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Student Leadership Hear from the Junior School HOUSE Captains! Alleyn - Estelle, Ran, Zoe and Savanna Johnson - Tiger, Jonathan, Lily and Colin Soong – Sarah, Alan, Circle and Jessica Owens – Aaron, Ronnie, Vicky and Nicole Wodehouse - Poppy, Marcus, Isla and Sophia Please briefly introduce your role as a HOUSE Captain. Alleyn: We do lunch duty every week, cheer on our team, collect House points every Friday and set up Early Years events. As House Captains, we help other students in the school, not only those in our House. Our job is to be role models, and to help other students in everything they do. Johnson: We also help teachers get everything ready and set up for any exciting events that will take place. We have helped with the Early Years' Teddy Bear Gymnastics and Sports Day. We help Johnson discover their talents and unite them altogether. Soong: Part of our role is that we have to sacrifice our rest time in order to do our duties which include mask duty and bridge duty. We aim to enjoy our last year in Junior School by making other people’s year better. Owens: We make our House a better one and make sure everyone in this House is involved in any group work. Other than the duties, an important part is to entertain and inspire every member in this House when doing Housework. We’ll make Owens more united and support each other. Wodehouse: We help with House events, collect House points, and help organise our House. We sacrifice our time to do our bridge duties, making sure people are being safe and wearing masks, and we collect trophies when we win House events. We love contributing to DCB, especially when we are contributing to Wodehouse. What was the most fun part of being in the House team? Alleyn: Seeing the smiles on the little kids faces as we go to collect the trophies that they helped win. Johnson: The fun part is when we help out with fun activities and help the younger kids with their classes! Soong: Helping out Early Years activities such as Teddy Bear Gymnastics, and Early Years Sports Day. One of the best parts is when your House wins an event and you go up on stage and hold the trophy high above your head. Owens: If your House wins a House event, the House Captain will go down and receive the trophy, and it will have a House-coloured ribbon tied around it. Wodehouse: We love to help others when they have hard times. Seeing Wodehouse have fun inspires us to keep going and give back to our house. What have you learnt from this experience? Alleyn: I learnt that House Captain is actually a huge role in Junior School, and we need to be very responsible so that we could help our House become better. Johnson: This experience had made our year challenging especially when COVID struck. A House Captain is a big role and just the tiniest mistakes can mess up a big thing, so this year, we had to be extra cautious about everything. Soong: How to apply the Dulwich Values in real life. Respect, in respecting the teachers you work with. Responsibility, in wearing your House kit and remembering the exact dates of events. Open-Mindedness: if a child is different from the rest, you have to accept them for who they are. Confidence, when we got elected, we had to speak with confidence. Resilience, when our house lost, Kindness, we had to be kind even if a kid was mean to us. Integrity, when our friends did something bad, we had to 10 beijing.dulwich.org
Student Leadership be a role model and tell the teachers. Owens: We have learned how we can lead the group and improve ourselves, also to work as a team and learn from other people. Wodehouse: We have learnt more about leadership, and that teamwork can be possible even with a large group of people. In Wodehouse, we proved that we can trust each other. We aim to set an outstanding example to the whole Junior School and the younger students in Early Years. What was the biggest challenge you encountered? Alleyn: The biggest challenge we’ve encountered was within the House events. Everyone tried very hard and contributed a lot to Alleyn, but sometimes, other Houses did much better. Johnson: The biggest challenge to me was to keep everyone on the right track, and not to wander around and do nothing that will contribute to our House. Soong: The biggest challenge was that we had to set an example for the Junior school, also doing the bridge duty because a lot of students didn’t like to put their masks on, so we had to persuade them to do so. But we all completed it and proved that we can complete different challenges no matter how hard they are. Owens: The biggest challenge I encountered was always being the role model and organising certain activities and helping the Early Years. Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of the way they empower other people. That’s what we all desire. Wodehouse: The biggest challenge is attempting to get everyone organised and being where they should be. It also hurts to see people from our House sad because we didn’t win a House event. Explain one of the most memorable House events you took part in. Alleyn: The most memorable House event for us was this year’s House Colour War themed Halloween. It was exciting and made our heart race. The Spooky Obstacle Race was a blast, Pumpkin Toss was extremely fun, but the most fun of all was Capture the Bat, being all those roles was exhilarating. Johnson: The most memorable House event was the House Game-a-Thon last year. This was great fun because we got to play quizzes and games and learn the history of games. You got to show off your knowledge of the different varieties of games throughout the House event. Soong: Our most memorable event was House Gamea-Thon because it was one of the most unique and memorable events in our four years of Junior School. It included a variety of games including Pac-Man, Mario Kart and Just Dance. There was also a great quiz to test our knowledge on games. The College Magazine (Beijing) Owens: The most memorable House event was House Verse Speaking because that day, all the Owens competitors competed and proved that Owens could achieve everything. Wodehouse: We loved all the House events from Colour War to Go Green for Your House. Our most memorable House event is definitely Tour’d Four. After many losses, and close hits with other House events, we finally earned a well-deserved victory with Tour’d Four. What is unique about your House? Alleyn can be unique in many ways. We have been quite successful this year as we won four House competitions. We feel like our House has contributed a lot and we, as House Captains, feel very proud to be part of this family. All the year groups have taken part in this run. Johnson is unique in every way. Everyone respects the school and makes the House even better by just being themselves. They all contributed and participated greatly in the House events that took place this year. Soong is unique in several ways. We win our own challenges and challenge ourselves to a higher level. We always try our best and help each other when other students are struggling. We show a lot of Dulwich Values and teamwork. Although we don’t win every single event, we try our best at everything. Owens might not be winning everything, but we always improve ourselves and we will become better. Our House is also unique in how we work together and try to make up for the previous mistakes. Wodehouse hasn’t won every House event this year, but all of us have talents, including running, swimming and football, basketball, and dodgeball. We all encourage each other to make the House better. Our House founder P.G. Wodehouse has left us with a great House, lots of fascinating stories and great people that later joined. Go, Wodehouse! 11
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