Well, it’s been a very busy weekend in Old Portena welcoming everybody back to the boarding house. It’s been lovely to see all the girls so excited to return to school and catch up with all their new school friends. Very soon we’ll be posting photos from the surf camp that many Old Portena girls enjoyed. We’ve also got lots of fun activities planned in the run up to the Christmas break so keep following the blog for more updates!
It’s been a busy weekend with many activities going on. Today we enjoyed the good weather during our annual interhouse sports day including a variety of both usual and unusual sports. As you can see by the concentration and determination shown in the photos, it was a success. Although the final calculations and scores are still being verified, Old Portena house definitely showed that girls can be just as sporty as boys and we’re confident that we’ll be taking forward lots of points towards the overall house competition. There were a variety of games played over the course of the afternoon including tug of war, a three legged race and the ping pong ball on a spoon race. As you can see by the photos, much fun was had by all.
Firstly, we won the motto competition and Alison did a splendid job of representing our house at the presentation evening. Absolutely fantastic work from everybody! What a fantastic way to start off the weekend.
Every Friday in Old Portena the girls take part in an afternoon activity together after a busy week at school. This week, we split into teams and did an ‘Egg Drop Challenge’.
The aim was to shield an uncooked egg in some way to ensure that it didn’t crack when dropped from a height and onto the ground. Each team was given:
I am pleased to say that all the staff were very impressed by the intelligent designs made up by the teams. I think we definitely have some future engineers and architects in our house. Every egg survived! But most of all, we had a lot of fun and strengthened our new made friendships.
Here are some photos of the different teams at work.
