Some of Jacari's duties as head boy include representing Saltus through speech writing, attending events and ceremonies such as a ceremony in remembrance of two Alumni who perished in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11.

Although these young people have diverse goals for their future, they both chose Saltus to lay their foundations. Paige said that Saltus and especially the SGY (Saltus Graduate Year) program has been amazing at helping her prepare for the future, and especially college.

She explained, "The SGY program really sends the message to the students that University isn't something to mess around with, and that higher education is extremely important if I want to reach my maximum abilities."

Both Jacari and Paige expressed the opinion that one of the highlights of Saltus is that it definitely has more of a community feeling, and that 'everyone knows everyone'.

Because Saltus has a community feeling Paige and Jacari believe that students can develop relationships with their peers and teachers.

She believes that being able to represent Saltus means that she has the opportunity to make sure that Saltus can have a good reputation in the community.

When asked who the most influential people are in her life, Paige replied: "I know it sounds corny, but I'd have to say my parents.

"They have always pushed me to do my best, without putting so much pressure on me that I haven't been able to have a healthy social life as well."

Paige elaborated that the most influential experience was when her mother had a stroke. Paige explained: "It made me realise that you have to give it your all, 100 percent of the time because you never know what may happen next."

Paige's travels have taken her to many places, such as France, Austria, Germany and Canada, but she says that the most fun place that she's ever travelled to would have to have been Universal Studios in Florida, which she visited with her family.

Paige enthused: "I went there for my 16th birthday with my parents, brother and best friend Kelsey, and it was the most amazing trip ever!"

Jacari is obviously a young man on the move. Along with his duties as head boy, he is on the Saltus debate team, which often takes him travelling abroad.

When asked what motivates him, he replied, "I'm really driven by my future opportunities."

Jacari has represented Saltus as a member of the Bermuda Debate Team and travelled to Washington D.C. for the World Schools Debating Championships, where he and his team mates competed against 45 different countries from Argentina to Zimbabwe.

In his earlier years, Jacari Brimmer-Landy was also invited to the U.N. in as part of the Friends Of the United Nations (F.O.U.N.) programme.

When asked what social issues were important to her, Paige replied: "Racism is a major issue to me.

"It affects societies all over the world, and I think that is such a shame that so many people of different races are able to work together and live together peacefully, yet there are still groups who hold on to the prejudice of the past."

Jacari and Paige's advice for future head prefects is to stay involved in your school and in your community, to keep up your grades and to work hard.