Bishop Anstey
Junior School
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About the school

A co-educational Anglican primary school in St. Ann's, Port of Spain, founded in 1939.

How BAJS was formed

The school takes its name from Bishop Arthur Henry Anstey, Anglican Bishop of Trinidad, whose vision for the education of children in the diocese led to the founding of a kindergarten in 1939 at the Victoria Institute in Port of Spain.

The kindergarten was incorporated into Bishop Anstey High School, and the school was dedicated on 2 February 1940.

In 1959 the junior school was separated from the High School and placed under its own headmistress.

In September 1966 the school moved to its present home on the Monte Cristo Estate in St. Ann's, a green riverside campus. Its four houses are named after four principals.

Bishop Anstey Junior School Campus

Our principals, 1940 to present

  1. 1940 to 1950
    Miss Dorothy C. Shrewsbury
  2. 1950 to 1959
    Miss Christine F. Sutherland
  3. 1959 to 1965
    Miss Monica Eardley-Wilmot
  4. 1966 to 1972
    Mrs. Mona K. Georges
  5. 1972 to 1981
    Mrs. Jennifer Als
  6. 1981 to 1988
    Mrs. Marva Prada
  7. 1988 to 1993
    Miss Joyce Kirton
  8. 1993 to 1998
    Mrs. Glenda Charles-Harris
  9. 1999 to 2002
    Dr. Patricia Dardaine-Ragguet
  10. 2002 to 2007
    Miss Grace Campbell
  11. 2007 to present
    Ms Tina Schuler

Our school song

[School song recording]
Bishop Anstey Junior School song We sing with hearts and voices clear Guided by faith, and love, and truth, Through every passing year.

Our houses

The school's four houses are named after four principals: Shrewsbury, Robinson, Gocking, and Foster.

Our sister school

Bishop Anstey High School, from which BAJS grew, remains our sister school.

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