The Edwardian

The Edwardian goes digital

The yearbook published by St Edward’s College, The Edwardian, will, this year go digital.

This year the college is seeking to amp up its environmental responsibilities. In order to reduce the carbon footprint, The Edwardian will be published digitally for St Edward’s Day. Then, those who wish for a hard (printed) copy), may send in their request and payment by a deadline which will be announced separately. This is being done to ensure a minimum of extra copies being printed and then not collected.

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Geography options students this morning had a field day, in a very real sense. Together with their teacher Mr Daniel Caruana Smith, they started drawing maps. Using the age-old principle 'From the known to the unknown' they were first directed to draw a map. Then they were guided through a novel Q&A technique to what was missing on their maps. And no, there were no Picassos but there were a couple of very sharp students who remembered their Geo Club lectures well! Kudos, boys!

Training for MySchool

Digital communication has become part of life. If there was one positive element which emanated out of the Covid experience, it was the interaction which the digital platforms fostered between homes and schools.

“We organized two sessions of training on the My School platform so that we can make sure that all parents are up to date on the use of the platform and no one feels left out,” said Ms Vivian Borg, Academic, Curriculum and Logistics Co-Ordinator. The sessions were held on-line and close to a hundred parents attended. Through these sessions, particularly useful to new parents, the parents understood where assignments and communications from teachers could be accesses and how they could monitor and reply.

The Kingdom of Barsin rises from the ashes

The Kingdom of Barsin has formally launched diplomatic overtures with the Kingdom of Edwardshire. Diplomatic sources reveal that while both Privy Councils are meeting, they may be discussing reciprocal treaties to be signed in proposed state visits.

Over the past year, a number of students founded the Kingdom of Barsin in what the students term as The Forest. Max Ghio,

then in Year 6Y wrote “It started out as a community where we could roleplay and have fun. It evolved into a whole kingdom (well sort of). A small group of us from Year 6 started earlier on this year by pretending that we used to live in the Middle Ages - kings, priests, knights and all. After a while, we started playing infection tag and we had so much fun. And that brings us to the present day where we built rubble walls, houses, shops and so much more. Now let’s put those points in a little bit more detail.” However, at the end of May, a few weeks before the end of school, the kingdom was devastated by an alien invasion. “Our shops, our bank, our first wall and everything that meant so much to us was destroyed” wrote Max Ghio, his writing echoing the disappointment of the students.

It appears that the Barisinians have a resilient spirit, much like their fellow residents of Edwardshire and Barsin is, like a Phoenix, rising again from the ashes.

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