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Members of the St David’s community rallied together last night to object to the potential closure of their primary school. Parents, staff, former and current students attended St David’s Primary School to discuss the school reorganisation (Score) r...

St David’s Primary School plays a vital role in a close-knit and historically self-contained community that should not be lost, according to former pupils. Russell Richardson, whose grandfather was former principal Hilton C. Richardson, described the...

The number of students transferring out of public schools is increasing year-on-year, according to recently released figures. Transfers of both primary and middle school students have been rising since 2012, said Minister of Education Wayne Scott, in...

The community surrounding Heron Bay Primary School would be negatively affected if the school were to close as proposed in the Bermuda Government’s school reorganisation plan. This is the view of principal Lisa Swan, who said the school enjoys about ...

The Bermuda Union of Teachers has implored education minister Wayne Scott to address “blind spots” in the school reorganisation (Score) report which it says lacks detail on a plan of action. The union also criticised the minister for releasing the re...

Staff at two Hamilton guesthouses were treated to a random act of kindness yesterday as preschoolers showered them with Valentine cards. Children from the Bermuda Montessori School visited neighbouring Royal Palms Hotel and Edgehill Guest Manor, bea...

West Pembroke Primary Eco-Club met on Monday at lunchtime. Present at the meeting was Abbie Caldas, Greenrock’s schools programme manager, and Sylvia Hayward, community member assessor for Greenrock. About 20 students and their Eco-Club co-ordinato...

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children” — Navajo proverb An international programme from the Foundation for Environmental Education, the Eco-Schools initiative aims to empower students to be the change our su...

Abbie Caldas, the schools programme manager for Greenrock, invited Young Observer to join her at West Pembroke Primary School to learn about what it means and why schools are striving to become Eco-Schools in Bermuda. In its 20th year around the wor...

Staff and PTA executives at Gilbert Institute are holding an emergency meeting to come up with an action plan they hope will save the school from closure. The Paget school is the island’s only one that provides services for the deaf and hard-of-hear...

Dani Buglione had good grades in school but struggled to express herself outside of class. Then she discovered acting. “It was like this whole different world opened up to me,” the 14-year-old Saltus Grammar School student said. “One of my first part...

The charity Tomorrow’s Voices is hosting a workshop next week as it raises awareness of autism spectrum disorders and developmental disabilities. The event, “Skill generalisation — what does that really mean?”, will provide strategies and tactics to ...