The former St David’s Boys’ School is now a nursery school, which is named after a kind-hearted caretaker who touched the lives of hundreds of students who passed through the school’s doors.
The Thelma Berry Nursery School is the name of the new institution, which admitted pupils in September 2011, and is presently running at full capacity with a roll of 76 pupils, four class teachers, one coordinator, one senior teacher and one teacher’s aide.
During an official opening of the school yesterday, Stephen Berry, son of the former caretaker who died at age 80 in April 2009, said that for 21 years his mother went beyond the call of duty to carry out tasks that were not necessarily in her job description and was a prolific worker and a champion caregiver – some even called her the modern-day Mother Theresa, he said.
He added that many who attended the St David’s School in those years would remember that his mother, who had eight children, looked out, quite naturally and from the heart, for those who needed someone. (AH)
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