Wellbeing Wednesdays!!

Tonight we had our Wellbeing meeting where the boys chose their individual projects. As our community projects, we choose to participate in the football tournament, where we had our first game tonight against AC Leman. We also Welcomed Chaddy who arrived at the house today!! 

Today Manuel, Erik, and Antonio wore their new House hoodies.

Herman, Loris, Masafumi, Dyma, Louis, and Erik also wore their hoodies to school today.

This morning Erik and Antonio had a quick game of x’s and o’s on the bench with the morning dew

Some shots from tonight’s game! It was a great game. Both teams played extremely well. The game finished 5-5. Great start to the tournament and a fair result for both teams.

The boys are all happy after a great performance!!!

House photo after the game. Well done boys!!

How can sleep affect your brain?

Sleeping is definitely one of the most important functions of our body and it plays a key role in the regulation of all the other systems.

Lack of sleep provokes an unhealthy balance which can have visible effects in the short and long term. Obviously, one bad night of sleep is not enough to hugely disrupt our “machine” but several nights, in a row, without proper recovery can lead to several health problems and a dramatic lack of energy.

Hand in hand with it we also used our session to introduce our Boarding Counselling team who challenged us to try a few minutes of very simple meditation. The aim was simply to allow us to relax and it is visible that some took the challenge seriously while those in the back row, were quickly overwhelmed by the benefits of meditation and the help it provides to fall asleep.

All in all a curious experience for some and we will surely continue to work on this in future sessions.

A Weekend full of Fun and lots of Activities

Aryan took part in the STEAM club on Saturday. The challenge was to see if you could make and build some that would protect the egg from breaking if you dropped it from a height. Aryan managed to do this!! Nice work Aryan

Manuel was putting up some shorts after coming back from dinner Sunday evening

Erik also joined where he was working on his lay-ups and footwork!

All of the boys from Concha along with other boarding students got to enjoy the beautiful weather we had at the aquapark today. They all loved it!!

On Saturday the boys took a visit into Geneva. Some of them needed to collect items for the upcoming Mountain Weekend next week. After we all enjoyed the weather by the beautiful lake and Jet d’Eau 

Dmytro and Herman stopped for a quick snap.

Also Antonio and Maneul.

Herman, Dmytro and Aryan all enjoyed a game of Beach Volleyball.

Saturday evening Cooking with Antonio & Manuel

Manuel and Antonio snapped before starting to cook the Spaghetti

Manuel cooked one of favorite snacks! Bread, dripped in egg then lightly coated in cinnamon! All the boys loved it!!

Antonio delighted as he started to cook the pasta!

Antonio cooked pasta for some of the boys in the House tonight! The boys loved it! Antonio’s pasta lives up to the Italian standards!! It was delicious!

Louis, Loris Herman, Aryan, Manuel and Antonio enjoying the pasta while watching a movie .

 

Perfect Saturday night for the boys!! Pasta and Movie before bed.. All of them looking forward to visiting the Aquapark in the morning!

Wellbeing Wednesday

After dinner, we held our weekly house meeting where we discussed upcoming events for the weekend. We also discussed different options for the boy’s individual Wellbeing project for our Wellbeing Pillar 1 Healthy Body and Minds.

Some of the boys chose to practice Mindfulness for their individual project for Pillar 1. Masafumi, Yuto, Erik, and Manuel followed a guided body scan for 10 min before bed.

Antonio took part in the Golf Club tonight along with Manuel and Aryan.

Aryan played golf for the first time which he really enjoyed!

Manuel managed to land 4 balls in the umbrella! He only started playing Golf 6 months ago