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BOSA NEWS LETTER

“Only The Best Is Good Enough”

Volume 26,  July 2016

Produced by: Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA)
Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased)
New Market P.O., Saint Elizabeth
Jamaica, West Indies
E-mail: beershebaoldstudentsassn@gmail.com

Officers: Glenis Daley, President
Victor Smith, Vice President
Vincent Samuels, Secretary/Treasurer, Newsletter Editor/Producer
Ann Hamilton, Assistant Secretary

OBJECTIVE

The objective of BOSA Newsletter is to inform and educate the people in Beersheba Primary School Community and all Beersheba Primary School Alumni in Jamaica and the Diaspora by means of clean and wholesome news. In doing so, the Newsletter will continue to highlight and celebrate their achievements, mourn their losses, defend their rights and articula...

Beersheba Primary School (New Trustee) for James Richards Educational Scholarship Fund has selected two of the best academic performing students as high school scholarship beneficiaries of the fund for 2016.

The selection is based on the excellent academic performance of these two students from Beersheba Primary School who sat the Ministry of Education Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) in March 2016

The names of the two qualifying beneficiaries of the Fund, School District where they reside, and averages earned in the GSAT Exam – results were released by the Ministry of Education in June 2016 are as follows:

 Candice Bucknor from New Savannah., New Market, St. Elizabeth and Tamieka Campbell from “Rocks Hall”/Flint Valley.

Candice  Bucknor “New Savannah” New Market  with an average ...

Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) results released by the Ministry of Education on June 14, 2016 have revealed that ten (10) students who sat the exam in March 2016 at Beersheba Primary School have been successful and have been placed in High Schools of their choice.

Front Row: Brittany Goodlitt, Tameika Campbell, Sashaun Johnson, Candice Burknor and Kimberley Salmon.  Back Row: left – right – Nehemiah Smith, Miguel Richards, Akeem Jones, James Kelly and Matthew Lee. Standing in the back row is  Principal T. Williams.

Break down of High Schools in which these ten students have been placed are as follows:

Sydney Pagon High School                            (4)

Saint Elizabeth Technical High School        ( 2)

Lacovia High School                                          ...

It is indeed with much sad regret that Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) announces The passing of Mr. A. L. Reynolds, who had a very good relationship with Mrs. Louise E. Tomlinson-Meyler (Miss Lou), Retired Principal Beersheba Primary School during the era of the 1960’s. Mr. Reynolds who is fondly remembered as “Man Teacher” by myriad students whom he taught over the many years that he was Principal at Black River Primary School before he was appointed Education Officer by the Ministry of Education, passed away peacefully in his sleep at his home at Spring Park, Black River, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica West Indies on the morning of May 30, 2016. The deceased passed away at age 90 years short of his 91st birthday. Mr. Reynolds who attended Mico College – now know as The Mico