From the Upper School

A message from Mr Riley, Head of Upper School

A massive thank you to all the girls and families who dropped in contributions to our ‘Undies Drive’ early this week. We are hoping to raise over 1,000 pairs by the end of this term and ask that you keep them coming! Wylie A are the early leaders and currently scheduled to win the High Tea prize.

It was great to see so many families at our Year 10 Subject Selection Night on Tuesday. This marks an important milestone for our girls as they consider what subjects they love and where they see their future career paths. Please do encourage your daughters to book in with our Futures Team to discuss their strengths, and to visit the Upper School should they need some advice on options available.

This week we also celebrated our French and Italian Exchange Students with a morning tea. It has been lovely having all 8 of them on campus and have loved hearing how school here differs to home.

We too have loved hearing from our exchange students in England and share a few memories and photos below:

Lara Hassall

We have had a half-term break and I spent the week in Ireland! It was beautiful, and I had so much fun. I never thought I would ever take a ferry over to Dublin, Ireland. I did so many fun activities such as a hawk walk, afternoon tea in the castle, dinner on the beach and so much more. I am currently writing this in business studies class which I have found very interesting. Taking different subjects has given me a better idea of what subjects I might be choosing for Senior School.

Alanah Scott & Tully Black

Over the past month, we have been on exchange in England experiencing the life of an English student. We have recently enjoyed a mid-term break which we are both sad has come to an end, as we greatly loved some extra holidays! During this time we both went to the Suffolk Show which is an agricultural version of the Easter show. We both were also lucky enough to travel to London for the weekend where we enjoyed sightseeing tourist attractions such as Buckingham Palace and the O2. We also braved the English sea, going for a swim at the local beach, Felixstowe, with some of our friends to celebrate the beginning of half term. Alanah also got the opportunity to travel up north to the Lakes District where she enjoyed some lovely warm weather and sunshine. She was able to go canoeing on the lake and wild swimming in the mountains! On the way back from the Lakes District she also was able to stop at Woolsthorpe Manor where she saw the house Isaac Newton grew up in as well as the famous apple tree!

Tully O’Regan

The Welsh Sea was as cold as we have been told about but I was fortunate enough paddle board and swim around in a wetsuit. I also thoroughly enjoyed borough markets, which are really pretty flower markets with huge pretzels. I have found the sightseeing highly interesting, especially when I saw the King and Camilla on a practice trooping of the colours event! We are having an incredible time and have made lots of new friends and met many different new people.