Forward July 2015 | Page 47

PR E PA R ATORY S C HO OL Zoe Langtry (Vice-Captain), North Quarter – Braydon Fernandes (Captain) and Aidan McCrum (Vice-Captain), South Quarter – Brayden Scully (Captain) and Elijah Hewett (Vice-Captain) and West Quarter – Earl Wijayananda (Captain) and Will Bates (ViceCaptain). Our Specialist Captains for 2015, nominated by our Specialist Teachers are William Bromage (Art), Braydon Fernandes (Chapel), Grace Matthews (Library), Niall Overton (Music) and Aidan McCrum (Sport). All these Captains and Councillors committed themselves to serve in their various capacities by sharing a public pledge with all present at this prestigious Assembly. All other Year 6 students are given the opportunity to serve as Monitors across the school – we have Art Monitors, Chapel Assistants, Library Monitors, Music Monitors, Sport Monitors and Special Services Monitors who fulfil duties such as lost property, setting up the hall for Chapel/Assembly/Congo/ Time Out and raise the flag each morning. In 2015 it has been extremely pleasing that every one of our Year 6 students have taken the opportunity to serve in at least one of these various capacities. Our Councillors were privileged to attend the 2015 National Young Leaders Day in the Perth Exhibition and Convention Centre on 6 March 2015 – this opportunity made a very positive impact on our young leaders, and certainly placed them in an enthusiastic frame of mind to make a difference in the school. Our Councillors perform various duties across the school on a daily basis – playground duties during recess and lunch, sharing their thoughts with the school at our Friday Assemblies, doing wet weather duties in their designated classes of responsibility, having lunch with these classes on a Tuesday, arranging fun-filled activities for the students in their year of responsibility, presenting students in their classes of responsibility with birthday cards, congratulations cards, get well cards and generally getting to know these students. During the course of the year our student leaders participate in and perform in countless school functions, and represent the school at IPSHA functions. We thank our student leaders for the massive contribution they make to the life of the School, realising fully that these duties and expectations add to their already full workload in their academic work, sport program and participation in areas of music and drama. There can be no doubt that this year of leadership and service stands our boys and girls in excellent stead as they develop into positive contributors to future school years, and life beyond school. We wish them well for whatever the future holds for each of them. To William and his team – we congratulate and salute you for a job well done. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell Mr Roger Budler Deputy Headmaster 47