Nov
26
2020

Can you riddle me this: What rhymes with agreeing❓

Posted by

It’s Wellbeing! Thursday at Olympus is a round of the Pillars for grade 12 with Mr Tom and grade 9 with Mr Rodrigo. Agreeing could almost be a synonym for diversity: we agree to respect each other despite our differences. After their respective activities, we had a planner check with our students. Hands up and show us your homework! It’s the planner police. We hope they haven’t been too busy watching The Crown to write down their homework…!

Mr Tom prepared an activity revolving around a Kahoot quiz with the group of grade 12. It gets the debate starting around questions of diversity and the boys’ wellbeing. The boys are on their phones in order to play the quiz.

Mr Tom unveils the results of the Kahoot. Wide grins !

At the end of Mr Rodrigo’s activity everyone got their planners out. Some have used them quite a lot.

And that’s a wrap! Planners back in their schoolbags and boys back in their rooms ready for bedtime. It’s the remains of the day.

 

 

Nov
25
2020

Olympus has Fallen…. the Big Jenga edition 😂 💯

Posted by
Wednesday evening means house meeting. We gather around Tom, as if the warm hearth, and he gives us the good and ill news. For this occasion we discussed our new system of house points…. a healthy dose of competition does wonders to the boys’ well-beings. Wednesday brings as well another nugget of joy: the house competition. On this evening we had a boy of each grade represent their group at jenga. Watch the pieces of Olympus come crashing down: things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.

A grand panoramic of the house meeting. Revel at the enormous common area…!

Mr Tom shared his presentation with all the key points of the evening. Courtesy of Prezi.

We watched a video about knitting for charity. Tis the time to be charitable! Twas the Night before Christmas…..

Boris goes for…. what might it be?

It’s 50 house points! Boris is boarder of the week.

Mirsadi unveils the night’s challenge. Ilya watches in awe. The stars are aligned ! May the odds ever be in your favour.

Gabriel smiles at the camera’s candid eye. Ilya attempts his chance at success. Referees take pictures and encourage the players. They surround the almighty Jenga tower. Babel can shrink in comparison.

Mr Ronan is responsible for this great low perspective shot. Mirsadi tries his best at balance. Said watches on, probably hoping for it all to come crumbling down!

 

All victorious on the Western Front: Sasha smiles at his victory, Ilya stands proud as second in the game. The flag of Switzerland watches us always!

 

And an update on our house points mountain board. Mr Tom has enabled a system of magnets to slide the figures up and down hill. Grade 12 are back in the lead ! See you next for more competition, and Wellbeing. It’s a good night from us ! Over and out.

Nov
22
2020

Determination and Discipline; excellent ingredients for the Well-being of our students.

Posted by

It’s a pleasure to share so many moments with Boris. Every weekend, Boris delights us not only with his company but also with details of his culture and family.

This weekend he shared with us a Kiwi cake recipe.

He followed step by step his mother instructions.

And his cake represented Olympus house at the Bake Off competition. We are still awaiting for the results, however the cake tastes incredible. yummy!

 

We also admire the discipline and determination that Boris has with his physical condition as he trains almost daily.

And what can we say about his companionship and solidarity with the little ones. Very happy to have you with us Boris.

Nov
21
2020

Tour du Canton

Posted by

Mr Rodrigo and Mr George, from the house of Léman ,took the biking group into the canton of Vaud. Sounds like a far away idea but in fact… it is only a 5 minute bike ride away ! However the rules change from one canton to the other: in that of Geneva we had to be split into two groups, whilst in Vaud we could rejoin as a group of nine. Borders — what are they good for?

Aoto and Ryunosuke somewhere in the frontier between Geneve and Vaud

 

A pause on the way

 

Just… a scene of Wellbeing

 

A candid picture on our return to CDL

Nov
19
2020

Wellbeing II: Responding to Cyberbullying 💻

Posted by

All of our students at boarding are members of Generation Z, or Zoomers, which means that their social life has grown from and revolves, whether we like it or not, around social media platforms. This is inalienable fact. It is why a major part of their Wellbeing is through a better understanding of their interactions online. The boys partook in a workshop with Mr Rodrigo about the growing problem of cyber-bullying. We hope they learnt something beyond ”cyberbullying is really bad.” And they’re not wrong!

Mr Rodrigo questions what the boys understand as cyberbullying. The answers are more surrepticious than one might expect.

The students took a quiz on responses to cyberbullying. There was heated debate about the options open to them.

Nov
18
2020

House Competition: The (football) Tables turn

Posted by

After our house meeting about the plans for Skiing in 2021, we proceeded to a session of our house competition — the grades competed against each other on the table football. The final was a tight game of Grade 12 against, surprisingly, Grade 9, with a win over just 1 goal. A healthy dose of competition is sure to boost their Wellbeing!

Mr Miguel oversees a game between Francisco M and… Francisco M. The football table here takes the place of a mirror.

 

Grade 9 practice for the final. A surprising turn of events!

 

Said, Francisco and Sadi and Daniel enjoying their table football dose of wellbeing.

Max and Boris against the finalists.

A shot of the final game: a shot of adrenaline! The boys of grade 12 pulled through, by just one goal. Well done. boys!

Nov
16
2020

Charity Gift Box Appeal – Promoting Diversity

Posted by

Over the weekend some of our boys went to help prepare presents for this year’s gift box appeal.The annual gift box project is a project where students choose to participate by donating either money or items. This includes items like toothbrush, soap, school supplies, socks, toys, chocolate and etc. Essential items that make their lives easier. The boxes are sent to needy children in orphanages, schools and hospitals in Eastern Europe who are living below poverty.

This is a great event and the boys were delighted to be part of this. It shows that we as a community are willing to help and do something nice for other people, no matter what country or background they come from.

This also means that some of our boys have completed their individual projects for the second Wellbeing Pillar – Protecting against bullying and promoting diversity.

Michel, Nikita, Hamza and LuLu all helping Ms.Lucélia.

 

Packing the boxes.

Nov
15
2020

I like to Ride my Bicycle, I like to Ride my Bike

Posted by

Sunday was a beautiful day, a group of boys from the House and Mr Tom went for a local bike ride around the local area. The weather was amazing and the views to match, and if you look closely you can see Mt Blanc poking her head out in the distance of this photo.

 

Fransisco was ahead of the group leading the way, the boys spoke of  how amazing the local woods are and their desire to someday go camping, this is something we will definitely look into in the future.

The boys had a little history lesson on the ride, as we came across and old defensive post from the Swiss Army, here you can see Ryunosuke having a good look inside the small quarters for 3 men.

There were some uphills and some downhills, even though David seems to still argue this, he remembers it all being uphill.

Nov
15
2020

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

Posted by

This week we listened to the words of Jack Johnson and decided to take steps to be better at Recycling in the House. We have always recycled in the Olympus Boarding House but we thought that we could do better, and what better way to motivate the boys than some healthy competition.

 

As is the case with majority of the planet, plastic bottles are a not in short supply in the house, so to encourage the boys to recycle their bottles every time they have finished them, we are now offering 1 House point per bottle recycled, these points will go towards the overall House Competition.

 

As you can see we have had a successful first week, and the Grade 10s are well ahead.