Junior School

Junior School Parent/Teacher Interviews

Information about the upcoming Junior School Parent/Teacher interviews has been shared with families through last week’s Especean and by direct communication to parents. I will not repeat the details here, but will add one detail I omitted from last week’s messages:

Students are required to attend the interview in full College winter uniform.

The class teachers and I are very much looking forward to seeing you face to face in 

Week 9!

Year 6 Excursion

Parents and carers of Year 6 students will be aware that today the students attended the matinee performance of the College’s Performing Arts Production, Animal Farm. I hope there will be a lot of dinner conversation about the play tonight – not only its plot and themes, but the wonder live theatre can provoke. I vividly recall one of my early experiences of live theatre and the thrill of excitement I experienced at seeing what is possible to create on stage. The cleverness of stagecraft still amazes and entertains me. I sincerely hope that all Year 6 boys will be encouraged by today’s excursion to support the annual College production in years to come, and that many will be inspired to get involved themselves when they move into the Senior School. 

Breaktime Activities

Many boys are enamoured with the prospect of playing handball each and every break time; some are wide-eyed at the prospect of running free on the ovals day after day. Other boys love to sit and chat in the Powell Pavilion and some love the opportunities for reading, work, and board games the Westcourt Library offers at lunch. Another option for social play many students enjoy is playing card games such as Pokémon. This fluid and flexible group usually set themselves up at the top of the Powell Pavilion, but children are also permitted to make their way down to the picnic tables in Smollett Place to join with the senior school students playing these card games if they would like. The older students at these tables were often the children at the top of the Powell Pavilion only a year or two ago! We encourage this as a good opportunity to form shared-interest relationships with like-minded students from older grades.

God Bless.

Ben Munday

Director of Junior School