Somersfield Academy News
Teenager Zoë Mir spends school break coaching baseball
Zoë Mir is blessed with a such a great sense of responsibility for a teenager.
Instead of enjoying her fall break from her United States school, the 14-year-old headed to Bermuda to spend nine days on the island conducting baseball coaching sessions at two institutions that mean a lot to her.
Zoë Mir Shortlisted for Foundation for Environmental Education
Bermuda’s winners were entered into the annual Global Competition and Somersfield Academy student Zoe Mir’s article submission entitled, ‘Plastic Pollution on Nonsuch Island, the Home of the Cahows’, has been shortlisted by the Foundation for Environmental Education for an international award.
Students Partner With BZS To Build Micro Forest
This project was spearheaded by M3 students, Zoë Mir, Adriana DeCouto, and Aura Doran. Under the guidance of MYP Community Project Coordinator, Ria Swan, and Science Teacher Natalia Frith, the students raised more than $3,500 from the community to purchase 17 different types of native and endemic shrubs and trees, gardening tools, and mulch.
BUEI Announces Zoe Mir (M3) YRE Competition Winner
M3 student, Zoë Mir, environmental activist and Micro Forest Project facilitator, channels her passion for the environment into an award-winning report that highlights the problem of plastic pollution on Nonsuch Island and the dangers it poses to the endangered Cahow, one of the rarest seabirds on the planet. She has won the Young Reporters for the Environment Journalism Competition!
Somersfield Academy dominates schools badminton final
Somersfield Academy picked up an impressive medal haul at the Bermuda School Sports Federation Middle School Girls Badminton Finals on Tuesday. Check out the results.