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April 18th, 2023
Newly renovated FLPS opens with safer facility for Trinity term

EAST END, Tortola, VI – Children at the Francis Lettsome Primary School (FLPS) today, April 18, 2023, returned to a newly renovated building, according to At-Large Representative and Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture, Hon Sharie B. de Castro (AL) who expressed gratitude to sponsor Unite BVI for funding the renovation project.

March 18th, 2023
Francis Lettsome Primary School wins S.T.E.A.Mazing race 2023

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Teachers of the Francis Lettsome Primary School have won the S.T.E.A.Mazing Race as part of Virgin Islands (VI) Education Week 2023 which runs from March 13 to 19, 2023, with a week of educational activities with a focus on Science, Technology, Education, Arts, and Mathematics (S.T.E.A.M).

August 26th, 2022
Enis Adams Primary School re-opening to hybrid learning system

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Minister of Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, and Sports, Hon Sharie B. deCastro (AL) has indicated that with the reopening of schools to commence in two weeks for the 2022-2023 team, parents, students and teachers of the Enis Adams Primary School will be returning to a hybrid system learning system.

April 27th, 2019
UWI Guild donates bench, pledges to paint FLPS classroom

PARHAM TOWN, Tortola, VI – The University of the West Indies (UWI) through its Open Campus Guild of Students (BVI) initiated a community outreach program that saw the Francis Lettsome Primary School (FLPS) receiving a brand new lunch bench yesterday Friday, April 26, 2019.

November 5th, 2017
Many primary schools being restored through Adopt-A-School Programme

EAST END, Tortola, VI - The Francis Lettsome Primary School is one of the many schools that sustained damages throughout the Territory following the passage of Hurricane Irma on September 6, 2017 but is being restored through the Adopt-A-School Programme and parents.

May 22nd, 2017
FLPS are Little League Baseball Champions

SEA COWS BAY, Tortola, VI – Francis Lettsome Primary School survived a late rally to beat St George’s Primary, 10-8, on Sunday May 21, 2017 and lift the BVI Little League Baseball Association (BVILLBA) Schools Championship at the Roger Allen Hodge Park in Sea Cows Bay.

December 31st, 2016
Parents should be in custody too – Greenland resident

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – “This did not have to reach to this with those kids if some of those parents used to listen to other parents in the community,” was an opinion of a resident of Greenland and shared by other residents of that community as well as the wider East End Communities of Tortola.

December 30th, 2016
7 juveniles charged with burglarising primary school

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Police have charged seven juveniles, including two females, after they admitted to illegally entering the Francis Lettsome Primary School in Greenland at least three times over the holiday weekend, and engaging in widespread property damage.

June 30th, 2016
‘Beware of dream killers’- Hon Pickering tells exiting FLPS pupils

EAST END, Tortola, VI- Grade Six pupils of the Francis Lettsome Primary School (FLPS) came in for some stern advice when the Class of 2016 had its Exiting Ceremony at the East End/Long Look Community Centre yesterday, June 29, 2016.

May 31st, 2015
Businesses get involved in schools career fair

EAST END, Tortola, VI – Under the supervision of the schools’ principals and mainly Guidance Gounselor Shaunice A. Leonard, M.A., CMHC, B.S., three schools on the main island of Tortola over the past week saw young children dressing to their career choice while several business entities gave hands-on experience to the children.

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