For this week’s part of our Pillar 2, we focused on Discrimination and Diversity.

This week Hector did our presentation.

A lot of our Boarding students, including some of the Léman boys headed to Paris this weekend. They saw the sights, ate all the local food and had a fantastic time.

A huge well done to Vlad who has set himself the amazing goal of running 7km in this year’s Geneva Escalade. He has shown fantastic determination and an amazing attitude to achieve this goal and he has been training very hard. Keep up the good work Vlad.

Keeping Pillar 2 in mind, one way of promoting diversity and protecting others is to think of those less fortunate and who we can help. We, therefore, felt that for Christmas we could do gift boxes for those in other countries who are desperately in need of even the basic essentials, plus a little treat for the festive season.

The Boarding Community came together financially but more importantly with their time, energy and love to create these boxes.

This weekend the school had their first internal volleyball tournament. This was well represented by Leman 1 in which we had 7 students participating. As our students were mixed in different teams which means some more success than others, however, we still had Leman 1 players in the winning team!

This weekend we continued our weekly Community Service by tidying up our campus and the local area. We feel we have a duty to care for where we live and the land we borrow from nature. It is important for students to be able to give their time and energy and take this moment to reflect. Everything that they pick up, has been dropped by another person. If only we all took responsibility for our own trash and recycled it, we would all be living in a better place.

Following on from Pillar 1. We have embarked on our second Pillar.

Under the umbrella phrase of “Promoting Diversity and Protecting Against Bullying” we wish to focus on two takeaway points;

Bullying happens in different social settings – deals with the fact that bullying is not just related to racism and physical violence. It can be found in a lot of different social contexts and takes place for various reasons. It links with discrimination, and it is one way of expressing it.

Diversity: how can we work together? – As an opposite to discrimination we have diversity and all the options we have available to tighten our bonds and learn more about each other, again in a whole lot of different settings. Community Service and Charity allow us to perceive the world and people from a different perspective and encourage us to fight our stereotypes while at the same time granting us the possibility of working together for common causes.

Thanks to all the students who have helped tidy the campus this afternoon by removing any rubbish they came across.

Gabriel got on stage and spoke in front of the whole Boarding community this week to talk about the incredible work he did over the summer for wildlife preservation. We are incredibly proud of Gabriel’s passion for taking care of the environment and the work he did was amazing and very important.

What a match! A very close tie between the Léman and Concha Boarding Houses tonight. The game had skill, goals and fantastic sportsmanship. Well done boys.

Léman 5 – 2 Concha

The latest match of this year’s Basketball tournament saw the Léman boys take on Concha Boarding House. We did well to win the match but that was not the greatest moment of the evening. We were proud of how supportive our boys were towards the younger students and it was amazing to see the little ones look up to the senior boys as role models. It is important to our values that our students are kind and take care of each other.