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.

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.

This weekend, despite the bad weather, we have continued to do various activities. On Friday and Saturday night we played intense games of Volleyball. On Saturday, those of our kids who didn’t go skiing stayed on campus and did activities such as tennis or photography.

We maintain the philosophy that we have set ourselves this term: to promote activities for the boys to enjoy themselves and have as much fun as possible with each other. Our Pillar 3 of the Well Being programme is focused on creating positive friendships, something that has been present since the beginning of the year. Some friendships are already well established and it is really nice to see that thanks to these kinds of activities, those friendships are becoming stronger and more valuable.

Friday’s match to decide who cleans the house.

Photo made by Sultan during his Photography activity.

Akihiro & Victor playing tennis on Saturday.

Yesterday we’ve headed up to the mountains for our second session of ski and snowboarding. Weather conditions were challenging but did not stop our students from having fun.

Professional ski and snowboard instructors lead the groups of our students.

Hanwen taking his turn on the snowboarding exercises

Daniel was also enjoying his time on the board.

In the other side of the mountain Azamat and his group were exploring the resort.

Ilya took also part of the ski lessons.

Saturday saw the first Ski day of the season. Our students had a bright and early start before setting off for the beautiful mountain resorts in Leysin and Villars. It was a bluebird day with brilliant snow conditions!!

Some of our boys fueling up before hitting the slopes

Snow level nearly reaching roof level in Villars