Transportation Board have introduced a new bus timetable that will specifically cater to the needs of students.

The Special School Bus Schedule -- which will come into full effect from Monday -- indicates 35 different routes which will transport students to and from 16 schools.

Five new middle schools, both of the senior schools, ten primary schools, and two private schools will be directly served by these special buses in the morning and afternoon of each school day.

The primary schools will receive two special buses traveling to and from Somerset and Hamilton twice daily.

Purvis Primary and Harrington Sound will be the only exceptions to this rule.

They will be provided with four daily buses, each following two different routes.

The middle schools, excluding Dellwood, will also be provided with selective buses before and after school.

Sandys Middle School will receive buses following routes to and from Hamilton along both South Shore Road and Middle Road.

Whitney Institute will be equipped with one special bus travelling to and from Hamilton.

And both the Clearwater and Spice Valley middle schools will be catered to by four buses travelling separate routes between Somerset and St. George's.

The Island's new senior schools -- CedarBridge Academy and Berkeley Institute -- will receive a combined total of ten designated buses which will pick up and drop off students along routes stretching from Somerset to St. George's.

CedarBridge will obtain eight of these buses and Berkeley will acquire two.

The buses will visit the schools twice daily.

Several of the special buses will pick up students from Warwick Academy and Saltus in the afternoon.

In addition to the special buses, some regularly scheduled buses will make diversions from their typical routes in order to travel past the schools each morning and afternoon.

Port Royal Primary, Southampton Glebe and Bermuda Institute -- which will not be directly visited by the new special buses -- will, however, receive the detoured services from the regularly scheduled buses.

In response to the new schedule, National PTA president Anthony Steede said: "I'm very happy about it. I appreciate that a lot of work and planning went into it.

"We (the NPTA) will monitor the schedule and if it needs moderations we will request it. But hopefully everything will run smoothly.''