KWS Prep School Fortnightly Bulletin

A Message from the

Head of Prep School

Term 3 Week 3

As we aware the drought is taking a devastating toll on farming families across New South Wales and Queensland.  There are many initiatives being implemented to assist the farming community through government aid, mental health programs and charitable organisations.

Students and staff have proposed many ideas and in the Bulletin under Notices you will read of a special charity event next Monday here at school.  Your donations will be greatly received. 

Students from Year 5 have recently completed research on the drought, their presentations were varied in their approach using different forms of media including an interview with Niall Blair, NSW Minister for Primary Industries.  Well done Alice Commins.

Congratulations to the following students who competed in the Australian Mathematics Trust Enrichment Challenge.  This competition obviously assesses mathematics knowledge but also requires teamwork and decision making.  Well done to:

  • Year 6 – Distinction – Thomas McRae and George Wakem
  • Year 5 – Credit – Hannah Jones, Daisy Wakem and Olivia Searle

Sport plays a significant part of the students’ development at KWS.  Sport is compulsory from Year 3 to Year 12 with skill development, teamwork, fair play and sportsmanship being integral to each sport.  While in professional sport, highlighted in the media, match officials are open to harsh and unfair criticism, it is not acceptable in our children’s sport.  Unfortunately, students see and hear this criticism and imitate this behaviour in their games.

I ask all parents and coaches to step in and prevent this behaviour from escalating.  The same goes for teamwork where students need to work together.  Too often it is easy to criticize another team member for an error, rather than work to improve.  Over the winter season these issues have arisen and we need to be mindful that sport should be enjoyable for all.  It is terrific to win and that is the aim but it should not override the elements of developing skills, working as a team, playing fairly and demonstrating sportsmanship to your own team, the opposition and to all match officials.  Your support would be greatly appreciated.

At Assembly we acknowledged the following students:

  • Courtesy Award:       Week 2 – Jack Carslake  |  Week 3 – Ricky Zhang
  • Citizenship Award:    Week 2 – Spencer Williams  |  Week 3 – Charles Hail
  • Principal’s Award:      Week 2 – Lillian Pearce  |  Week 3 – Alice Commins

Enjoy your week.

 

Mr Rob McLean

Head of the Preparatory School