Torchbearer Fall 2019

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 gokarts
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.
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.
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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