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 First aid all staff at British West Indies Collegiate are trained in First Aid

You should be pleased to learn that nearly all BWIC teachers recently completed two afternoons of intensive first aid training and became qualified and certified to internationally-recognised standards. In the event of any accident, we have five first aid bases around campus where your child can receive immediate attention. In case of a more serious occurrence, we have four first aid kits, as well as a stretcher, which can be carried to the site of an injured person to administer any necessary treatment or evacuation prior to the arrival of the emergency services.

WATCHING WHAT THEY’RE WATCHING

At the Parents/Teachers welcome evening, I addressed one particular problem linked to the use of technology at home by students; namely, the time your children spend on social media or video games. After conducting a survey amongst Year 10 and Year 11 students, I discovered that your children are spending 4 to 6 hours on school days and 8 to 12 hours on weekends looking at a screen of some sort. This survey was in fact a questionnaire which also required them, amongst other things, to name their favourite painter or composer. Only one student could name a famous painter and most of them had never heard of Mozart. This is worrying and reveals a dangerous addiction to social media, detrimentally to quality time which could be spent on worthwhile research, watching the news or conversing with you. This could place them at a serious disadvantage at a university or job interview.

Are you asleep at night when they are not?

Please also make sure you know how your children are using technology. Our classroom computers have restrictions on which sites can be used. If yours doesn’t, consider adding them or checking the search history to know what your children are doing. Keep up with what young people are into. Vine, Snapchat, or whatever the latest online trend is, stay current so you can recognize and head off any problems early on.

Are you in control when they are not? Please open this link: http://time.com/4096797/teens-media-phone-use-myths-truths/

Sylvie Wigglesworth
Principal

BWIC PARTICIPATES IN  INTERNATIONAL COASTAL CLEAN-UP DAY

Many BWIC students, staff and parents took part in the International Coastal Clean-up Day on Saturday 17th September. An amazing number of bags of rubbish were collected from the beaches of Grace Bay – which is both good as a token of environmental concern, and bad as it highlights the need for ongoing vigilance if we are to keep Providenciales “Beautiful by Nature”. Well done, all concerned!

A CHANGE TO MICHAELMAS EXAMINATIONS

There is a change to the published arrangements for internal Michaelmas examinations. These will now take place in two blocks: senior years (9-13) will have their exams from 14th-17th November; junior years (6-8) will have their exams from 21st-24th November. Please amend your calendars accordingly.

Morning Drop-Off and Afternoon Pick-Up

Your increased attention to the arrangements for morning drop-off and afternoon pick-up of students would be greatly appreciated. This comes out of concern expressed by some parents about some drivers not pulling safely into parking bays before leaving or collecting children. To do so amid traffic is extremely dangerous and causes delay to the vehicles whose drivers are patiently queuing behind. We do not want any accidents on, or outside, our campus, so PLEASE slow down to walking pace as you drive through our gates, follow the traffic circuit, park up as indicated, and help keep our students safe! 

Revised Wednesday Timetable

A new timetable has been set in place, ONLY FOR WEDNESDAYS. Copies of the day’s schedule have been distributed to all students. The school day will continue to begin and end at the normal times.

We need to remind some parents that their children MUST be collected from school by 3.30pm. We have no child-minding facility in place for those students left waiting.

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