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Another cloudy and what appears is going to be a wet day. Our fire alarm goes of at 6.15 am as a result of Mr Odendaal’s candles on his birthday cake setting the alarm off. Each Tuesday morning we have House Prayers at 7.25am.

House Prayers in the Common Room

This morning two Form III’s have a short play scene followed by some words about forgiveness which is accompanied by a Bible reading and a prayer. Devan Kerr gives some feedback from the Heads of Houses meeting which takes place each Sunday. I inform the House of some school matters and our achievers this week are Grant Tromp who had bowling figures of 3/7 for the U 16 C XI and Tim van Asche who scored 51 runs for the 2nd XI.

I teach the first two periods and then attend a Servant Leadership Conference Committee meeting.

Servant Leadership Committee Meeting in Headmasters's office

All seems to be on track for the conference and the number of delegates for both the Business and Educational portions of the conference is looking good. This conference is taking place at the end of the term and there are some international speakers who will be attending.

Every Tuesday the Housemasters gather with the Headmaster in the Headmaster’s Dining Room for lunch.

Housemasters have lunch with the Headmaster

It is not a business meeting but rather a get together and a support session for each other. On occasion, it is light hearted and my colleagues have a chuckle when I tell them about our fire alarm going off this morning.

At 2pm I have a Management Committee meeting. I have been appointed at the beginning of the year to this committee as the Housemasters’ representative.

Management Committee Meeting in the HM's office

I am looking forward to sitting on this committee and to be involved at this sort of level. It will be good experience as well as having some input. After discussing various school issues the meeting finishes at 5.15pm.

As I get home I am greeted by a new boy who needs to talk to me. He really just wants to chat as it has been his afternoon off and he needs some reassurance about various things.

At 8pm the Form II’s come to my House for hot chocolate and cake. I enjoy having this sort of function at my house as it is very relaxed and the boys talk freely. They thoroughly enjoy it as they miss some prep!

The Form II's enjoy some hot chocolate and cake at my house

At 9 pm I go up and sit on the “main table” in the house. It is a good place to see boys as well as have a general chat. I go into the Form I “lights out” for a short while to see what is happening. I remind them of the procedure for booking buses for half-term and leave their matrics to carry on with their notices.

At 10.30pm the matric on duty confirms that  everybody in the House is in bed and all is locked up. Another day has gone by and I hope to wake up to some sunshine tomorrow.

On to Wednesday