Sandstorm Ski Day for the Boys

The boys were treated to a very different skiing experience on Saturday, when they traveled to Les Crosets and Morgins to Ski. As we drove through the mountains, and neared the ski resort the sky turned red and began to rain sand.

This phenomenon occurs very rarely, and is caused by sand taken up into the atmosphere from the Sahara desert, falling as rain. The sand caused the sky and the snow to turn red, and was an extremely strange atmosphere to ski in. That said a great day was had by all the students, and they cant wait to get back into the mountains next week.

Wednesday night is meeting night

Michel received boarder of the week where he pulled out 50 house points of the bag

In the house competition the G10’s are in the lead. G12’s are now in second place after coming out on top in the house competition tonight.

 

 The final scores of tonights house competition which was a Kahoot on Flags of the world.

 

 

 

Wellbeing Session – Peer Pressure

We continue to develop Pillar  3 of our well being program. Today it was the turn of the Grade 9s on the topic of “Peer Pressure”.

We defined what “peer pressure” is and why we sometimes are influenced by what our social group says and thinks. Sometimes even against what we really want to do.

Finally we put the boys in real life situations where we often find ourselves between the dilemma of what we should do and what kind of comments or opinions we can listen to from our social group in such a situation. We asked them to act by pressuring their friend into doing something they didn’t want to, and also to encourage them to do what is right.

Encouraging against Pushing – Building Positive Friendships

Today after dinner we sat down with Grades 10 and 11 for the Wellbeing Session focusing in Building Positive Friendships.

 

Students were given scenarios to either encourage or push their colleagues.

We spoke about the qualities which enlighten friendships. The boys spoke about respect, loyalty, love and taking care of each other.

We also spoke about qualities that we don’t want to have in a friendship such us jealousy, betray, peer pressure and arrogance.