Saturday saw the first Ski day of the season. Our students had a bright and early start before setting off for the beautiful mountain resorts in Leysin and Villars. It was a bluebird day with brilliant snow conditions!!
Saturday saw the first Ski day of the season. Our students had a bright and early start before setting off for the beautiful mountain resorts in Leysin and Villars. It was a bluebird day with brilliant snow conditions!!
Next week here at CDL we Embrace the R in the schools RISE slogan, by dedicating the week to embracing and promoting RESPECT. The Boarding community has kicked things off early this weekend, by walking around the local area, having a little clean up and collecting litter. The student from Olympus were keen to be part of this initiative and collected bags for recycling and rubbish. The RISE week will be celebrated for the full week and we have more activities planned to promote this wonderful week of celebration.
We all have friends, but how often do we really think what they mean to us? Tonight the Grade 12 boys sat with Mr Tom and discussed Friendships and how to make sure we are surrounded by positive people. To identify this we have to go to the beginning, to the foundations we need to build a friendship. From the discussions we had the all revolved around a relationship that is built and based on Mutual respect for each other, the word RESPECT was brought up more than anything else.
The boys split into two groups and brainstormed…… One group talked about what they thought were the characteristics of a Positive friend and the other group did the same for a Negative friend. The groups list almost mirrored each other at opposite ends, and again the word respect and loyalty were top of the list.
The boys were then asked by Mr Tom, to write on a thin piece of card what a true friend meant to them, and what attributes they look for in a friend…….it will be no surprise that the most common answers were Trust, Loyalty and Respect. The boys are all very aware of the need for surrounding themselves with positive friends.
Boris is this weeks Boarder of the week, earning his grade 50pts in the process from the lucky bag. Boris has been helping around the house as usual and also he was a key figure in the Global sports competition that CDLwere part of and Boris helped us achieve 3rd place out of 30 schools. Well done Boris
This week we spoke about this months Well-being topic, Building Positive friendships. We asked the guys who has ever felt the influence of peer pressure, shown here by them raising their hands.
We finished the evening assembly of as usual with a small in house competition. This week, it was all about the power of the mind. We took two members from each grade and Challenged them to a memory game. They had 30 seconds to look at 30 items on the table and then 3 minutes to try and remember as many as possible.
Yesterday Mr.Usher gave the first Boarding assembly of the New Year. Virtually of course. Wellbeing Pillar 3 was introduce also; Building positive friendships
Mr.Tom presents Michel with the house cup, he is accepting it on behalf of Grade 9. Grade 9 came out victorious in last months race to the top of Mount Olympus!