Bob Meakin, Deputy Headmaster & Head of Senior School

Dear Parents and Carers

Yesterday’s assembly was largely student led with so many areas of the School being celebrated. I commend the 350 boys who have volunteered for Clean Up Australia Day giving up their Sunday to serve their community. The promotion of the celebrations for International Women’s Day are in full swing, tying in our Service trip to Ladakh and their efforts to raise funds for sanitary products in this area. This shows an incredible and maturity a service driven mentality towards assisting women with the most basic needs, who are unable to access these products themselves.

Other presentations included the Student Investment Club and there was a comprehensive and humorous review of the school music tour which definitely added some spice to the Senior School assembly. I praised our students in Year 12 for their ongoing care and attention to our younger boys in the School. This distributed strategy of care for our younger boys is working tremendously well and I thank Year 12s for their keen attention to this excellent focus. We also congratulated Hone House on winning the House Swimming Carnival, narrowly seeing off Harvey for the trophy.

We look forward to welcoming Waverley this Friday for our final home game of Basketball; Mr Grice encouraged as many students to support our boys for our final home game as possible.

Year 7 Vaccination Clinic: the Public Health School Vaccination Programme for Year 7 students is being held on Wednesday 6 March. Year 7 parents have been emailed by the Health Centre with information on how to provide parental consent online or via a paper copy. For parents who are yet to provide consent, completion at your early convenience would be appreciated to assist Public Health staff in determining staffing and stock levels for next week. If there are any queries, please email HealthCentre@cranbrook.nsw.edu.au.

We look forward to the Year 12 Parent/Teacher Interviews (online) on Wednesday 6 March.

Finally, the Headmaster did advise the School of some disappointing potential media coverage and he reminded the students that they are the culture of the School, and that this should not be distracting from the core business of teaching, learning and engagement with one another in this community.

Best wishes,

Bob Meakin
Deputy Headmaster & Head of Senior School