MR KEN CONNORS
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want to start by saying how honoured and fortunate I am to be appointed as the Housemaster of this House. There are a number of thoughts and plenty of negative assumptions you could make when entering a House that has placed 12th on the House Shield the year before. You could assume you have a House full of disharmony, boys that are self-centred and have no interest or polarising personalities that overpower and force many back into their shells. I am very happy to say that that couldn’t be further from the truth. What I was greeted with was a group of boys who are compassionate, hardworking, polite, enthusiastic, take pride in their House and value their friendships. I want to sincerely thank the boys for making me feel so welcome, particularly our Year 12 cohort that set such a positive tone to the House this year.
Going back to the beginning of the year, our first event was the House Swimming, before the Norovirus made its impact. As part of that there was going to be a competition for the best House warcry performance. So we got the 12s together and I said, “right boys next House meeting we are practicing our warcry” to which I received blank looks, “do we have a House warcry?” was the response.
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So I delved deep into a filing cabinet that is in my office, “surely we have a warcry” I thought. The filing cabinet was like a Housemaster time machine, I waded through the Mr Saw and Mr Thorpe zone, through the Mr Luxton era and for those that would remember him, ended up in the golden age of Mr Roberts. I found what I had been looking for, blew the dust off and made some copies.
We had a couple of practises but in the end the boys just did not warm to it. I’ll be the first to admit that it needed some updating.
HOUSEMASTER
MR KEN CONNORS
HOUSE CAPTAIN
PATRICK ANNING
HOUSE VICE-CAPTAIN
SEAN MCMENAMIN
HOUSE SPORTS CAPTAINS HOUSE CULTURAL CAPTAIN HOUSE SACRISTAN MENTOR TEACHERS
RONAN KAPI CASEY MURPHY JACOB SCULL DEAN BURTON
MR MARK LOCKETT MR SIMON LEES MR JOHN WALLACE MR GRAHAM HERLIHY
