“The happiest people are not the ones who have the most, but the ones who are most happy with what they have got…”
there, so we arranged for loads of fill to help with the drainage issues. We didn’t have the money to lay the turf to turn it into a real football field so we set that as a priority. During our annual ‘Crazy Hat Day’, a fundraiser for Epilepsy Queensland, in memory of our beloved Father Phil, we had a visit from Dr Soheil Abedian, founder of the Sunland Group. Mr Abedian was at the Prep School to talk to Year Six and share his story as a migrant to Australia. While he was there he noticed all the colourful and creative hats and asked a Year Six student what it was all about. The student he asked was Jake Scott, Chairperson of Prep Round Square, so Jake filled him in about what Round Square is and what we have achieved in Cambodia. When Mr Abedian heard about the unfinished playing field he offered the $5,000 to get it completed. Fantastic!
JULIE WATTS
Prep Round Square Coordinator
HUGO MAYSON – CAPTAIN OF ROUND SQUARE, AND JAKE SCOTT – CHAIRPERSON OF PREP ROUND SQUARE
The winner of the Year 6 Public Speaking Competition finished his speech with this quote and it keeps ringing in my head. It is easy to become complacent about what we have in our lives, both our material wealth and our emotional and physical wellbeing. For those of us fortunate enough to have enough food and shelter, lucky enough to live in a country without war and persecution we can lose touch with the everyday challenges of others. A trip to Cambodia is the quickest way to remind ourselves of all that we have and help us gain perspective. Over the 2014 Christmas holidays, Paula Henry (Year 7/Senior School Round Square) and I visited Cambodia again and spent a week at the main organisation we support, Feeding Dreams. Australian Kerry Huntley, the founder of Feeding Dreams, was excited to have just moved into their new site while we were visiting. They had just completed building classrooms and we were happy to be able to supply funding to build our own TSS classroom, and supply all the classrooms with teachers’ desks and fans. We moved our classroom from the old site and it became ‘the stand’ for the football field. The football field was actually just a mud pit when we were 306
THE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL SOUTHPORTONIAN 2015
This year we ran a new initiative we called “Charity of Your Choice”. We asked every class to come up with a charity they would like to donate $500 to and then present their charity at
