Page 107 - Southwell School Year Book 2019

DURHAM
Heads of House: Kezia Schuitemaker Toby Shale
House Leader: Mr M Webb
House Staff: Mrs C Bagley, Miss R Bird, Mr M Cole, Mrs B Coleman, Ms D Hazlett, Rev’d Canon N Troon, Mrs J Huggins,
Mrs R Krielen, Mrs S Marshall,
Ms P Martinez, Mrs G McLean, Miss N Ngcobo, Mrs S Turner, Mrs R van Heuven Special House Assistant: Mr Cuddles
Our motto for this year was Keep your feet on the ground and reach for the stars.
Keeping this philosophy in mind we spoke about unremarkable people who do remarkable things. Durham’s continued success relies on this. Everybody in Durham is capable of doing something remarkable, whether it is improving on their position in Cross Country from last year, swimming in an event they have not tried before or feeling a bit silly doing the dance during Founder's Day. We had a lot of fun preparing for Founder's Day. At the start of Term 4 I was most impressed with how Isa de Bruijn and Emilee Mehrtens completely captivated Durham with their dance routine and then took the whole house with them.
There were a lot of fine individual performances this year in Swimming, Cross Country and Athletics but what impressed me the most was how everyone gave their utmost in what they did. Every single pupil in Durham contributed in some way to our successes this year, and this is the strength of our house. The Heads of House and the House prefects always led by example. Kezia and Toby were always positive, encouraging and had a smile on their faces.
A big thank you to the other leaders in our House who assumed responsibilities.
Per aspera ad Astrum.
Mark Webb House Leader
All the students in Durham are always keen to join in with any activity that we are doing. This has been really helpful to our teachers, and Heads of House; who are always encouraging everyone. I have loved my time here at Southwell, especially so because I’ve been brought up in an amazing house. Having the responsibility to lead Durham, is one of the best things that can happen to anyone!
Toby Shale Head of House
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All the Durham students are always so encouraging to each other when we are doing all our activities. I like how we work together and cooperate when things were hard. I love all our enthusiasm with all the house activities even if they don’t enjoy it. I would also like to thank all the students and teachers in Durham for being so supportive of each other.
Kezia Schuitemaker Head of House