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The secretary general of the Bermuda Union of Teachers anticipates concerns about school mergers because of the sheer number of children who would be attending. Mike Charles spoke out after it was announced that St John’s Preschool will be amalgamat...

Toddlers at Stepping Stones Nursery and Preschool have been turning trash into art as part of an initiative to improve how the environment is treated in Bermuda. Stepping Stones is aiming to become the first preschool on the Island to earn the inter...

Parents concerned about the possible closure of schools due to declining enrolment reacted with surprise at the inclusion of three-year-old students in the public school system mandate. “My bank account would be about $15,000 richer,” had she known h...

Many parents are sceptical that a decision has not already been made to reorganise public schools — but Education Minister Wayne Scott last night reiterated that no definitive plans had been drawn up. At the close of a third and final public meeting ...

Mount Saint Agnes Academy announces its decision to implement the Reggio Emilia-inspired early learning programme for four-year-olds in September 2015. Speaking of the announcement, Sue Moench, the MSA principal, said: “It has been a vision of ours f...

A “fantastic” environmental initiative is flourishing at the Stepping Stones Preschool, one of ten local schools aiming to get certified under the international Eco-Schools Accreditation Programme. As the first preschool to get involved, Stepping Sto...

On Monday night Season’s Learning Centre hosted an Auction. The theme was Out of Africa. The Head Teacher Joelle Williams explained to us: “every year we do an art collection … each child has to complete four pieces for the auction.” The school stude...

Young Observer visited Kingdom Academy on Tuesday to meet with students who had been inspired by an article in The Royal Gazette on January 20th to attend the Customs Open Day. Kingdom Academy is a small home school located at PCC on North Shore. I...

A lot has changed since Victoria Fisher Cunningham first set up her nursery school, Bright Beginnings. Her clientele has changed from mainly expatriates, to mainly Bermudian. The little nursery school in the church hall at St Mark’s Church will begin...

When Judith Welch was pregnant with her first child, Justin, she and her husband James started to look around for nursery schools. What they found was a frustrating lack of standards and amenities in local child care offerings. Out of the search was ...

The founders of the original Boaz Island Nursery School (BINS) are looking to reunite with some of their old students. The idea is to share some of their happy memories from the 1970s and 1980s. A reunion is being organised for later this month by fo...