Up to date: Jul 16, 2024 04:59 PM
Somersfield Academy hosts Bermuda Training Community’s Summer time Studying Programme for the second consecutive yr ({Photograph} from Somersfield Academy)
A free summer time studying programme hosted at a Devonshire faculty has celebrated its second yr in operation.
The Bermuda Training Community partnered with Somersfield Academy to ship one other spherical of its Fortitude Re Summer time Studying Programme, spanning three weeks and catering to 44 P3 pupils.
The college donated area for one-on-one studying tutoring, artwork enrichment and outside play.
Kristen Scott Ndiaye, Somersfield’s improvement and advertising and marketing supervisor, stated the varsity took “nice delight” in contributing to the broader neighborhood in addition to furnishing workers with skilled improvement.
She stated: “This collaboration has introduced new insights, college students and contemporary views to our campus, enabling us to fulfil our imaginative and prescient of fostering an inclusive neighborhood that nurtures socially acutely aware, impartial learners.”
The programme is anticipated to proceed and probably increase in coming years, she added, delivering intervention and professional steerage, with the prices coated by Fortitude Re.
Youngsters participating had been really helpful by academics, principals and studying specialists, BEN founder and government director Rebecca Ausenda stated.
The programme boosts their foundational studying abilities to maintain children from falling behind of their general studying.
Kelly Rodday, BEN’s studying programme director and a major trainer at Somersfield, stated the workforce of 11 studying tutors, 4 classroom academics and 6 interns got skilled improvement coaching forward of the programme by Natalie Roberts, deputy principal and studying specialist at St George’s Prep.
Ashley Phipps, Danielle Tannock, Judith Bartley, Caroline Araujo and former Somersfield trainer Deonaé Dickinson are contributing as classroom academics and one-on-one tutors, with Somersfield alumna Morgan Kempe returning.
Pupils full the programme and a report is shared with their faculties to help them within the coming tutorial yr.
Particulars can be found on the BEN web site.