Amarei Williams, a student of Agape Total Life Academy, is the 2021 National Spelling Bee Winner in the Primary Division.

Pictured are Early Childhood practitioners including daycare workers and owners are pictured during Early Childhood Awareness Week 2021 CPR training.

Ms. Kesia King and Mr. Willis Potter have been appointed as principals in the public school system of the Virgin Islands.

May 23^rd through the 29^th is being observed as Early Childhood Awareness Week. The theme and sub-theme: “Educating All in Changing Times: All Hands Needed” focuses on highlighting the need for us as a community to revisit the way early childhood is approached in our Territory.

Parents and guardians of students attending public schools in the Territory are reminded that schools will be closed on Thursday, May 27 to facilitate Professional Day and midterm break is Friday, May 28.

Dessert competitions for secondary and tertiary school students were held as a part of the activities in observance of Farmers and Fishers’ Week 2021.

A few weeks ago, during the Seventh Sitting of the Third Session of the Fourth House of Assembly held on April 15, I provided an update on the education sector in which I reported that Cabinet had decided to reduce the six-feet social distancing requirement of six feet to three feet to facilitate an increase in the number of students being able to access onsite instruction in schools throughout the Territory. As I indicated then, this reduction has now made it possible for all primary school students to return to onsite instruction.

Teachers and students of the Althea Scatliffe Primary School (ASPS) have received copies of the Virgin Islands Environmental Atlas as the National Parks Trust moves to supply 200 copies to public and private schools across the Territory.

The Fort Garden Centre and Plant Wise VI have contributed to the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries’ School Garden Initiative.

Writers across the Territory are being offered another opportunity to finesse their skills with the hosting of another writing workshop series titled: "The Speculative and the Real: Writing Across Genre” a Prose Fiction Masterclass.