Yvonne Milliner-Bowsky Elementary School To Open Monday For Split Sessions With Emanuel Benjamin Oliver; Lockhart Elementary Opening Date To Be Announced

The Department of Education has announced that the Yvonne Milliner-Bowsky Elementary and the Emanuel Benjamin Oliver (EBO) Elementary schools will open on Monday — albeit at one location. The two schools will operate on a split session schedule at the Bowsky campus. Bowsky students will report from 7:30 a.m. to 12 noon, and EBO students will report from 11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., D.O.E. said.

Buses will begin pick-up of Bowsky students on their normal routes at 6:15 a.m. and buses for EBO students will begin pick-up at 10:15 a.m. Additional pick-up points have been established for EBO students at Hidden Valley and Tutu Valley, according to D.O.E.

The Lockhart Elementary School start date will be announced, according ot the department, although it did not give a timeline. However, D.O.E. said shelter residents currently at Lockhart Elementary were being relocated to a new site, and once the shelter has been fully vacated, the facility will be thoroughly cleaned and sanitized to welcome students and teachers.

In other D.O.E. news, the David Hamilton Jackson (Bull and Bread Day) holiday on Wednesday, November 1 will be observed as a full instructional school day for students and school-based staff across the territory.

And today, D.O.E.’s Division of Music Education and the Division of Cultural Education will host an event dubbed “Stress Relief Concert” at the Sunny Isle Amphitheater from 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. There will be performances by the St. Croix Unity Band, Concert Band and Steel Ensemble, the University of the Virgin Islands’ Voices of Inspiration and the Maillard Brothers. The event is free and sponsored in part by the Sunny Isle Management Office, according to D.O.E.

Feature Image: Yvonne Milliner-Bowsky Elementary School principal with students. (Credit: Aisha Zakiya)