Community and Family

Community Service at Medbury

It was a busy start to the year, with raising funds for Hereworth School in the North Island, after it was hit hard from the destruction of Cyclone Gabrielle.

As a school we managed to raise over a staggering $2,000 from our mufti day and Church services! A huge thank you to all the people who contributed.

World Vision’s focus this year is to raise funds for Malawi. At the World Vision Young Leader Conference in Term 2, that I attended with our House leaders (Nitin Keswani, Oscar Abbott, Will Glassey and Harrison Tapper), we learnt about the plight of people there and in particular how extremely difficult it is to get access to safe, clean drinking water.

After the conference, we set a goal of raising $12,000 to help the people of Malawi and planned a school wide event called ‘H2Go for Malawi!’

In parts of Africa and Asia, children carry water an average of 6km a day for their families.

On Friday 30 June, Medbury boys will be challenged to see how many 10 L buckets of water they can fill, walking 150m carrying a 250 ml cup of water. This proportionally simulates the distance walked and volume of water carried by children in rural communities. This will be a House challenge.

On the journey, there will be visual reminders of some of the dangers that children like nine-year-old

Madalidso will face as she fetches water for her family every day.

We also have a brave group of teachers and Year 8 leaders who have volunteered to have cold buckets of water tipped on them at lunchtime that day. By donating a certain amount to World Vision, boys can select a particular teacher or leader to tip a bucket on. This promises to be a very entertaining event!

Sam Leete, 8B, Head of Community Service

Service of Remembrance, 1 May 2023

World War 2 started in 1939 and finished in 1945. It was a major world crisis with more than 100 million people that went to fight. The majority of them sadly died in battle.

The Allies who fought included Australia and New Zealand, known as the Anzacs. At the Medbury Service of Remembrance we remember the Old Boys of Medbury who served their country, especially the 21 Old Boys who did not return.

George Greig, Head Chorister, sang the Australian National Anthem, followed by the Choristers singing the New Zealand National Anthem. We all sang ‘I vow to thee my Country’ and Ollie

Gordon, Head Boy, read the Roll of Honour. Fletcher McNeill played the bagpipes during the laying of a wreath, and after, Miss Holland played ‘The Last Post’, the Choristers Sang the anthem ‘The Poppy and Pohutukawa’.

J acob Carr, 8S, Head Boarder