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The majority of public schools will be open to in-classroom learning by the end of the week, the Premier has announced.
At last night’s press conference, David Burt said that 30 of the island’s 36 public schools had reached the 80 per cent parental c...
DATE: Oct 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Pupils from three more schools went back to their classrooms today as remote learning is gradually phased out.
Victor Scott Primary, Prospect Primary and Purvis Primary, opened for the first time since last month.
Yesterday Gilbert Institute, Port Ro...
DATE: Oct 12, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Health workers in the front line fight against the coronavirus pandemic received a welcome shot in the arm last week.
Bermuda High School students wanted to show their appreciation for the hard-working medics, and so put their cooking skills to the t...
DATE: Sep 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A new pressure group yesterday questioned Covid public safety policies that affect schoolchildren – including an insistence on masks in classrooms.
Us For Them Bermuda was set up last week to give children “a voice” and ensure that “their interests a...
DATE: Sep 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A project developer to draw up a plan for the shake-up of the island’s school system is being looked for by the Government.
A Request For Proposal was published last week that asked consultancy firms to submit “a strategic programme and project devel...
DATE: Sep 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Public schools are to remain off-limits until further notice after a surge in Covid-19 cases, it was confirmed this weekend.
The news came after the Government announced last week that schools would return to remote learning for the first week of ter...
DATE: Sep 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Public schools will hold remote lessons when children go back to school on Thursday in the wake of a surge in Covid-19 cases.
The ruling was made after a meeting of the Education Emergency Measures Committee (EEMC) today.
Diallo Rabain, the education...
DATE: Sep 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Children returning to school next week will have to wear masks throughout the day, according to Covid-19 safety protocols.
Diallo Rabain, the minister of education, outlined the measures that will be required for public school students when the new t...
DATE: Sep 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Youngsters at the island’s two public secondary schools will be taught how to prepare for college – by specially trained senior pupils.
The Mirrors Programme has introduced PeerForward – a course designed to improve college preparedness for children ...
DATE: Aug 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A schoolgirl has scored top marks in an iGCSE exam – aged just 12.
Emily Sperryn-Jones, from Hamilton Parish, sat the exam in Dutch, designed to be taken by 16-year-olds, in May, a month after her birthday.
She learnt last Saturday that she had rec...
DATE: Aug 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan