The Medbury Boy

The Medbury Boy is a young person who is:

• numerate and literate
• prepared to try things, and make and learn from mistakes
• adaptable and has the ability to persevere
• outgoing, confident, but showing humility
• willing to embrace opportunities and challenges
• accepting of other philosophies and cultures
• a lateral thinker, and enterprising
• well equipped for the next educational step
• positive in approach
• a team player, able to win or lose with grace
• comfortable in dealing with others
• a giver

and who is a self-directed and “life-long” learner, able to accept responsibility for his actions and learning.

The Medbury boy is given a fair amount of "self-management" with the creation of positions of responsibility. Every boy in Year 8 has a period of time as a leader in the school. This leads to the development of two very important benefits - service to others and self sufficiency.

At the same time the boy is infected with the spirit and the enthusiasm of those around him. This leads to the boy taking up the challenge and learning to take part and in doing so becoming a much more rounded person. He learns one of the fundamental laws of living - that he will receive, from life, in direct proportion to what he is prepared to put into it.

“Buddy classes” develop the theme of “family” throughout the school. All the senior classes are paired up with a junior or middle school class.

The boy will be a member of a House. There are four houses named after the four major roads bordering the school; Clyde, Hamilton, Creyke and Ilam. He will have a responsibility to the other members and he will be expected to do his share of the tasks. As he reaches the top of the school he will be expected to assume some position of leadership and to exercise that privilege responsibly.

He will have to accept that this community has to have boundaries and that he must live within this framework. Above all he must try his hardest at all he attempts and he must be aware of the needs and feelings of other people - he must be a caring person.