The tree is up in New Portena and as the cold weather has well and truly arrived, the girls are feeling more and more festive every day!
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Thanksgiving
New Portena girls enjoyed Thanksgiving celebrations at Mr Usher’s house!
They also wrote on coloured cards what they are thankful for in their life.
House Competition: Masterchef
Today was the sixth house competition of the school year; Masterchef. New Portena were given the challenge of making a Starter and the girls decided to focus on the diversity of our house to create a colourful and healthy dish.
Well done Dahlia, Natalina, Irina, Alessia and Alina! And a big thank you to Dahlia’s Mum for Facetiming us and making sure we didn’t face any culinary disasters.
Now to wait for the results….
Welcome Romina!
Today we had a new arrival in New Portena as Romina has joined our boarding family.
Welcome Romina, we hope you settle in quickly and have a great year at CDL!
Mexican Dinner!
Tonight we enjoyed an amazing Mexican dinner with a fajita feast and musical entertainment!
The guitar and ukulele group is back!
On Saturday afternoon the girls had fun playing the song Riptide with Costanza. The group will be back in two weeks.
National Honours Society
A massive congratulations to Margie who has been selected to be part of the National Honours Society! Well done Margie, we are all so proud of you.
Guitar group
On Saturday afternoon, Tatiana, Celine and Helen enjoyed a guitar and ukulele lesson given by Costanza. New Portena is becoming a very musical house. The music group will continue in two weeks when the girls will learn new songs.
