Today the Boarding community gathered to produce a video for our upcoming Spirit Week. The event this afternoon showed real togetherness and displayed a real sense of unity within our community, no matter where we are from. We cannot wait to see and share the end product.
It was a perfect day for all of us to get out on our bikes. Just to cycle through the forest and alongside streams, does so much for our health, and our wellbeing.
A fantastic effort by the Primary Boarding Students this evening. Some amazing costumes, and a lot of sweets collected. Thank you to all in our community who helped make their evening so special.
The autumn term brings the launch of our second pillar within our annual wellbeing programme. This pillar is called ‘Respecting diversity and protecting against bullying’.
For the next 7 weeks our students will explore their own thoughts and beliefs around inclusion, tolerance, empathetic communication and respecting and valuing difference. We will do this through the format of engaging students and houses in selected community and individual projects. We held a meeting in our Boarding House today to discuss the pillar, how they perceive the key themes that we have addressed and the specific roles they will play relating to these topics in the future.
Each student will be asked to talk about with their house parent about what they have learnt and what they found most rewarding about their projects. As with any of our wellbeing projects, we encourage creativity, time for self-awareness development and genuine reflection.
This pillars advocate is Mr Antonio, who is there to further support houses and students in the programme. The support however continues throughout the year and students are encouraged to approach our wellbeing advocates whenever they want to reach out to discuss a problem or gain advice.
All of the feedback will be communicated back to you through the end of term wellbeing report, where we will also take another moment to carry out the CDL wellbeing checklist. This will offer another opportunity to measure how your child is doing in key areas of wellbeing.
Our Primary Boarders were given the fantastic opportunity to attend a Drama workshop with Mr Massim0 on Friday evening. The boys played some brilliant games, they had lots of fun and learnt lots of new theatre skills. Thank you, Mr Massimo. We hope this becomes a regular thing.
Our primary boys looking very scary – Just in time for Halloween!!
We have reached the half way point of the first term, and it has been a brilliant start to the year. No matter what challenges and difficulties we face, all the boys in the Concha family show a mature and understanding attitude. It is time now to take a well deserved break and return in a week’s time refreshed and ready to go again. For those staying with us on campus, we cannot wait to get started with all the amazing trips and activities we have planned for you. Take care everyone. Please get in touch soon. For some of you, see you in a week. 🙂
What better way to spend a Saturday morning than to go for a bike ride through forests and alongside rivers.
It has been a busy start to this school year, and now we have reached the halfway point of the first term, it is a good time to get outside, unwind and switch off.
We embraced the fresh air and the beautiful nature, and we worked very hard physically. All of these factors form an extremely beneficial combination for our Wellbeing. Activities such as this one is perfect when nurturing our healthy bodies and minds.
Thursday evening saw the young Concha boys take on another senior boys Boarding House team, in the second installment of this year’s Football tournament.
The Concha boys started the game well with great tactics, shape and effort. With fantastic goals from Fady and Mr James, ConchAttack FC were leading at the half time whistle.
Half time: Concha 2 – 1 Leman
Leman started the second half with fury and quickly took charge of the game. Concha yet again showed great passion, incredibly hard work rate and there is a real sense of togetherness whenever we get together and play as a team. It is fantastic to see, it is a lot of fun and we are very proud of the attitude the young ones have when facing tough opposition from older students. Congratulations to Leman – they were worthy winners of the game and showed tremendous skill and teamwork throughout the game.
Final score: Concha 3 – 6 Leman
Man of the Match – Fady – he showed great ability and did not stop working throughout the whole game. Well done and thank you Fady.
Attendance – 8
Lovely weather to play games in the garden after study time. We would like to welcome Daniel who has joined us for the day to try out the Boarding experience.
