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Boys leading into Congregational to practice the songs for Sunday night’s service

Every Friday morning we have Congregational Practice. This entails the whole school getting together and practicing the hymns for Sunday’s chapel services. The singing this morning was particularly good as we sung some well-known hymns.

Andrew Bourdillon giving his message to the school after Congregational

From there, Andrew Bourdillon, our Head Boy for 2008, had called a meeting for all the boys in the school. It was to introduce them to the Matric body’s mission statement for the year. He explained it very well and I think it was well received by the school. Also at this meeting all the first teams for the week were introduced by their captains. The purpose of this is to give the boys who are playing first team recognition and for the new boys to get an idea of who is who. Because this meeting went into first period we (unfortunately) missed most of Maths, but the rest of my classes resumed as normal.

Today was an important day for our new boys as they wrote their “New Boys Tests”. Every new boy as part of his integration into the school writes a new boys test. It gets them to acquaint themselves with various people and places around the school. This year they will write three tests, and so the syllabus is sliced into thirds. Today was their first one, and I stayed with them to invigilate and then mark their tests afterwards. It seems as though the McKenzie boys had prepared very hard for this round as we had five boys who obtained 100%, and we did not have one failure! I hope they will go from strength to strength in the remaining tests!

The new boys hard at work, doing their new boys test

I was lucky enough to have an individual cricket lesson with our school professional, Mr Roberts. Such lessons take place in the Sports Hall where there is an indoor net and a bowling machine. He helped me with my batting, and I left feeling much more confidant with my technique. From there it was straight to Captains Practice. At 4.00pm on Fridays the captain takes a short practice with his team so that they can get their minds right for the game the next day. Our “Captain’s” was slightly depleted at four of our team members were playing golf for the school (I’m pleased to report that they won!), but we got some fielding done nonetheless.

Our CF band practicing the songs before Christian Fellowship

I always enjoy Friday nights because every Friday there is Christian Fellowship (CF). CF is a time for boys to gather and praise God and listen to a message given to them by a teacher, a boy or an outside speaker. We are lucky enough to have our own band that plays every week. Although it is not about numbers, on a good night we can get over 100 people, but tonight was quite a lot smaller as all the Form I’s and II’s had a compulsory music concert, which from all accounts was very good, however maybe not the boys’ cup of tea!

Tomorrow there is a full set of fixtures against various schools so hopefully the weather will play its part so it can be a day enjoyed by all.

On to Saturday