Saltus Grammar School - Yearbook (Hamilton, Bermuda)

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Cable and Wireless On Tuesday afternoon, we walked to cable and wireless The walk was very tiring but fun because we had lots of things to look at. When we got to cable and wireless we got on the project about the dish. They used lots of steel to make stations for the satellite dish. Mr. Murray- Tait showed us the other satellite dishes for telephone and television. And he told us that the dish would be one hundred feet tall. When we walked back to school the walk was fun. Theodore Francis On Tuesday afternoon we walked to Cable and Wireless and when we got there we met a man and his name was Mr. Murray-Tait and first of all he showed us where the satelitte dish was going to be and then he took us to a window in the back and we saw water come down and splashing on the ground inside the back because they were washing the top of the base and then he showed us the steel and then he took us around and showed us the dish that can pick up N.A.S.A. and the space ship Columbia and then he showed us a dish that when we telephone to a different country this dish puts you through to the country you want and it puts you through to the country you want and it puts a picture on your tv and then he took us to a building and he said this building is going to have computers and then we had to go back to school. George Masters The Cave I climbed down in to the cave then I found a skeleton then I picked it up and I went to find something else then I found a gun then I ran as fast as I could. Then I got out the gun that I found and I shot the crocodile then I walked then I came to some quicksand then I fell into it. I pulled and pulled but I could not get out of the quicksand. Sud- denly I had a clue I will get that long stick then I will push down to the bottom of the quicksand then I will push as hard as I can. Timothy Collins One day I was playing and then I saw a crack in the ground and so I climbed down into it and I went down and down and then I saw that it stopped so I got down and I looked around. I saw wrecks and spiders every where so I started walking. I walked for a while and I stopped and I saw a little pool and I saw there were fish in it. I was hungry and I remembered that I had some rope in my pocket so I walked back to where the opening was. I saw a rock at the top so I tied it like a lasso and I threw it up and it went down on the rock and I climbed up and 1 ran home and I went home and 1 had my dinner and I told my mum about it. Bryce Vaessen ' The Show ' — Theodore Francis. % ■ . I , 1 ' Sports Day ' — Andrew Riker. The Race I started to go faster and faster because I was in a race and some other people were beating me but I lost and I went home very sad. There was the biggest race in New York coming up so I started to train and soon the big race came up and I won the race. They picked me for a race in England. I went there and I started to train and train. This time there was a trillion people in the race. This time I won again so they picked me for the biggest race in the world. There was a zillion people in the race and I trained for ten years. I won again and they paid me a million dollars in real cash. Marcus Wells I started to go faster, and faster and I bumped into a wall and went flying into the air and landed on a bull. He started to buck up and down and I gave myself a headache and I felt dizzy. I let go of the horns and fell to the ground and tried to be careful of its hooves because it was trying to hit me. So 1 got up and ran down to the street. But I tripped over a rock and tumbled down to the wall and I climbed over it. Someone ate a banana and dropped the skin and I went skid- ding back to my home. Mark Outerbridge ' The Show ' — Justin Griffiths. 15

