WHPS is well known for its excellent schoolboys who obtain their Wisdom and their extraordinary Skills from inspiring teachers at our famous school. WHPSians have been highly Skilled and Wise for almost 100 years.
Please join us for our Arbour Day message today, presented by Mr Neilson and Ms Modiba.
We hope that you are enjoying the warmer weather as well as the bright and beautiful fresh colours that Spring brings.
Join us for our first WHPS Assembly of the third term - Tuesday, 1 September 2020
Expand your universe, expand your mind and expand your heart.
Real Life 4 Kids - The game is ‘hotting’ up with the much awaited auction which took place on Thursday, 18 and Friday 19 June 2020. The WHPS Grade 6 boys were both excited and nervous about how much money they were going to bid for their desired piece of land.
WHPS - Keeping Up With The Sport Department
Over the past few weeks it has been wonderful to welcome more grades back on to the WHPS campus. It has been particularly enjoyable to see Herringer and Pops Fields full of boys involved in some sort of physical activity, albeit very different to the normal lessons they would have had.
WHPS - Checking in with the Junior Prep.
How exciting it has been to have our boys back at school. It was so wonderful to see our JP boys walk through the WHPS gates last week and greet the teachers with great big smiles (under their masks).
Habit #5 - Think Interdependently Being able to work and learn from others in reciprocal situations, team- work. "Take care of each other. Share your energies with the group. No one must feel alone, cut off, for that is when you do not make it." - Willie Unsoeld
WHPS - Checking in with the Senior Prep.
It’s been an interesting couple of months at WHPS, going from a hustle and bustle, busy and happy school to a campus which was eerily quiet. Thankfully we have still managed to maintain some contact with the boys via Zoom lessons and clips and photos they have shared on Seesaw.
Certainty in Uncertain Times. When life's storms roar, sometimes it can seem the only certainty is uncertainty.
I hear "everything is just so uncertain" multiple times every day, people seem to be even more focussed on the uncertainty of the future. It is interesting to note that the future has ALWAYS been uncertain. The reality is that we never know what is going to happen tomorrow… we just think we do. In January this year, you probably felt certain what your life would look like today. You were wrong.
Habit #3 - Listen With Understanding and Empathy
In times of chaos, creating Art is like catharsis. A time to let yourself be free, to relax with moments of quiet in which you have the chance to absorb and lose yourself in the process of Art Making.
We are proud of our Whippets.
The Whippets Department is a very special place, filled with chatter, hugs, giggles and children running outside. The last few weeks have been very quiet without our Whippets.
WHPSian Poem - I am a WHPSian - This poem was written by Sheldom Topham (Grade 4) during the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown in 2020.
A Dramatic Entrance - Drama is a beneficial subject as it can help develop language and communication skills, build confidence and help children understand the world around them amoung other skills.
Join us for our WHPS Assembly - Monday, 8 June 2020
PRECIOUS PEOPLE
"I thank my God every time I remember you." - Philippians 1:3
Take some time to remember and treasure the precious people in your life.
Be Creative, imagine and innovate. All human beings have the capacity to generate novel, original, clever or ingenious products, solutions, and techniques - if that capacity is developed. Creative human beings try to conceive problem solutions differently, examining alternative possibilities from many angles.
STEM, STEAM - We are all makers. I think everybody has heard something similar to ‘ 85% of jobs that will exist in 2030 have not been invented yet.’
We are proud of our Junior Prep boys.
The teachers in the Junior department are truly grateful and blown away by the positive feedback from the boys and their parents with regard to online learning. It is most gratifying to see the uploaded photos and videos of the boys in action, carrying out their online tasks with such enthusiasm.
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.
