There is something extraordinarily special about the batch of 64 students who yesterday exited the walls of the St Catherine-based Ewarton High School, which is celebrating its 50th year of existence. Dubbed the golden batch, the students, wearing blue gowns and hats along with yellow tassels, promised to take on a challenge thrown out by…
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11 teachers migrate at once, leaving school in a scuffle
Principal of Ewarton High School in St Catherine, Jacqueline Simpson-Huntley, has disclosed that the migration of 11 teachers badly affected the educational institution at the start of the school year. In a report presented during the school’s 50th anniversary graduation ceremony yesterday, June 20, Simpson-Huntley said there was a struggle to find replacements. “We were…
Ewarton teacher dies in hospital
Members of staff at Ewarton High School in St Catherine received the bad news while they boarded the school bus, which would have transported them into Kingston to donate blood for their colleague Karlene Reid-Leon, who is pictured above. The 52-year-old Leon, who taught at the school for almost 20 years, died of an unspecified…