Final Blog of the Year

Another year of Deaning and the first year of The Dean’s Blog has come and gone.


The Dean of Students has subdivided into the Deans of Duties, Food Queues, Hats on in the Dining Room whilst Eating, Red Top is a Non Eating Zone, Red Top Usage, Poor Decision Making, Occasional Bullying, Occasional Disrespect, Snowballs, Blocked Toilets, Graffitied Desks and Doors, Late to Class, ‘Not on the Field today, it’s too wet!’, ‘It’s not fair…’, ‘It wasn’t me…’, and more.

Blogs have been written about behaviour and neighbours and rain and the library and Africa and helicopters and animal traces, not to mention teenage dialect and losing things or having them stolen and forgetfulness and breaking rules and the nature of the (teenage) beast, as well as ‘Why can’t I? Why shouldn’t I? and moments of despair and of fulfillment for parents, and more.

There were a below average number of Deanworthy events to log. Deanish interviews were at the usual level and there was a lower than average range of behaviours. Kids talking and thinking twice and not going ahead with the wrong decision seemed up. Repeat offenders were down.

Balance? A good year overall.