Mar 2, 2021
B.H.S. to Host Robotics Competition for 9-14 Year-Olds
There’s an exciting robotics competition happening later this month. It involves fun learning where students pick up new skills that they can apply in other areas of their studies. Belize High School is hosting the contest and looking for a few more participants. Reporter Andrea Polanco tells us more.
Sophia Usher, Standard V Student, Belize Elementary School
“You know the length of the robot is three hundred and sixty and you have to time it for how far you want it to go and so you have times three sixty by three sixty by three sixty or however long you want.”
Mar 2, 2021
B.H.S. Hoping to be Included in the Reopening of Schools Pilot Project
Minister of Education Francis Fonseca recently commented on plans to kickstart the reopening of schools for all Belizean students in August and September and a possible phased reopening even earlier. Principal Jamie Usher of Belize High School spoke to News Five today about the school’s readiness for the reopening pilot project.
“We are hoping to be one of the schools
, not because of any other reason than we believe that our smaller population can allow for a reopening, but we believe
that once we create a safe space any school should be able to reopen once we have guidelines in place. I think the same way how they opened up with the hotels check list and so forth, I believe that we can push that out to all the schools because I know from my communications with other principals a lot of schools are absolutely ready. So, when your team visited us this morning you got a taste of