Reading. The Senior School teams placed 5th and 6th, with Leahnae Morton Richardson ‘21 placing 6th overall. She also took home 2nd place for her Dramatic Interpretation. In the Radio Newscast, Hailey Young ‘22 came in 2nd and Gen Lau ‘21 came in 3rd. For the After-Dinner speeches Gen Lau took home another 3rd and Allie Riihilouma ‘21 placed 4th.
BHS celebrated Literacy Week with a variety of school-wide events including World Book Day on March 1, when staff and students came to school dressed as their favourite book characters. In the Primary School, each day of Literacy Week was themed, with surprise guest readers from the community reading to the girls.
Students were very fortunate to hear stories read aloud by His Excellency, The Governor, John Rankin; Minister of National Security, Wayne Caines; the US Consul General, Mary-Ellen Koenig; Shadow Minister of National Security, Jeff Baron; local chef, Teneika Eve; local author, Nadia Aguiar; Bermudian Olympic diver Katura Horton-Perenchief; Police Commissioner Michael DeSilva; Chief Inspector Na’imah Astwood; and author and Police Media Relations Manager, Dwayne Caines.
Congratulations to all the students nominated by BHS staff and their coaches for the Outstanding Teen Awards. Students who won overall awards were: Head Student, Brianna Correia ‘18 (right) - Outstanding Overall Special Recognition for academics, leadership, community service, the arts or sports; Karina Forth ‘18 (left) - Outstanding in the Performing Arts, specifically dance; Sion Symonds ‘18 (centre) - Outstanding in the Visual Arts.
Two BHS teams took part in the annual Sloop Foundation Fundraiser. Primary staff, Shanna Lee Kerr, Nicole Carter, Lauren Botelho, Stephanie Cordeiro and Melissa Franklin formed one team and Team #LikeaGirl was comprised of Secondary staff Paula Harrison, Addy Osset and Sarah Wheddon. 100% of funds raised go towards BHS voyages on the Spirit of Bermuda and the two teams raised over $4000!
International Women’s Day (IWD) was celebrated throughout the school on or around March 8. Primary students spent the day learning about inspirational women and Y5 students attended the IWD celebrations and march at City Hall with Head of School, Linda Parker. Secondary students spent the week discussing the #PressforProgress
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In the Secondary School, students hosted a “Battle of the Books” with the four final entries being Wonder, The Hunger Games, A Wrinkle in Time and The Book Thief. Middle School students chose Wonder while The Hunger Games won in the 14-plus category.
Throughout the school, students participated in book swaps and created book posters. Secondary Librarian, Lynn Furtado ‘82, with help from students and much to the delight of both students and staff, transformed the library into Hogwarts, complete with moving pictures from the The Daily Prophet.
BHS also partnered with the Bookmart at Brown & Co. for the first BHS Book Fair, which was successful in helping us re-stock our Primary and Secondary library with new books.
movement, culminating in alumna Clare O’Connor ’99 joining them via Google Hangout in an assembly. Clare spoke to the students about her career to date, interviewing women entrepreneurs for Forbes and her new job creating media content for
Bumble.com.
The annual Science Olympics at MSA on Saturday, March 17 saw BHS students competing in four events including building pasta bridges, Science trivia, building duct tape tables, and even an Escape Room!
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