{"id":4920,"date":"2021-05-12T10:27:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T00:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/?post_type=article&p=4920"},"modified":"2021-05-12T10:27:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T00:27:47","slug":"a-note-from-our-senior-boarding-housemaster","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/article\/a-note-from-our-senior-boarding-housemaster\/","title":{"rendered":"A Note From Our Senior Boarding Housemaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been a fantastic and extremely busy yet successful start to Term 2 for our boarders, building on a tremendous Term 1 when we saw some normality start to return and our community come together once again.\u00a0 We look forward to this continuing in Term 2, fingers crossed, as boarding houses open up again to welcome our parents and sidelines are lined once more with proud, cheering mums and dads.<\/p>\n

After the concerns that Covid-19 presented last year and all the restrictions it placed on large group outings, Shore boarding has also started once again our Sunday excursions for the whole boarding community.\u00a0 Already, the boys have enjoyed a trip to Raging Waters, organised brilliantly by boarding supervisor and Activities Director, Tim Morrison.\u00a0 After Anzac Day on Sunday, Week 1 and House charity days on Sunday, Week 2, many of our boarders from some of the Houses enjoyed Laser Tag on-site in Week 3, where Laser Warriors came to us, set up a course around Shore and off they went! It was a fabulous afternoon, not forgetting that our boarders have exclusive use of the pool every Friday and Sunday afternoon and gym\/weights room on Sunday afternoons.\u00a0 Coming up will be a Year 7-9 Social with Pymble Ladies College and two more Sunday activities plus the Inter-House Touch Football tournament.<\/p>\n

After more than 12 months, our formal Friday lunch returned this term.\u00a0 On these occasions, our boarders enjoy a sit-down, served formal meal as the Headmaster or Deputy visit to hand out pink cards and address the boys.\u00a0 It seems such a long time since we have had a meal together without split seatings and staggered dining hall entries.\u00a0 Talking about food, our catering staff have gone out of their way to spoil our boarders this year, treating them to themed or special meals; pig and lamb on a spit, seafood and chorizo paella, a gourmet pie lunch with a huge salad bar, lamb shoulder, lamb shanks with baked potatoes and Asian nights to name a few.\u00a0 Finally, while on food, our recent Boarders\u2019 Rep meeting raised the issue of Uber Eats.\u00a0 We do not encourage boys to order Uber Eats or any other takeaway food options \u2013 we work extremely hard to ensure our boarders are served tasty, nutritious meals and there is no reason for boys to be spending large amounts of money ordering meals off-site.\u00a0 It has come to our attention that some boys do not even bother visiting the dining hall, then order food elsewhere and explain their bank statement spending on unreasonable, inaccurate justifications.\u00a0 Please encourage your sons to make the most of what Shore supplies food-wise.\u00a0 As mentioned, we work very hard to ensure that our catering looks after our boarders, and some parents are paying inordinate amounts of money unnecessarily.\u00a0 Thank you in advance for your support.<\/p>\n

Finally, on Sunday May 2, Shore Boarding really showed what is made of in helping others less fortunate than themselves.\u00a0 As a collective, our four boarding houses and their families raised a total of $30,900.\u00a0 I have said it before, but it cannot be overstated how significantly our boys punch above their weight, across so many spheres in the School.\u00a0 Keep an eye out for the reports each House post elsewhere in this newsletter, for they make for amazing reading.\u00a0 Thank you to all of you who contributed so generously to our causes, the Cancer Institute and Human Nature Adventure Therapy.<\/p>\n

Wishing everyone a great term, and we look forward to seeing you soon around the campus or on the sporting field.<\/p>\n

Best wishes,
\nBrendan<\/p>\n

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It has been a fantastic and extremely busy yet successful start to Term 2 for our boarders, building on a tremendous Term 1 when we saw some normality start to return and our community come together once again.\u00a0 We look forward to this continuing in Term 2, fingers crossed, as boarding houses open up again […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-4920","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/4920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=4920"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/shore-boarding-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=4920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}