This is a story book which tells the history of schooling on each of four remote British islands in the South Atlantic - St Helena, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha and the Falklands. It acts as an historical document in capturing and preserving an important part of the heritage of each of these islands by committing their own story of schooling to paper. As a source of data for students of educational history anywhere in the world, it provides a reference book about the development of four unmatched systems of education which have been shaped by the history and circumstances of the particular island itself.