Students from three educational institutions on Cayman Brac have tested positive for the COVID-19 virus.
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Montessori By The Sea shows clear leadership, closeness among staff
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Clear leadership and closeness among staff have helped Montessori By The Sea navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, an inspector said. There was no reported learning loss among students, who continued to make good academic progress.
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Strategies for COVID, accountability for school leaders at CIS
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Cayman International School had put strategies in place to deal with COVID-19, placed accountability on senior leaders and focussed on the mental wellness of students and staff, Office of Education Standards inspectors said.
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During pandemic, Clever Fish sees few absences, little learning loss
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The small Clever Fish secondary school had experienced relatively few cases of COVID and minimal learning loss among students, an inspector said.
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Roundup: Find all the OES reports on ‘thematic visits’ to Cayman schools
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From January to March 2022, inspectors from the Office of Education Standards conducted one-day ‘thematic visits’ to 31 public and private schools across Cayman. For our readers’ convenience, the Current has published a list of all the schools linking to the stories we wrote on their visits.
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Extra efforts during COVID have Lighthouse School staff feeling ‘beyond exhausted’
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Staff at the specialist Lighthouse School have found creative ways during the pandemic to serve their students, all of whom have moderate to profound Special Education Needs and/or Disabilities. However, the additional workload related to COVID has left staff feeling ‘beyond exhausted’, a school inspector said.
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Truth For Youth invests in COVID response, student safeguarding, new curriculum
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The leaders of Truth For Youth School have invested significant resources into the school’s response to COVID and other issues, including student safeguarding and a new curriculum, an inspector said.
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Footsteps has few COVID absences, little learning loss
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Teachers at Footsteps gave school leaders good marks for being supportive of their well-being during the pandemic. The small primary school has had few absences due to COVID, seen minimal learning loss, and has not had difficulties recruiting new staff members, an inspector said.
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At John Cumber, focus on mental wellness of all and ‘up-skilling’ of teachers and parents
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Unlike teachers at many other schools, staff at Sir John A. Cumber Primary School did not report feeling “over-stretched” by additional duties during the pandemic, a school inspector said.
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Cayman’s smallest school faces COVID challenges similar to larger institutions
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With an enrolment of only 2 students (who are siblings), Little Cayman Education Services faced many of the same challenges as the country’s larger schools have during the COVID-19 pandemic, including additional public health measures and learning loss.
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West End Primary students make academic progress, staff ‘overwhelmed’ by rapid pace of change
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Most students at West End Primary School continued to make academic progress during the pandemic, an inspector said. However, some staff said they were ‘overwhelmed and disheartened’ by the rapid pace in which changes and new initiatives were being introduced at the Cayman Brac school.