On Thursday 8 February a group of 16 College leaders were privileged enough to spend the day at Year 7 Camp. The day saw us work through a rotation of activities with our respective houses, including general fitness, origami, boxercise, meditation/yoga, team building and concert preparation. All of the activities were aimed at teaching valuable lessons in teamwork, cooperation and collaboration, and of course designed for maximum enjoyment.
One of the day’s activities was to work with the 7s to create a skit for the camp concert to be held after dinner. Hosted by the Year 7 Captains - Katie and Michael - the Year 7s from each House, and their Senior House leaders had the task of entertaining the crowd within a 10-minute window. While all performances were excellent, Veivers eventually took out the prize for best skit. Fortunately, the amazing performances in no way outshone the fantastic senior dance (or you could say poorly sung performance) to Justin Bieber’s classic Baby.
Year 7 camp is a great opportunity for all year 7s to bond as a House Group and get to know everyone in their cohort. It is also a really special opportunity to allow the Year 7s to know their Senior Leaders better and form friendships that will last into the future. We trust the Year 7s had as an enjoyable time, as did the seniors who attended.
We can’t wait to work with the Year 7s again in the near future!
Life is not always fun and easy. What do we do when bad things happen in our life?
Resilience is a fancy word that means being able to deal or cope with difficult situations in life. A resilient person is able to bounce back and keep going when things get tough and maintain their sense of who they are as a person.
Students learnt that there are many different abilities to being resilient:
The Bouncing Back workshop was a great chance for students to role play and apply these skills in social situations.
The following swimmers placed in the top ten in their main events: Connor Borkowsky, Jaxson Brimble, Mia Collins, Millie Entwistle and James Sneesby.
While the following swimmers were State Sprint medallists: Ky Codd (Bronze 15 years 50m Breaststroke) and Jorja Otto (Silver 13 years 50m Butterfly and silver 50m Backstroke).
Finally, the Somerset Swim Club had three State Champions being current student Harrison Smith (17 to 18 years 50m Breaststroke) and former student CJ Licuanan (17 to 18 years 50m Freestyle) as well as Cameron Donovan (14 years 50m Breaststroke).
Congratulations to Somerset Swimmers on a fantastic meet and some impressive results. A special mention goes to Lachlan Kerry and Cameron Donovan who showed great team spirit over the weekend helping team mates when needed. A big thank you also goes to Coach Cheryl for coaching and supporting our swimmers over the course of the weekends racing.
The next few weeks are busy with swimming over a number of areas. The Somerset Swim Club is sending seven athletes to the Commonwealth Games Trials at Southport from 28 February to 3 March. These will be James Roberts, Ben Treffers, Yolane Kukla, CJ Licuanan, Luke Percy, Blake Jones, and Andrew Digby with Coach Ash leading the swimmers and Coach Cheryl assisting. We wish the swimmers the best of luck for the selection trials and will be watching on TV. There are tickets available for families to go along and see the event live as well. In addition to this, next week is South Coast selection trials at Miami Pool on Monday. The College has quite a few swimmers attending to gain selection on the South Coast Team to attend the State Championships in March. Good luck to these swimmers.
Happy Swimming!
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