A Message from the
Head of Prep School
Term 3 Week 5
Thank you for your support of ‘Fiver for a Farmer’ last week. Due to your generosity and special thanks to our Year 5 parents who prepared cupcakes and jelly cups for sale we were able to forward $2,230 to the organisation to assist our farming families. A terrific contribution and didn’t we see a range of flannelette shirts and boots!
I’ve been speaking to students about being good sports, respecting match officials and being a valued team member over the last few weeks.
Last weekend out 12’s Rugby team were billeted by Tudor House families in the Southern Highlands on the Friday evening before our game on Saturday morning. Every family I spoke to mentioned the manners, courtesy and friendliness of our boys. This was then evidenced in a strong game of rugby played in the right spirit and in conversations after the game. It was a pleasure to take the boys and our opposition are eagerly looking forward to visiting Orange next year. Well done boys.
This week our Koristers under the directorship of Mrs Kate Edwards are workshopping with Opera Australia to perform Madame Butterfly. A terrific opportunity for our young singers and we wish them every success.
Orange Eisteddfod is currently underway with Speech and Drama sections featuring a number of our students. Many students achieved success gaining places or winning sections. Congratulations to all who have already participated and all the best to those who perform in the next two weeks.
Our choirs, bands, string groups are all performing over the coming weeks and we look forward to their participation. Our Dance group achieved a highly commended last week. Well done!
In between Performing Arts our HICES Athletics team heads to Sydney next week for their big carnival. All the best to the team.
Yesterday at Assembly we held our Bookweek parade and activities. The students looked “very well read” in a variety of costumes. Our K-2 all paraded on stage and we heard parts of books that each class had focused on in library. We also had a quiz with teams being our Peer Support groups. Imn a closely fought contest the Douglas Donkeys came out on top.
Thank you to Mrs Pengilly and Year 5P for hosting the assembly and congratulations to Mrs Caro for her outstanding work in organizing all the activities.
We welcome back Mrs Charlton this week after her surgery and thank Mrs Caro for taking the class for the period of absence. Mrs Caro now returns to library duties.
As you know Mrs Alicia Holmes took maternity leave and last week gave birth to her second son, Patrick Paul Holmes. We congratulate Alicia and her husband Michael and wish them every happiness.
At Assembly we acknowledged the following students:
- Inclusiveness Award - Lucas Choi
- Inclusiveness Award - Amelia Hill
- Inclusiveness Award - Alice Waddell
- Principal’s Award - Scarlett MacKenzie
Enjoy your week.
Mr Rob McLean
Head of the Preparatory School