Our final term of the year continues to gather pace with students, teachers and parents being fully involved in many activities.

CLASSES FOR 2015

Last week we held orientation days for new students joining Wyvern in 2015. Many of the ‘new boys’ had the opportunity to spend some time with students from their equivalent Wyvern year group providing the chance for some early friendships to emerge. Currently we are in the final stages of formulating 2015 classes. This is a detailed and rigorous process.  I will write to parents in due course to inform you of the 2015 teaching arrangements for your son. On Tuesday 2 December we will be holding our ‘One Up’ morning where all of our students, plus the new student intake, will meet their class teacher and class mates for 2015. Please note that the deadline for parental input into the class allocation process has long passed (end of Term 3) and, as such, I have to inform you that further requests from parents at this late stage cannot be considered.

SCHOOL LEADERS 2015

At this time of the term we also consider which of our current Year 5 students have the potential to undertake a number of specific student leadership positions next year. Again we give this much thought and provide opportunities for every staff member and student (Year 3- 6) to have input into the process. We use the following criteria to help us to form our judgements.

1. Capacity as a role model
   How the student conducts himself on a day to day basis in relation to our values, standards and behavioural expectations.
2. Presentation skills
   The ability of the student to speak confidently and persuasively to different audiences: e.g. large and small groups of peers and adults, in both formal and informal settings and within prepared and impromptu speaking situations.
3. Care for others
   How the student has demonstrated a service ethic and a capacity to think of others: e.g. selfless behaviour, assistance provided to others, capacity to work as part of a team; in other words evidence of ‘servant leadership’.

Having said all of this, I do consider all Year 6 students to be our school leaders and role models for the rest of the school and, as such, I have extremely high expectations about their conduct and behaviour. A leadership training day for the whole Year 6 cohort is planned in early Term 1, 2015.

TOM SUCCESS

As mentioned in the last newsletter, our Tournament of Minds Maths and Engineering team recently represented NSW in the Australasian final held in Melbourne. I am delighted to announce that the team excelled and won first place in the Primary Division. I congratulate Calum Boland, Sam Eagleton, Addison Eastway, James Evans, Callum Latham, Charlie Papps and Peter Pontifix for their outstanding achievement. I also thank Ms Kate Green for her superb management of the group as well as Mr David King and parents for their wonderful support of the team.

OSHCLUB

Parents who use OSHClub Vacation Care recently received an email advising that due to extensive maintenance work at Wyvern their normal vacation care would not be available in the upcoming holiday.

I am please to inform you that we have reviewed this decision and have now found a suitable location on the Wyvern site from which OSHClub will be able to operate vacation care.

At this stage vacation care will be available for the December holiday period plus the first 2 weeks of January.

OSHClub will send out further information next week.

Ian Holden
Head of Wyvern House