BEN Donates Books To P1 Classrooms
Donor Stories, News, Our Work, Stories, Volunteer Stories | March 31, 2023
Bermuda Education Network is celebrating International Children’s Book Day with a donation of books to every P1 classroom in Bermuda’s public school system. A spokesperson said, “International Children’s Book Day has been celebrated annually on April 2 since 1967 with the goal of inspiring a love of reading in children. Every P1 classro... Read more
Summer Learning Program – Interns
Employee Stories, Stories, Summer Learning Programme | February 8, 2023
Interns of 2022: Jaishelbi, Alexandra, Morgan, and Tori BEN provides a unique experience for individuals who are interested in a career in education to become involved with the summer learning program by applying for the role of an intern. BEN’s 2023 Summer Learning Program aims to reduce the percentage of public primary school children who d... Read more
Teacher interns impart and receive learning in summer camp
Donor Stories, News, Our Work, Stories, Summer Learning Programme | August 2, 2022
A summer camp aimed at helping public schoolchildren catch up on their reading skills recently provided an opportunity for four aspiring teaching interns to gain professional experience.The three-week programme which finished last Friday is a continuation of a partnership between the Bermuda Education Network and the Bermuda Underwater Exploration... Read more
Environmental scheme to help boost reading skills launched
Horizons, News | October 26, 2021
Primary school pupils are to benefit from a new environmental programme designed to improve literacy skills. The Bermuda Education Network, a group set up to create specialist programmes in the public education system, has teamed up with eight other organisations to deliver the course to P2 pupils. It is an expansion of BEN’s Hori... Read more
6 Strategies to Build a Foundational Love of Reading
BEN Book Club, Kristen Scott Ndiaye | October 11, 2021
Raising a reader takes more than teaching how to decode and blend sounds and letters. Between ages two and five, your little one may not be reading, but you can certainly be thinking about the first steps. Learning to read starts with building a foundational love of reading, which comes from reading books that make a child light up, reading them o... Read more