Boarding

This term has been jam packed with fun in the woods, hostage, capture the flag, sock-wrestling (don’t try it at home!), cinema nights, GBOF, camp fires and culminating in a lively game of Laser Tag. The boarders were creative for World Book Day (some creating their costumes from the dressing up box the night before!) and looked fantastic (see facing page).

Last term’s Star Competition winners were the Year 6 girls, and we enjoyed our reward at Nando’s for dinner out!

The Stars are awarded to boarders when they bring their reading book and record to reading time, for offering to help around the boarding house, for going the extra mile, and for doing the right thing.

We announced next term winners at breakfast on the last morning: Studham won again! Those girls have worked really hard for their Stars!

Year 6 boarders enjoyed a fun evening by the camp-fire, toasting the obligatory marshmallows! Thank you to Mr Darcy and Miss Bailey for organising this fun evening

On the last night of term, we had our traditional laser tag battle. The Blue Vs Red rivalry was competitive and it went into the last game as a draw with RED winning in the Last Man Standing battle. This final game is a tactical decision game: do you hide, and save your lives, or try to tag as many as possible, and win that way?! The boarders tagged the opposition from various strategic places: from the windows high above the Great Hall, from under the tables in the Annexe Dining Room (through the glass – clever!) from the boundary fence (it has a range of 80m!) and the boarding team even got to tag from the golf buggy!

Boarding “Good Egg”

Charlotte was the winner of the inaugural Good Egg Trophy.

This trophy was awarded to a boarder who does the right thing all the time, has integrity,is thoughtful, kind and generous with her smiles.

Thanks to Adam C who made this fantastic trophy for us!