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MR. MEREDITH ' S 3M Samson There once was a man named Samson he was very strong. His father and mother wanted him to get married. Then one day Samson found a wife that he lilced. The next day they got married and the wedding lasted for seven days. Samson asked a riddle the riddle was out of the strong came something sweet out of the eater came something to eat it took them seven days to find it out. They sent his wife and she manag- ed to squeeze it out of him then she went and told the men then they came and told him the answer then he went out and killed 60 men and brought it to the 21 men. One other day some men wanted to catch Samson but they did not now how because he was so strong then one of the men had an idea he knew a lady that he liked so they went over to her house and they ask- ed her to find out what made him so strong. She asked Samson over and she asked him what made him so strong several times but he just laughed then he told her if he cut his hair he would be weak then she gave him a drink of wine and she cut his hair she called the men in they tied him up and took him to the new hall and tied him between two poles, where everyone could see him. Samson started to talk to God he said give me back my powers that I had and I will teach them a lesson. God gave him back his strength and he pulled down the building it killed everyone even himself. ' Rhinocerous ' — Steven Whitecross. The Sorcerers Apprentice Once upon a time I was a sorcerer ' s apprentice and the sorcerer could ride on a crocodiles back. One day I was cleaning up and I heard the sorcerer talking so I hid behind a door and I heard the sorcerer putting a spell so a broom could come alive and serve him a feast. So when he went out I came in and made the broom come alive and I made it go out and fetch water for my bath. It went back and forth fetching water from the well so when my bath was full. I said stop, stop! but it didn ' t stop so I got an axe and chopped the broom in half but the broom was in pieces and just as of the house was full the wizard came in and told the broom to go back in its corner. Justin Griffiths U.F.O. ' s I believe in U.F.O. ' s because I have seen many stories about them and one night a fire noise woke me up and I saw a light and I got out of bed and got a flash light then I went down in the cellar and saw an alien and I asked him what his name was and he said E.T. and he was scared. The next morning I told my mom I saw E.T. and she said that we ' d better take you to the eye doctor. Alex Leonard Jonah Once there lived a man called Jonah and God had given him a com- mand to go to a city called Ninevah but Jonah disobeyed and went on a ship. He was going to a place called Tarshish but on the way the ran into a storm and it was a very bad storm and the passengers prayed to all their gods then Jonah said throw me overboard then the people did as they were told and the storm stopped and then Jonah was swallow- ed by a whale then when the whale opened its mouth and Jonah got out and swan to this island and he walked until he came to a city and God told Jonah that he had forgiven the people that were been mean and Jonah was agry and he went out into the sun and sat on a rock and a tree began to grow then it died and Jonah was sorry for the tree. God said that if you were sorry for that tree I should be sorry for the peo- ple. Alasdair Younie Nicholas Strong jj , jj g Rhinocerous got his Skin Long long ago there was a Parsee. He lived on the beach. All he had was a stove and a hat. One day he made a cake. When it was brown enough he took it off. And he was just about to eat it when a rhinocerous came charging down to the beach, got the cake on his his horn and ate it. The next day it was so hot that the parsee had his hat off. And the rhinocerous had his skin unbottoned. In those days at the bottom there were buttons and went down to the sea and took his skin and and went in then the Parsee filled his hat with breadcrumbs and put breadcrumbs on the skin. And when the rhinoceros put the skin back on he scraped and that made it wrinkled. Then he went away and the Parsee went away too. Wayne Jones ' Cable and Wireless ' — Sean Collier. 14

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THE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ELECTION On learning that Cavendish Hall was to be us- ed as a Polling Station on 3rd February, we decided that it would help our children to understand why their school had to be closed for the day (not that they were complaining!) if they could have some first hand experience of the process of election. Voting for officers from the student body seemed inappropriate for such young children, yet we wanted them to feel the results of voting for something which would really affect them. Our plans for the last day of term, traditionally an informal session, were not yet finalised, so it was agreed that they could choose between wat- ching films or decorating hard boiled eggs on this day. The Class 3 boys responded to the idea with enthusiasm, writing election speeches to read to the School at Assembly and painting cam- paign posters which decorated the Hall. At first there appeared to be many more sup- porters for egg decorating than for films, until some staff members began discreet canvass- ing for films which would make a much easier day for the teachers! Public Works agreed to leave the polling booths in place for the morning following the Election Day, and voting procedures were followed as faithfully as possible. We had been given small prints of the boys ' individual photographs for our records, so they made their own Voter ' s Identity Cards without which no-one was allowed to enter the Hall. Our own police kept order outside, while in- side a steward checked identity before the voter was issued a ballot paper, stamped by the Returning Officer, when his name had been crossed off the school list. All these of- ficials were 7 year olds from Class 3. Our children did not have any problem fin- ding the gap in the black curtains which had made it difficult for some adults to get in or out of the polling booths the previous day — they simply ducked underneath. But reaching the shelf on which to mark the paper was quite an effort for the smaller ones. We had made sure that the pencils were on long enough strings for the paper to be marked resting on the floor, but no child chose this alternative, preferring to stand on tiptoe and reach up in a more dignified manner. To test the efficiency of our officials some children were issued with bogus cards using photographs of boys from previous years, and attempted to vote twice. They were all detected and turned away, and even two boys with correct identification were stopped because they were new to the school and their names were not on the typed list. My sym- pathies were with the Parliamentary Registrar as I struggled lo persuade our conscientious Returning Officer that these children really were eligible to vote. After the ballot count I was pleased that only six papers were rejected as improperly marked, showing thai nearly all (he children had understood the inslruclions and marked jusl one X in the square beside their choice. We had put a picture to illustrate each option for those who could not yet read the words Eggs or Films and two of the spoilt papers had an egg carefully drawn in the square instead of an X. The intention was clear enough, but our scrutineers were effi- cient and thorough in their rejection of anything which did not comply with the letter lo the law. The count resulted in 83 votes for Eggs, 64 for Films; not such a walk-over for eggs as had at first appeared likely, but the teachers ' canvassing had not been totally suc- cessful. I believe that this exercise did make it clear to the children how a ballot is organised, although not all appreciated that their parents had been voting for a Government the previous day. One excited five year old, an- nouncing at home that his choice had been successful, enquired, Did you vote for eggs yesterday. Mummy? M.V.H. 16