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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...

Three meetings will be held by Wayne Scott, the Minister of Education, on the issue of school reorganisation, the Ministry announced this afternoon. “All stakeholders, including parents, educators and community members are invited to attend to learn ...

A public meeting has been called in St David’s to rally opposition to the potential closure of the primary school. The event, in the school’s assembly hall on Monday at 6.30pm, is in response to an announcement from education minister Wayne Scott tha...

The financial viability of reorganising the island’s primary school system remains unknown as the Bermuda Government-commissioned Score report indicates it was “unable to make an assessment of potential cost savings”. According to the school reorgan...

Four primary schools could face closure as part of the Bermuda Government’s School Reorganisation (Score) Plan but no decisions have yet been made. Parents and teachers yesterday voiced concerns over the possible closures of Gilbert Institute, Prospe...

East All-Stars 0 West All-Stars 0 Quinaceo Hunt was the toast of the dressing room after his timely save in sudden death penalties enabled West to retain their Bermuda School Sports Federation senior boys all-star title at the National Sports Centr...

The West retained their Bermuda School Sports Federation senior boys All-Star title after prevailing 7-6 in a penalty shootout with their rivals from the East at the National Stadium last night. Both teams remained scoreless at the end of regulation ...