This evening, we had our third meditation session of the term, and the boys found it very useful. We did a body scan which really allowed the boys to settle down before bed.
Wellbeing Wednesday – House Dinner 🍝 🇮🇹
This evening, with the help of Loris, Erik, Manuel, and Antonio, we had our first House Dinner of the 2021/22 academic year.
The boys helped the House Parents prepare two delicious pasta dishes, using fresh and local ingredients. Antonio also prepared bruschetta and Loris prepared salads.
For dessert, the boys enjoyed a well-deserved ice cream.
This meal was a big part of educating the boys about the importance of a healthy body, and healthy minds. It was fantastic to see them enjoying the meal as a family at home, laughing and joking throughout, but also seeing how satisfying it was to eat something they had planned and prepared.
Also, thank you to Mr Usher and Mr Salva for coming to visit us in the Boarding House!
BRAVI TUTTI! 🇮🇹
A lovely visit from the teachers! 🏡
Leysin, Vaud 🇨🇭
The students and staff had the most incredibly rewarding weekend in the mountains. We are all feeling very grateful! 🏔
We have arrived in Leysin! 🏔
This evening, we arrived in Leysin, had dinner and then participated in some fun activities in the hotel. Tomorrow, the boys will go mountain biking and orienteering.
Today we spent the day in Lausanne for Jeune Genevois
Group photo by the lake where we sat and ate our lunch.
All of the boys went to the Olympic Museum today. We got a House photo with Mr.Nathan and Mr.Ronan
Chaddy who arrived to the House yesterday, stood for a photo by the lake.
Erik, Antonio, Manuel, Masafumi and Yuto joined Chaddy for a nice photo by the lake!!
Louis really enjoyed the day in Lausanne and especially by the lake
Herman and Dymtro before leaving to go up to the museum
Antonio and Aryan playing a reflex game in the museum
Louis standing beside The Tokyo 2020 Gold Medal
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!