Year 6 Camp
I was most fortunate and grateful to join with our Year 6 cohort on their 4-day Canberra Experience. As I wrote to our Year 6 families,
‘… the Year 6 group of 2023 were awesome…such a pleasure to be with. Everywhere we went (and we went to a lot of places!), we received such lovely, positive and well-deserved feedback regarding the attitude, mindset, engagement and spirit shown by our girls and boys. And that echoes what we as a staff felt. Bedtime routines were calm, sleep came quietly and easily, meals were eaten with common sense, manners and tolerance, games were spirited and huge fun…and as a group of girls and boys, the interactions were respectful and led to strong friendship.
It’s not easy living communally for four days, and many of the places we visited, such as The Governor’s Residence, Parliament House and the War Memorial, require a high level of respect and appropriate behaviour…our Year 6s shone on every occasion.’
There were many highlights of camp, ranging from the sitting in the gallery at the raucous Question Time (and to the amusement and shock of our students, seeing Members ejected), having our Member for Deakin Michael Sukkar taking the time to come and greet us all (like or loathe his political standings he is always incredibly friendly and generous of time with our students), the solemn yet always engaging War Memorial, having a wonderful tour of the institute of Sport and being shown around the Governor-Generals residence.
Adam Kenny | Head of Boys’ Junior School
