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Yahoo
10-04-2025
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Post-16 baccalaureate diploma programme paused
The post-16 International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) run at Guernsey's Sixth Form Centre has been paused due to a low number of students signing up. The decision has been made for the 2025/26 academic year as only 14 students registered for the programme. The Committee for Education, Sport and Culture said if it had gone ahead, many classes would have had only one or two students in each, as a wide range of subjects had been chosen by the students. It said students who had started their IBDP in the 2024/25 academic year will not be affected by the pause, and their two-year course will continue to run into next academic year. Deputy Andrea Dudley-Owen, President of the committee, said: "The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme has been and remains a valued part of our Sixth Form Centre's curriculum for some years now. "With this decision to pause the diploma, school leaders can now use staff more effectively to make a wider impact across education." Follow BBC Guernsey on X and Facebook. Send your story ideas to Calls to keep sixth form at Les Varendes Sixth form centre will be 'supportive environment' States of Guernsey - Education
BBC News
10-04-2025
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- BBC News
Guernsey post-16 baccalaureate diploma programme paused
The post-16 International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) run at Guernsey's Sixth Form Centre has been paused due to a low number of students signing decision has been made for the 2025/26 academic year as only 14 students registered for the Committee for Education, Sport and Culture said if it had gone ahead, many classes would have had only one or two students in each, as a wide range of subjects had been chosen by the said students who had started their IBDP in the 2024/25 academic year will not be affected by the pause, and their two-year course will continue to run into next academic year. Deputy Andrea Dudley-Owen, President of the committee, said: "The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme has been and remains a valued part of our Sixth Form Centre's curriculum for some years now."With this decision to pause the diploma, school leaders can now use staff more effectively to make a wider impact across education."
BBC News
26-03-2025
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- BBC News
Guernsey teachers' dedication in Covid remembered five years on
Five years since Guernsey schools closed for the first Covid lockdown, islanders have been looking back at what happened and how the pandemic impacted their lives. Nick Hynes, who at the time was the head of Inclusion and Services for Children and Schools, said it was a "scary" time. "At the time, it felt like we were making very big decisions - not only personally but for the whole community - and not quite understanding what that might mean then and in the future."He said during the lockdown teachers worked through their Easter holidays and supported Guernsey's most vulnerable now director of education said: "After Covid, education was struggling for a long time, because of the ongoing illness of staff and pupils, and the challenges of recruiting and retaining staff."I'll never forget the dedication that staff put in, without complaining." For Kieran James, principal of the Sixth Form Centre, the transition to online learning was the first said: "We started working with telecoms agencies and businesses to distribute wi-fi dongles because we realised immediately that some students couldn't learn online as they didn't have internet access. "We were literally going round dropping dongles and books through people's postboxes so students could learn."I think we all came back thinking, 'we do like school, we like being in school, and this is our community'." Sophia Roger, now 17 and studying at the Sixth Form Centre, said: "I think, as an island, we did deal with it really well. "We came together and did what we were told to do to pretty quickly which prevented any spread [of Covid]."I don't feel that I missed out on too much education, because my school at the time [Blanchelande College] made sure we had what we said the lockdowns taught her to be more grateful."We value things more now. "We value social interactions with our friends and having one-on-one conversations with our teachers, even going out to the shop." Tom Rylatt remembers leaving university in a rush and later struggling to complete his studies he says spending the summer months of the first lockdown in Guernsey gave him a much better experience than that of his peers in the UK."It was one of the only times in my life it felt as though everyone was putting their faith in the States - they were pulling for us and we were pulling for them - which doesn't always feel like the case now."What I remember was community, freedom and good weather."
BBC News
27-01-2025
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- BBC News
Artist plans veterans project ahead of Liberation Day in Guernsey
An art teacher in Guernsey is planning a project to honour veterans ahead of Liberation Bailey, a fine artist and teacher at Les Varendes High School and the Sixth Form Centre, is best known for her memorial has only moved to the bailiwick recently, but has worked with the Royal British Legion in the past, publishing books of her drawings with all the proceeds going to the Bailey said she was hoping to do a similar project in the island honouring local veterans. She went to a veterans' breakfast in Guernsey with the Royal British Legion, getting ideas on how to showcase the former members of the armed Bailey said: "Now I feel it is my chance to highlight our veterans and the amazing job that they do, continue to do, and have done."I get a huge amount of satisfaction from knowing that I bring joy to people that perhaps would have never smiled again."She added: "They gave up their yesterday for us to have a tomorrow. We have to remember that and never forget it."
