Saltus Grammar School - Yearbook (Hamilton, Bermuda)

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19 EDITORIAL The 1 1 + has come to Bermuda. Free education will be supplied in one or other of the schools in the Island which run academic courses to G.C.E. level, to those students who pass the Board of Education ' s examination. The Board has been reticent about the form and content of this examination, but all the primary school children in Bermuda have now taken it and presumably places will be awarded to children who show sufficient promise to lead the Board to hope they may pass a number of subjects at ' O ' level in four years time. A good deal can happen in four years. But there has to be some sort of test if the good are to be separated from the not-so-good, and for many years an 1 1 -|- examination was used in England. This examination, incidentally, is now being replaced in England by a system which is less mechanical and less of a sudden. death play-off. It was felt that it was unfair and inaccurate to judge a child permanently on his performance on two days out of the year, and it was also felt that although an impersonal and stereo- typed test might effectively sort eggs or tins of tomato sauce it was less reliable in sorting human beings. Naturally, most of the pressure to do away with the English 1 1 + came from the parents of those who failed it, but be that as it may an increasing number of Local Education Authorities (equivalent to the Board of Education in Bermuda) now use a series of smaller tests set at intervals over a year or more of each child ' s schooling, the results of which are taken in conjunction with a report from the head teacher of the child ' s primary school. Undoubtedly this kind of assessment will hove completely replaced the old method in England by 1970, and few can doubt that the change will be for the better. However, a move in Bermudian education which aims to make secondary education to G.C.E. levels available to more boys and girls is clearly to be welcomed. It is in the Island ' s interest thot fewer expatriates be imported to do work Bermudians are not qualified to do, and free education for the able but poor should result in a larger reserve of brainpower in the future. Thus the now embarrassingly pressing need to bring in qualified people to teach or administrate will become less acute. The proof of the pudding, though, is in the eating: we shall have to wait and see how the scheme works out. No doubt the Board will find that many adjustments ore needed before they can consider the recipe for this pudding proved.

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18 GOVERNING BODY Chairman: H. C. BUTTERFIELD, Esq. J. V. MURDOCH, Esq. S. GASCOIGNE, Esq. H. C. E. MASTERS, Esq. D. C. SELLEY, Esq. F. J. GOSLING, Esq., D.F.C. W. F. HAYWARD, Esq., M.B.E. Headmaster: H. J. HALLETT, Esq., M.A. (Oxon.) Secretary-Treasurer: MRS. J. J. SHEEHY F. L. STEPHENSON, Esq. (Senior Master) STAFF F. CAPSTICK, Esq. R. S. ALGER, Esq., D.P.E. C. S. MADDERN, Esq. C. J. ENOCH, Esq. E. R. ROTH WELL, Esq. B.Sc. (Lend.) J. R. BRIDGE, Esq. MISS C. RIDEOUT S. F. J. FARROW, Esq., B.A. (Keele) J. F. R. CRAVEN, Esq., B.A. (Dublin) R. PERKINS, Esq., B.A. A. M. BESTFORD, Esq., B.A. (Sheffield) R. J. SAYLES, Esq., B.Sc. (Durham) A. L. PETTIT, Esq., B.A. (Dublin) M. HUNTER, Esq., B.A. (Cantab) P. S. WELCH, Esq. MISS L. VITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL Headmistress: MISS M. V. EDE MRS. S. SMITH

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20 MONTHS In January school begins, So does football and bruised shins. February, to be quite frank, I will have to leave a blank. Windy March brings the Spring, When we hear the bluebirds sing. The month of April brings the rain. Coaxing flowers to grow again. After all these April showers, It is a joy to see May flowers. June is the time to plan vacations. Make arrangements and reservations. Hot July ' s the end of term, And with report cards. Dad ' s quite firm. August is the time for swimming. Rowing boats and going finning. By September, sad to say. Holidays ore over ' til Christmas Day. Late October brings Halloween, Popcorn, apples and ice-cream. Early November brings Guy Fawkes ' Day, Bangers! and rockets turn night into day. In cold December comes Christmas Day, Joy and gladness to all, we pray. T. W. T. HALU Jr. V. 1st XI FOOTBALL - 1965 The 1965 season was not one of the best experienced by the Saltus 1st XI and the team ended up with an unimpressive record. The results obtained were not due to a lack of potential amongst the team members but rather to the absence of any cohesion between them. The passing was not as accurate as one could have hoped and players showed a lock of imagination, in most instances, when it came to using the open spaces available. Perhaps physical fitness, or rather the opposite, was another pitfall in our bid for success. A good example where fitness would have made a great difference was the game against Dellwood. This, the first game of the season, was drawn.