Various modes of transport used to deliver our tourists to and around the Island will be highlighted by Devonshire pre-school as part of Education Month. According to Susan Fox, assistant teacher at the Devonshire school, the idea is to make students aware of the history and various methods of transport utilised by tourists. "We're working on transport in tourism,'' she explained, "and as part of that, each class is doing one of the modes of transport as it pertains to tourism such as airplanes, ferry, cruise ships, taxi, bus, horse and buggy.'' Miss Fox said that each of the school's five classes would be investigating one form of transport on which they would subsequently mount a display chronicling its development. She added that the process would be made more relevant to the children as their favourite songs were adapted to focus on that particular means of transportation. For example, at the ceremony marking the beginning of Education Month, the students sang `The Wheels of the Bus Go 'Round and 'Round', changing the vehicle as applicable as they moved about the Cabinet Office grounds dressed as the various modes of transportation. "We're looking at how tourists come to Bermuda and how they tour the Island,'' she added. "The only things we're not looking at are auxiliary cycles. Instead, we're focusing on air, land and sea.

The first airplanes that came to Bermuda didn't land on the Island, but landed in the water at Darrell's Island. Now they land at Kindley Field. So they've learned about that and also done painted mobiles as a display. "For the bus, they're looking at tickets and tokens and the whole process of getting off and on the bus. They're even examining the colours of the bus -- pink and blue, which you don't usually see on buses anywhere else, and how the bus stops are made with Bermuda stone. We're also looking at the horse and buggy -- one of the first modes of transport on the Island, and for the cruise ships, we're making captain's hats with anchors on them. They're all quite young but it will hopefully make them more aware of what a tourist is and teach them a bit about the industry.'' PHOTO Members of Devonshire Pre-school and their bus made to highlight that form of visitor transport. The horse and buggy was another form of transport highlighted by Devonshire Pre-school students.

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