Teamwork is alive and well at Wesley!
The last week at Wesley has been all about ‘teamwork’.
Teamwork is the process of working collaboratively with a group of people to achieve a common goal. It comes in all shapes and sizes and can occur anywhere, at any time.
Over two exciting days, the Cato Room at our St Kilda Road Campus radiated with laughter and squeals of delight as we welcomed 100 students from 20 schools from across Victoria to compete face-to-face in the FUSE Cup ‘Just Dance’ esports competition. Wesley was well-represented with a team from each campus competing in the Years 5 and 6 competition.
Watching the students cheer each other on and provide support to their teammates when they didn’t make it through to the next round was heartening to witness as it showed two of the key tenets of our ROAR Approach to Learning and Wellbeing – Respect and Resilience – are alive and well at Wesley.
On Friday afternoon, the Front Turf of the St Kilda Road Campus became a sea of white as the inaugural Ross Gregory Cup was contested over two-days between the Wesley and Scotch Firsts XI Cricket Teams.
The match honours former Wesley Student Ross Gregory (OW1934), who represented Victoria and Australia in cricket, playing two Tests against England under the captaincy of Don Bradman, helping Australia to retain The Ashes before his untimely death during World War 2.
Year 12 student, Tanish Prabhu, summed up the match perfectly. ‘Despite laying down an impressive score of 199, the Wesley bowlers struggled in defence as the Scotch Captain raced to a magnificent century. Scotch went on to take victory thanks to their Skippers undefeated score of 136. What a great performance!' Once again, despite the result, respect and resilience were shown by our Wesley team.
Last weekend, our Girls First rowing team competed in The Head of the Schoolgirls Regatta and won the B finals. A great result after a lot of hard work! The amount of teamwork required in rowing is unsurpassable, as rowers must be in harmony with one another.
While all of these activities varied dramatically in terms of size, scope and skill, they had one thing in common – they required a tremendous amount of teamwork. We congratulate all of our students for their efforts and attitude.
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