MS Residence – Week 10, Autumn Term 2022
Hi Y7 Parents,
We are off and hiking … The first Bibbulmun Track walk was a great success, apart from the disappointment of not getting KFC on the way home, but all is good as we got some delicious pies and we will all celebrate at Grill’d, when the remaining boys finish their first hike next term …
The skills, values, and resilience that the Bibbulmun Track offers is crucial to our boy’s development as young men and the mateships they build with each other unites them even more.
After, walking with the current Year 12’s into Albany a couple of weeks ago, it was so good to see how strong these boys were as a group and to see what amazing human beings they had become.
Having had these boys in the Year 9 Boarding House when they were younger, I could relate to how they too faced the challenges of getting used to Scotch College, Boarding, making friends, being homesick and dealing with what all teenagers deal with. So, it was so rewarding to see them in their final year at Scotch, achieving amazing things, including becoming ‘End to Ender’s’ after a 6-year journey.
Setting off from Kalamunda the following week with the Year 7’s was the beginning of that same journey “along with my same old jokes”, but to see your boys giving everything a real crack, toughing it out, looking after each other and having a bit of fun, was priceless … you should be very proud of your boys, they were all fantastic 😊
A massive thanks to Michael Spratt for organising and conducting the ‘Welcome to Country’ and ‘Smoking Ceremony’, the Outdoor Education Department and Rhys Edwards who runs an awesome program. And Congrats to Mia Sullivan who completed her first leg of the Bibbulmun Track and all her work guiding and looking after the boys while we were out there.