Student-athlete is more of an American phrase than a Bermudian one, but it does accurately describe the experiences of our young people participating in the variety of interschool competitions held throughout the scholastic year.
And while these even...
Imagine wireless laptops on school desks, 3D projectors and whiteboards that respond, and you are looking at the dream of the future classroom. In reality it isn't far beyond what already exists in schools today.
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The Ministry of Education, Sports and Recreation offers a variety of After-School Programmes (ASP) for primary school aged children througohut the community. ASPs operate during the school year from Monday to Friday from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
In these ...
Every week across the Island, hundreds of school children open their copies of The Royal Gazette and listen as their teachers ask them questions about a particular article. This is Newspapers in Education (NIE) in action and The Royal Gazette's Trici...
When Bermuda's education system was finally integrated in the 1960s there was at least one school which needed no prompting, legislative or otherwise.
The Berkeley Institute, under the direction of the Berkeley Educational Society (the Society), has ...
Janel Allen is laughing quietly, almost to herself, as she recalls the past 13 years as a teacher. There is a childlike sparkle in her eyes, seen in so many of the youngsters who have passed through her classroom, and it's easy to see why she's Bermu...
All Bermuda school children, from Primary through Secondary, are required to wear school uniforms. According to various sources, including the Ministry of Education, the benefits of the uniform standard include:
1. Reduced peer pressure and competiti...
Below Darnell Wynn the education officer, reading explains some of the ways parents can help their children to read using some principles of the Reading Recovery Programme.
Critical thinkers as we read . . .
Parents can interrupt reading by making i...
The Ross 'Blackie' Talbot Charity Classic (RBTCC) yesterday awarded students a total of $130,000 in scholarships.
There were 14 Bermudian students who won the awards, which ranged from $5,000 to $15,000.
The 2008 awards were granted to nine students ...
If you, like so many others, have not stepped inside a school classroom in the last decade you might mistake today's modern classroom for a science fiction lab.
Gone are the days of a chalkboard; in fact gone are the days of a standard whiteboard wit...
