Our teacher of years 5 and 6, Shane Watts-Thomas, flew across to New Zealand on Wednesday late afternoon to attend a wedding, he’ll be back on deck next Tuesday, and it’s my pleasure to guide our youngest students for the couple of days he’s away. This is a great opportunity for me to get to know these boys a little better. I have to say, and as parents you will know what I mean, working with eleven year-olds is very different to working with sixteen year-olds. – Five years in the life of a child is very significant! This short stint in our Primary School has now allowed me to get to know all of the students of our college quite well.
We are certainly on the ‘Home Straight’, – with the end of IFS’s first term only days away. As with the end of most college terms, time appears to speed up and there’s a race to complete all tasks before the break begins. As if that wasn’t enough, the end of a term is often packed with ‘extras’. This term, just one week before the end, we have the Easter Break which results in two short weeks, then to top it off there are futsal games on next week, shortening the final week even further and meaning that we’re cramming a lot of work into a short period of time. Given the intensity of this first term and the ‘newness’ of everything for everybody, it nevertheless feels like a good way to end the term – being super busy then ‘winding down’ in the last week, it has after all been such an incredible number of weeks since we began in late January. I believe that we are all looking forward to the coming break and a bit of R & R before we return to face our first winter term on Mt Penang.
Regards,
Rodney
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