British schools.

Alaina Cubbon, a year 12 student at the Bermuda High School for Girls, excelled in three sixth form scholarship exams at Canford, Cheltenham College and Cheltenham Ladies College, the school on which BHS was modelled 105 years ago.

Asked how coming out on top felt, Alaina said: "I was really shocked when we got the first call. I didn't expect it at all and we certainly didn't think it would happen three times.'' Her parents added they were "immensely proud'' of her.

"Alaina has attended BHS since she was five years old,'' explained her mother Sue, "and this remarkable achievement tells us that the very high standard of education, as well as motivation, at Bermuda High School can take our students right to the top internationally.'' "We've always encouraged both Alaina and her sister Lindsey to be the best that they can be so that they will never have any regrets.'' "They are all excellent schools and after her excellent start at BHS we're sure that she will do well at any one of them,'' Mrs. Cubbon said, referring to the British colleges where her daughter sat the exams. "The most important thing is for her to be happy.'' BHS's primary librarian Lynn Furtado said: "Interestingly, Alaina sat two of her exams in traditionally male-dominated subjects -- Physics and Maths -- and in winning the scholarship over students from co-educational facilities, she illustrates the importance of BHS' commitment to singe-sex education for girls.'' And BHS headmistress Eleanor Kingsbury called Alaina's results "an extraordinary accomplishment''.

"We are tremendously proud of Alaina,'' Mrs. Kingsbury said. "Her achievement serves as an illustration that BHS is realising its commitment to educating our students to the highest international standards.'' Alaina Cubbon