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TN Tatem Middle School is closed today but the Bermuda Government hopes students will be back to school tomorrow.
The Ministry of Education said it had created a plan for a temporary relocation of students and staff while it carries out cleaning and ...
DATE: Dec 05, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The president of the parent-teacher association for TN Tatem Middle School, where teachers this week have staged two protests over the condition of the facility, has called for the school to be relocated for remediation.
Amin Smith, head of the PTA, ...
DATE: Dec 03, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
TN Tatem Middle School is a “sick building”, according to the Bermuda Union of Teachers, which defended staff for their sick-out on Monday.
The union thanked the Government for commissioning a facilities inspection report, but pointed out that it was...
DATE: Dec 02, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Teachers and parents of students attending T.N. Tatem Middle School staged a sit-in protest yesterday after a report claimed that mould in the building posed no immediate threat to health.
Protesters insisted that the school needed to be closed and s...
DATE: Dec 02, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Education minister Wayne Scott has promised facility inspections at each of the island’s public middle schools, after a teacher walkout at T.N. Tatem Middle School this week over mould issues.
The announcement came as a health and safety report foun...
DATE: Nov 30, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Bermuda College is set to launch a weeklong solar panel installation course after 15 students completed a successful pilot class.
Joseph Weeks, co-owner of the company Combined Engineering Technologies, will offer the programme to certified electrici...
DATE: Nov 29, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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Former member of the School Reorganisation Committee, Danielle Riviere, has questioned the extent of structural problems across the island’s middle schools after the closure of T.N. Tatem Middle School yesterday owing to mould issues.
Ms Riviere, wh...
DATE: Nov 29, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The TN Tatem Middle School premises are safe to be occupied, according to a report from the Government health and safety officer.
Wayne Scott, the Minister of Education, said the facilities inspection report concluded that while there was no imminent...
DATE: Nov 29, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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Teachers called in sick en masse yesterday at the T.N. Tatem Middle School as friction escalated over air quality.
The “sick-out”, which is believed to have involved all but two teachers, appeared to take the school by surprise as students came in fo...
DATE: Nov 29, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An information session for parents is to be held on Wednesday of next week on standards-based grading, which is being introduced throughout public schools.
The system, which will be implemented from the primary through senior school levels, is aimed ...
DATE: Nov 23, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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