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A renowned clinician and educator will return to the island next week to speak about race and trauma.
Kenneth Hardy, a professor of family therapy at Drexel University in Philadelphia, is being brought back to the island by the Family Centre.
While o...
DATE: Oct 19, 2017
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Friends of Hospice is continuing the conversation on death and dying with a community event this weekend.
The final activity of World Hospice and Palliative Care Week will feature a panel discussion and activities for participants.
Friends of Hospi...
DATE: Oct 19, 2017
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Health
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News Staff
An international travel conference is set to be held on the island in what the Bermuda Tourism Authority described as a “double win”.
The 32nd Educational Travel Consortium Signature Conference is expected to bring more than 400 travel planners and t...
DATE: Oct 19, 2017
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Bermuda Union of Teachers has invited one of the original Freedom Writers — a group of teenagers disillusioned after the LA riots in 1992 — to be a keynote speaker at an education conference that starts today.
Manny Scott — who found hope through...
DATE: Oct 19, 2017
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Sarah Lagan
An American country singer has donated two acoustic guitars to CedarBridge Academy to help introduce students to music.
Jessica Lynn, who performed at the Bermuda Festival earlier this year, visited the school as part of a student outreach programme....
DATE: Oct 19, 2017
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Students attending Paget Primary school’s autism department have learnt how to “trust the unknown” through the Endeavour’s education-through-sailing programme.
According to Freda Trimm, special aid teacher at the school, the students were taught how ...
DATE: Oct 18, 2017
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A group of Saltus Grammar School students have travelled to Canada to look at potential universities.
The annual trip by senior year students is aimed at helping help them explore different options for further education.
They left Bermuda on Saturday...
DATE: Oct 18, 2017
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Education
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A programme designed to promote phonological skills in preschoolers is having a positive impact, according to a new report.
The Reading Clinic’s I-PLAY (Interactive Phonological Literacy Activities for Youngsters) programme, which operates in four p...
DATE: Oct 18, 2017
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Education
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News Staff
Governor, John Rankin, has fired Freddie Evans from his position as education commissioner, it was confirmed yesterday.
But Dr Evans’s lawyer Mark Diel said his sacking came too late to be valid and that the battle would now end up in the courts for ...
DATE: Oct 17, 2017
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
CedarBridge Academy is to host a “Big Time Banquet” at the Hamilton Princess & Beach Club this month in anticipation of its 20th anniversary in November.
All students and teachers, past and present, are invited to come together and celebrate “20 year...
DATE: Oct 17, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan