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Week 3, Summer Term 2020

Jan Usher
Year 12 Ball, End to Enders and a quick recovery for our Captain Our Senior boys have and will be the centre of attention over the first 4 weeks of the term. Last Wednesday the Boarders Council introduced themselves and welcomed in the new boys at the first whole of Residential Life student meeting. One of the big themes from the Boarders Council is the emphasis they are placing on developing Residential Life spirit, unity and integration. Their plan is to achieve this through a multi-age competition-based approach with an emphasis on getting boys in all years involved in competitive activity.…

Year 6/7/8 House – Week 2

Drew Templar
Hi All Another huge week in the Year 6/7/8 residential house. Students started the week at Adventure world and had an amazing time. The warm weather was perfect for the water slides and lots of swims. The boys also had the Middle School Swimming Carnival this week. The conditions were extremely hot and being sun smart and staying hydrated were the key to success. Boys competed well for their houses and joined in with some great house spirit with chants ringing across the pool all day. Attached are some of the photos from both days out. Mr Faint from Middle School also took…

Year 9: 2 weeks in and we are learning how to Swim!

Sean Mecham
A very 'warm' Welcome to the Year 9 House Yes, the start of the year has brought the heat, but the boys have been cooling off in the pool, hitting the waterslides at Adventure World and competing at their first Senior School Inter-House Swimming Carnival. The above title: '2 weeks in and we are learning how to Swim' is also a metaphor for the boys moving from the Middle to Senior School and a shift from the Year 8 to the Year 9 Boarding House. We are already very proud of the boys who are making this transition a nice easy swim,…

2020 First week of Boarding – Year 6/7/8 House

Drew Templar
Wow!!! What a huge first week it has been in Boarding. Students have been learning a lot about living away from home, with the lessons on ironing clothes from Mrs Whetters being a very well attended session. Students are navigating their way through school timetables, boarding house routines and sport commitments, all the while trying to make new friends, meet new people and choose which foods to eat at meal times. I would like to thank all the staff for their support of the Boarding boys both academic staff at School and Residential staff in the boarding house. The staff have kept…

Week 1, Summer Term 2020

Jan Usher
Welcome from the Headmaster Dear Boarding Community Welcome back to 2020, a date which marks the start of a new year and decade at Scotch. I have no doubt that like most years, 2020 will hold enriching, challenging and vibrant experiences for us all. Speaking of challenges, it is important to recognise a lot of our rural friends across the country who have suffered so much as a result of the devastating bush fires. I happened to be overseas when the magnitude of this tragedy was unfolding, and the enormity of the 24/7 coverage by the BBC left no doubt about just how…

Middle School Residence: Bye to 2019 from Kim Whetters

Marcus Wilkinson
As we farewell our year 8’s on Speech Night  I know that I will have feelings of pride as I reflect on those young boys that arrived 2 years earlier unsure of everything and everyone in their new life in boarding. Those same boys have dealt with all the challenges of boarding life and are now confident and comfortable in themselves and in the boarding house that they now call home. As the Year 8’s settle into the year 9 house in the new year and face the new challenges of senior school, the year 7’s will become the ‘big boys’…

Week 8, Spring Term 2019

Marcus Wilkinson
Amazingly enough, another year down and this represents the last Blog for the year.  How quickly the time has passed!!  The boys have had a fantastic last term and though they are slowly getting a bit edgy, for the most part, they have held on and are going to finish off positively (touch wood!!).  It has been a busy few days with the Year 9 Boarding Graduation, the Middle School boys enjoying a night in Claremont on Thursday, the Year 11's participating in their last Tomorrow Man session and the Year 12's organising the activities last weekend.  Of course we…

Week 7, Spring Term 2019

Marcus Wilkinson
The 2019 Year 12's return tonight for their Valedictory dinner and we are all looking forward to reconnecting with them.  We are slowly edging closer to the end of the term and the boys at this stage are remaining on task and look like they are going to finish the year well and in good spirits.  With Saturday sport over and done with, the new Year 12's have organised a Residential Community Touch Rugby competition for Saturday morning which is open to all year groups and tonight (Friday) they are hosting a Community BBQ. With a week to go if you…

Week 6, Spring Term 2019

Marcus Wilkinson
Four weeks left of the term and one Bib Track journey to go!!  Our Year 13's have now officially left the building with Steve Li completing his last IB exam on Thursday afternoon.  As soon as he had finished he hit the road to Busselton to try and catch the last night of leavers!!  Our Valedictory dinner is next Friday night, and this is the last time all of this year's graduates will be together, so we are looking forward to seeing them all for one last time. To all our regional families we hope the Harvest is going well and…