Connected Community Annual Report New Chairman Gil Tucker 2010 –11 Leads Dynamic Path Forward PAGE 20 PAGES 39 –47 16 23 MAGAZINE Spring 2012
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SPRING 2012 MAGAZINE Connected community annual report New Chairman Gil Tucker 2010 –11 leads dynamic path forward PAGE 20 PAGES 39 –47 16 23 MAGAZINE Spring 2012 Saltus Grammar School Headmaster Ted Staunton Canadian Accredited Independent Schools Deputy Headmaster Malcolm Durrant Board of Trustees Gil Tucker, Chairman Lisa Baumgartner Graham Collis William J. Cox Kelly Francis Gayle Gorman Sheila Lines Andy Pereira Dominic Powell Sacha Simmons Leonard Teye-Botchway Giorgio Zanol Jennifer Titterton ex officio Feedback Contents Saltus magazine Email: [email protected] Tel: 441/292-6177, ext. 6264 Write: PO Box HM 2224, FROM THE HEADMASTER COMMUNITY Hamilton HM JX, Bermuda 3 A sense of community 16 Saltus Island a treasure Web: www.saltus.bm NEWS COVER STORY Saltus Association PTA Email: [email protected] 4 New Trustees, First Aid Centre 20 Our connected community Donors SALTUS STARS ALUMNI To make a gift, contact 6 Top student achievers 35 Reports from the Real World Berta Barreto-Hogan at [email protected] or donate online at SALTUS STAFF ANNUAL REPORT www.saltus.bm/support/ 10 Department Directors 39 For 2010 –11 online_donations1.asp 441-292-6177, ext. 6248 Saltus editorial support: 32 Cynthia Lancer-Barnes Edited and designed by Rosemary Jones and Paul Shapiro, Brimstone Media Ltd., [email protected], 441/232-2222 Cover photo: Charles Anderson Printed by Island Press on recycled, chlorine-free paper 36 2 SALTUS MAGAZINE FROM THE HEADMASTER Building a sense of community THE THEME for the 2011–12 school year is “A Connected Community.” Like the two previous year’s themes—“Saltus Pride” and “Respect”—this theme will serve as the focus for many internal and external school activities and events. From student assemblies in all three departments, to charity fund- raising events, to Saltus Association executive- parent information sessions, to Saltus Alumni events in Canada and the UK, the emphasis will be on forming a tight, cohesive bond with our own constituents and with the local community. The notion of “a sense of community” constantly arises in research on effective schools. It seems there is a particular ethos that pervades such schools . Key features include: shared values and beliefs abou t the school’s mission; a common agenda of activities linking students and teachers to each other and to the institution’s traditions and values; and an ethos of caring, demonstrated by teachers’ willingness to extend their roles beyond classroom teaching. N Saltus faculty is prepared to go the “extra mile.” O S R E A comprehensive, extra-curricular programme at D N A the Secondary level fills every lunch hour and S E L afterschool period from 3:45–5 pm. Clubs such as R A H Debating and Public Speaking, Model Boat Building , C Drama, Rowing, even Creating Apps for Smart Phones, keep Secondary students active, engaged Primary Department and Advisors in the Middle ‘Saltus and connected to their teachers outside the class - and Upper Divisions of the Secondary Department . room. Many Upper Primary students are improving Communicating with parents and establishing an faculty is their football skills after school, thanks to out - effective home-school connection has been a priorit y standing coaching at the new Valencia C.F. for her department this year. prepared Academy at Saltus. Students also take part in The Advisor programme in Secondary is one to go the after-school “Booster” clubs for spelling, math way students, teachers and parents stay connected. and reading. Advisors meet with each student daily to ensure extra mile’ Effective schools are not defined solely in terms any problems, large or small, are identified and of material resources, programmes and facilities. resolved. Advisors are responsible for seeing The quality of students’ social relations with teacher s their students are happy and progressing at an and teachers’ relations with their colleagues all appropriate pace. Advisors are also the first line of contribute to an enhanced school environment. contact for parents. When a school feels like a community, it is a better Newly appointed Director of Alumni Relations, place to work and study. Students, in particular, Jon Beard, has begun to rejuvenate the Saltus demonstrate more positive attitudes, behaviours Alumni Association by reconnecting with hundreds and academic achievements. of Saltus graduates, both on the Island and around The new Director of the Centre for Learning, the world. Two receptions have been held, in Karen Lusher, is a proponent of maintaining regula r Halifax, Nova Scotia and Toronto, Ontario, for contact with Year Group Coordinators in the Continues next page SALTUS MAGAZINE 3 NEWS WELCOME, NEW BOARD MEMBERS DOMINIC POWELL is a Chartered LISA BAUMGARTNER , a graduate of Financial Analyst and graduate of Babso n the University of Ottawa, Ont., holds College, Wellesley, MA, with