Boarding Life Award

Congratulations to Loris for winning the Boarding Life award for Marking Period 1. This award is awarded to the student who fully embraces life in the Boarding House. Loris has really made Concha is home. Loris is doing well in school and shows great commitment to his extracurricular and weekend activities. He sets a perfect example to the other students in the House. Loris also won the Boarding Academic Award for his Grade. Out of all the Boarders in his Grade, Loris is currently achieving the best scores overall. Well done Loris.

Activities Award

Congratulations to Owen for winning the Activities award for Marking Period 1. Owen has participated in the most amount of activities out of all of our students. He is always excited and enthusiastic to participate in a range of fun activities, after school and at the weekends. He always has a great attitude when taking part in his activities and most importantly, he has fun! He is never afraid to try something new. Well done Owen

For those boys who have not won an award this time, we encourage them to keep trying, keep working hard and they will soon see the benefits from their hard work and positive attitude. Well done everyone!

In 1602, France attacked the then independent Geneva and they planned on capturing them. Since Geneva was so small, their military wasn’t as good as the french army so the people had to do it on their own. One night a woman was making sure that the french didn’t take her apartment. She threw everything against them and soon ran out of stuff to throw. In the end she threw boiling soup out of her window and the french army ran off and that’s the story of the escalade

This morning we explained the meaning and the historical significance of the esacalde to the rest of our Boarding House, and we smashed the chocolate marmite. In tradition, the oldest and the youngest person in the room get to break the marmite.

by Loris Baya (Grade 7)