amazing students

One of the things that never ceases to amaze me is the Culture of the school created by the students.
This week I saw a prime example when there was a full peer leaders day. The year 13 (upper sixth) worked all day with the year 7s (10 and11 year olds).
At the end of the day, the yr 13s had 50 minutes to teach the whole yr 7 (about 75 kids per group) to do a dance in synch.
The energy and determination was astonishing. Even more so was the involvement of the older boys, who chivvied along the yr 7s boys and got them taking part. The younger boys learnt a lot about expectations from those older boys - far more than I could ever expect to teach them.
Watching young men dancing along and encouraging house spirit was mind-blowing.
At the end of the hour each house had a group of 75, 10 and 11 year olds able to dance along to a song and every single child in the year group (275 in total) gave it a good go.

It was also fun to see some of the year 12s (lower sixth) hanging around to associate themselves. It really is cool to be an achiever here.

One more thing - out of the lads who were supporting the kids today, they weren't just the sporty ones. For example, one is on his way to 45 IB points (think 6 As at A level) in sciences and one was close to being expelled a few years ago.