a Bachelor a professional accreditation in public of Science in Business Management. relations (APR), with the Public Rela - He is co-founder and president of tions Society of America (PRSA) and Granaway Wealth Management, a bou - is a communications/public relations tique investment management company professional with more than 20 years’ managing portfolios on behalf of familie s, experience. She has held executive and trusts and companies. He has a wealth leadership positions for several charities of experience in the financial sector, in Canada and Bermuda, including including: portfolio manager in group private banking at HSBC , CADA, and Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Bermuda. As market - analyst with the outside trader investment programme for ing manager for Capital G Bank, she was responsible for debit Trout Trading/Tewksbury Capital Management Limited, and credit card marketing and community relations pro - manager of the investment department for Schroders (Bermuda) grammes. She has also served as programme facilitator for the Limited, and a para-planner in the financial planning depart - Student Internship Programme (run by ACE, Deloitte and ment for First Bermuda Securities. He volunteers as president HSBC), in which she mentored 12 Bermudian university stu - of the Bermuda Youth Sports Programme (BYSP), organising dents. As the mother of Braeden (S5), Brett (S4) and Rachel soccer, basketball and baseball leagues for kids. He and wife (S1), she has volunteered as a Class Parent and Class Parent Tori have three children: daughter Skyler at BHS, and sons Coordinator in Saltus Primary, and has also served on the Dylan (S8) and Tucker (S9) at Saltus. Saltus Association PTA executive. STUDENT HEADS AND DEPUTIES APPOINTED FOR 2011 –12 S E N R A B - R E C N A L A I H T N Y C SECONDARY From left: Deputy Head Girl Rachel Doughty, UPPER PRIMARY From left: Deputy Head Girl Katherine Head Boy Nicholas Barton, Head Girl Rachael Waldron, Deputy Brennan, Head Girl Olivia Washington, Head Boy Gabriel Jones, Head Boy Daniel Pell Deputy Head Boy David Gibbons Headmaster Continues Doughty respectively—have been driving Building a connected community can alumni who study or work in these forces behind the increase in student be a challenge, particularly in a school areas. participation in local charity fundraising with 955 students, 700 families, 130 Saltus’s Director of Athletics, Darrin events. Large throngs of red, T-shirt- staff and 3,500 alumni. If the first term Lewis and this year’s Head Boy, Head clad Saltus students dominate walks, of the school year is any indication, Girl, Deputy Head Boy and Deputy runs and clean-up activities, doing great progress is being made on this Head Girl—Nic Barton, Rachael justice to one of the key pillars of our very important goal. Waldron, Daniel Pell and Rachel mission statement, “service to others.” TED STAUNTON, HEADMASTER 4 SALTUS MAGAZINE ROYAL TREATMENT FOR FIRST AID CENTRE ONE OF the School’s most impressive recent campus upgrades is the new First Aid Centre, staffed by full-time nurse Lindsay Manderson. The modern two- room facility, situated on the eastern edge of the Upper Primary Department where staff offices once stood, allows space and privacy for treatment of an average two-dozen patients a day. “The new centre is wonderful, because it allows us to isolate infectious illness and to separate older and younger students, male and female students, or staff and students, if the need arises,” says Nurse Manderson, who is responsible for the health and wellness of students and staff in all departments. Her job also entails edu - N cating students, staff and parents about O S R health issues and providing hands-on E D N A healthcare and preventative initiatives. Nurse Lindsay Manderson attends to S E L Born and raised in Huddersfield, R a student in the new First Aid Centre A H West Yorks, Manderson trained at Leeds C University, UK, and worked in a regiona l neurosurgical unit before heading to and HIV. Last year, she completed a colourful health posters and brochures, Australia to work in ICU and Emergency course at Brigham and Women’s Hospital , makes her job easier thanks to its modern units. Mother to two Saltus students— Boston, in asthma and sports medicine; design and equipment. It includes an Steven in Year 3 and Jessica, Year 11— in Washington DC this year, she up - eye-wash sink, two cots, one of the she has worked at the School for five dated on topics such as school manage - School’s three automated external defib - years, the last couple as a full-time nurse . ment of nutrition, weight concerns, rillators (AEDs), oxygen, ambubags, Before Saltus, she worked in many drugs and alcohol, self harm, disaster and basic medical equipment like blood departments of King Edward VII Me - planning and eye emergencies. pressure monitors, a pulse oximeter, morial Hospital, at two doctors’ offices, “You have to be prepared for every - crutches, splinter kits, eye wash, spacers, and as a government district nurse.