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Last week Young Observer met with the Student Lighthouse Team at Francis Patton Primary. The school has adopted and implemented the Leader In Me principles since 2011. These principles support the teaching of Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Ef...

Student leaders at Francis Patton Primary School are preparing to visit two Lighthouse Schools in New Jersey. The students shared their hopes for the trip with us. Kyzori Smith (Head Leader) Age: 10 “I am preparing for the trip by brainstorming idea...

Michael Wynn grew up in poverty on Chicago’s South Side. No one in his family had graduated from college and the odds were stacked against him doing so either: the dropout rate at his high school was nearly 90 per cent; only 15 of the 500 students w...

On January 12, the Year 10 GCSE PE class at BHS had the privilege of having two female sailors, Annie Lush and Sally Barkow come to talk to us about what they do and how they incorporate the things we are learning about in class to a real athlete’s l...

Shirley Hardy’s motto is simple: eat in moderation and keep your body moving. It’s advice the 73-year-old yoga and Pilates instructor regularly shares with clients at her Warwick studio. Years ago she lost a lot of weight in order to fit into a speci...

Imagine spending an eight-hour flight with an angry cat on your lap. Sara Graham learnt a lot when she moved from Canada to the Czech Republic in 2014. Lesson one: find a safe way to sedate your animal. Both Ms Graham and her cat would’ve been a lot ...

Russell Butler is an artist through and through. By day, he is inside the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art helping with exhibitions there; in his spare time he is part of the city’s underground scene, performing his unique brand of techno music. “T...

Dear Heather, Our children are all grown up and have their own lives. We are still living in our family home, but find the upkeep on the house and the garden very tiring and expensive, and we have rooms we don’t even use. We are starting to think we...

Lucille Harris’s only request for her 90th birthday was to go dancing. She assumed her family had forgotten when November 14 rolled around and the only invite she got was a lunch date with her granddaughter, Bianca. “We went to the restaurant and I h...

This three-bedroom condominium is part of the Shelly Hall development. Swimming pools, tennis courts and lots of open space for play make it a dream buy for young families. Inside, there are wooden floors, exposed beams and a modern kitchen. My Berm...