Torchbearer Fall 2019
Twice Yearly Magazine for Students, Parents and Alumni of The Bermuda High School.
Twice Yearly Magazine for Students, Parents and Alumni of The Bermuda High School.
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Graduates were able to see how far<br />
they have come and younger students<br />
were able to celebrate in the graduates’<br />
achievement.<br />
Y11 GSCE Art students held an Opening<br />
Reception showcasing their portfolios<br />
for family, fellow students and teachers<br />
before the examiner graded their work.<br />
JUNE<br />
The Annual Volunteer Appreciation<br />
Breakfast celebrated all those who<br />
have helped out at BHS with various<br />
endeavours that ensure our students have<br />
a well-rounded educational experience.<br />
Students, staff and parents took part in<br />
the annual You Go Girl! Relay on Front<br />
Street in Hamilton.<br />
in front of the whole of Primary to share<br />
the ways they plan to use their voices to<br />
lead themselves. Samai Dunn ’23 gave<br />
an emotional talk on the impact “The<br />
Hate You Give” had on her.<br />
MAY<br />
EYP-P2 students welcomed their<br />
Grandparents and Grand Guests<br />
to school for a chance to see their<br />
classrooms and have lunch together.<br />
Team Dragon took part in Relay for<br />
Life and rocked the pink #likeagirl shirts<br />
helping to raise money for Bermuda<br />
Cancer and Health.<br />
To celebrate the Global Day of Design,<br />
Y7 students spent a busy day creating,<br />
designing and tinkering to come up with<br />
amazing automation projects, while the<br />
Y8 students investigated 3D scanning<br />
and printing.<br />
The Mini Trebles ensemble performed<br />
Coldplay and Y4 and Y5 students sang<br />
on the steps of City Hall for the World<br />
Asthma Day celebrations organised by<br />
Open Airways.<br />
BHS held its annual Book Fair at the<br />
BookMart at Brown and Co. and restocked<br />
the Primary and Secondary<br />
libraries.<br />
The Aloha Summer Gala raised $85,000<br />
which will allow up to 20 students to<br />
benefit from financial aid at BHS. The<br />
success of the gala was due to the hard<br />
work, dedication and enthusiasm of<br />
many volunteers, who worked on the<br />
event, and to those who supported it by<br />
attending on the night.<br />
Primary students took part in the 4th<br />
annual Graduation Walk to celebrate<br />
the Class of <strong>2019</strong> on their big day. The<br />
BHS’s Secondary musicians filled the<br />
air with music at their Summer Concert.<br />
Performances included Nothing But<br />
Treble, the Mini Trebles, Indigo Adamson,<br />
the Y7 and Y8 Extension groups, pianists<br />
Charlotte Weinstein, Lizzie Luckashvilli<br />
and Daina Babeckas, Cincopation, the<br />
orchestra and the choir!<br />
Katarina Rance ’22 and Salayah Stange<br />
’22 joined a world movement for climate<br />
change awareness and organised a march<br />
from City Hall to the Cabinet Building with<br />
students from other schools. The young<br />
activists called for the banning of singleuse<br />
plastics, switching from fossil fuels to<br />
renewable energy and declaring a “climate<br />
emergency”. Teachers from various local<br />
schools, members of BEST and Be Solar<br />
Ltd. accompanied the students. They<br />
presented a petition about taking action<br />
over Climate Change to Premier David<br />
Burt and Deputy Premier Walter Roban.<br />
6 <strong>Torchbearer</strong> <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2019</strong>
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