BHS won the School Prize for the End2End fundraiser which took place in May. For the first time ever, BHS submitted entries as a school, and had the most entries and raised the most money! BHS was awarded a cheque for $5,000 which will go towards purchasing new sports team uniforms.
Gabrielle Turchiario ’24 and Leahnae Morton Richardson ’24 placed 2nd and Vikashni Ragunathan ‘25 was highly commended, in the 2019 Bermuda Youth Library Teen Advisory Board Poetry Competition.
Y8 students attended the 60th anniversary of the Theatre Boycott, a protest which marked the beginning of the end of segregation in Bermuda. The celebration highlighted the various efforts made to bring about change peacefully including the Bermuda Suffragettes movement which started in 1919 in Bermuda. Eliana Kirkos, Amelie Kempe, Vintage Lightbourne Thomas and Ava Moreno recreated a suffragette placard to display at the event and spoke of its importance.
EYP students spent the second to last week of school watching chicks hatch in Curling Cottage.
In the lead up to World Blood Donor Day, Secondary students worked to raise awareness at BHS for the Give and Let Live project. They also welcomed representatives from the KEMH Blood Bank who gave an assembly on the importance of giving blood.
Y1 students were visited by Bermuda Police Service officers who demonstrated the big fire crane and introduced them to a police dog. The girls especially loved seeing the female officers arrive on the motorcycles.
BHS STEAM Week included 17
exciting projects for Secondary students including: building solar powered go- karts from scratch; designing a dog training obstacle course; investigating Sea Turtle sustainability; molecular gastronomy and; a Bluebird Box project. The girls used kits from The Happy Bird Co., designed by alumnus Christin Chin- Gurret ’16, to build boxes which they installed around campus. Students from the Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School in Atlanta took part in STEAM Week, a reciprocal arrangement after ten BHS students visited Atlanta in February to take part in STEAM activites.
Mrs Gretta O’Kelly Lynch (University Admissions Counsellor) and Ms Tina Harris (Head of Primary) retired at the end of June. Collectively, they gave an amazing 57 years of service to BHS. Thank you!
BHS entered the Kurt Hahn Award for the first time this year and is very proud of the five members of the Panelled Squared Team for their solar panel sustainability project. Although they did not receive the overall global award, the IB2 team of Isabella Wright, Madison Quig, Lauren Mendes, Grace McNamara and Léa Grandisson reached the finals and received commendation certificates.
SUMMER
25 students from BHS, The Berkeley Institute and Cedarbridge Academy took part in the SHE LEADS: A Real World Readiness Programme organised by BHS and HSBC in the first week of July. They worked together for a week learning tools, skill sets and mindsets needed for education, employment and beyond under the guidance of BHS alumna, Christie Hunter-Arscott ‘01 who is a strategic advisor on gender issues.
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