The 2012 grad­uands of North­Gate Col­lege, St Au­gus­tine were chal­lenged to go out in­to the next stage of their lives free from the fear of mak­ing mis­takes. Speak­ing at the school's Awards Cer­e­mo­ny at the Learn­ing Re­source Cen­tre at The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) St Au­gus­tine cam­pus on June 23, Bevil Wood­ing told the teenagers: "Mis­takes al­low you to learn and to in­no­vate and try new things, ... as you come to run the world." Wood­ing an­nounced a new ini­tia­tive, which he said was de­signed to thrust North­Gate Col­lege even fur­ther in­to the van­guard of tech­nol­o­gy-dri­ven ed­u­ca­tion. The Bright­Path Jump­Start pro­gramme will soon be launched as a pi­lot project at the col­lege. The ini­tia­tive aims to pro­vide tech­ni­cal train­ing for teach­ers, en­abling the col­lege to take the lead in ap­plied dig­i­tal ed­u­ca­tion­al tech­nol­o­gy.

Yolande La Pierre, di­rec­tor of the col­lege re­flect­ed on the col­lege's achieve­ments over the years, not on­ly in aca­d­e­mics, but in sports, ex­tra-cur­ric­u­lar ac­tiv­i­ties, na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tions, and var­i­ous in­ter­nal­ly or­gan­ised chal­lenges in which stu­dents par­tic­i­pat­ed dur­ing dur­ing the aca­d­e­m­ic year. Vale­dic­to­ri­an Tim­o­thy Hinds of the Up­per Sixth Form class cap­tured the li­on's share of the aca­d­e­m­ic prizes at the sixth-form lev­el. Lyn­dell By­er re­ceived a num­ber of fifth-form aca­d­e­m­ic prizes, as well as the Ce­cile Tay­lor Com­mu­ni­ty En­hance­ment Award for the preser­va­tion of the North­Gate cul­ture. Oth­er spe­cial awardees were sixth-for­mer Cher Best, who cap­tured both the Chair­man's Award and the Busi­ness Award, and fifth-for­mer Joshua Thomas, who took the es­teemed North­Gate Col­lege Award.