Author: Samantha Viney (Samantha Viney)

WHPS Tutorial Video - The New Back to School
We hope that this video will help you in terms of what to expect and how to best prepare your son for his return to school. Please take some time to watch this video with your son and talk to him about what to expect when he arrives at school for the first time since the 18th of March 2020. School is going to be completely different and we all need to be prepared for these changes. It is important to remain positive and supportive during this time.

It has been a very different experience for the sports department, as we are used to seeing the fields, courts and turfs filled with excited children practising and enjoying the chosen sport on offer. We would have been in the middle of rugby season now, and I miss so many things about it. I miss hearing the crunching of the studs on the bricks, when the boys are coming from their classrooms to the fields. I miss the sounds of whistles, as the coaches put the boys through their paces. I miss the grunting and groaning from the boys during a tough fitness session. I miss seeing the boys kicking for poles at every opportunity they get.

Join us for our Assembly on Monday 1 June 2020. This week Mr Whitelaw discusses Habit #2 - Listen with understanding and Empathy. Today is the last assembly in the Find the Object competition so don't forget to get your entries in.

During lockdown, we are looking at Performing Arts in a quite different way…working alone together. We are reaching out to our boys like never before, trying to incorporate what WHPS is known for… and that is to keep ‘The Arts’ alive. We are teaching the boys the act of doing and creating, a new way of undertaking and exploring, that which forms part of our day to day learning at school.

The assembly for Monday, 25 May was prepared by Mr Sweetlove and Mrs Wiele. We hope that you enjoy this very special message and take time to reflect on our six core values.

Coping with our new normal - Valuable Tips for Coping with Stress.
Stress is a normal reaction to an abnormal situation. We are living in an uncertain time where stress is common and can be perceived as uncontrollable. Through all of this, stress management has become important for individuals and families.

Intelligent people are in a continuous learning mode. Their confidence, in combination with their inquisitiveness, allows them to constantly search for new and better ways. People with this Habit of Mind are always striving for improvement, always growing, always learning, always modifying and improving themselves. They seize problems, situations, tensions, conflicts and circumstances as valuable opportunities to learn.

Join us for this weeks' assembly - 18 May 2020.
Remember to keep an eye out for the "hidden object" in the video. Have a great week.

One of our amazing teachers, Nerine Turvey, wrote this moving poem and we would like to share it with you.