[+][–]117TH AAGPS ATHLETICS

Added to the Junior and Senior titles this year, was the inaugural Intermediate title, which King's secured. Level pegging with Newington College going into the final event of the day, unfortunately saw King's miss out on the Senior title. The King's athletes were humble and gracious as they walked the length of the field to congratulate the senior victors.

Some outstanding performances on Saturday saw records broken too, including the Open 1500m record that had stood for 37 years, which Jack Stapleton now holds. The U14 100m record was also broken by Jordan Idiare.

[+][–]ANZAC DAY 2012

Marching Band
The School was once again superbly represented by the Cadet Corps Marching Band in the Annual Sydney Anzac Day March. Our boys looked and sounded spectacular and were outstanding ambassadors, as they marched in front of the WW2.

The School is most grateful to all members of the Band for the excellent job done. It must be noted that the Band has been superbly led by their Drum Major CUO, Avinesh Chelliah and Bandmaster, Mr Daniel Williams. Both these men deserve special congratulations.

[+][–]SPACE ODYSSEY TEAM

Senior students from King's have joined The Space Odyssey team with girls from Tara, after Tara was selected by the Oxford University Astrophysics Department as the Australian school to participate in their Global Jet Watch Program.

This exciting new project links astronomers at Oxford University with students from four high schools around the world in Australia, Chile, South Africa and India in order to carry out cutting edge research. The SPOT team is led by Matthew Jacob (Year 11).

Oxford University installed a 20 inch RC Optical, research grade telescope an observatory with a 4.5metre dome in Tara's grounds. The aim was to achieve round-the-clock watch of the nanoquasar SS433, a.k.a. the ‘Cosmic Corkscrew’. Almost a billion, billion miles from earth SS433 persistently ejects jets of hydrogen from near its black hole at a quarter of the speed of light. These sweep out along an axis every six months, producing a corkscrew shape.

[+][–]MARCHING BAND

On a beautiful and warm day, our School buses drove in through the gates of the Windsor Polo Grounds at Richmond with 50 or so musicians and their instruments.

Amidst a sea of corporate tents, champagne and canapés, the band assembled and marched onto the polo ground to stand beneath the flags of Australia and South Africa.

In front of a very enthusiastic crowd and the very familiar Australian team (of which three are TKS Old Boys), both National Anthems were played with distinction.

Whilst the horses and their riders rested at half time, once again the Marching Band took to the ground to entertain the patrons.

The drum corps was simply stunning, and all in attendance were most impressed!

[+][–]CADET CORPS CAMP

The annual Cadet Corps Camp, a culmination of many months of activities and training parades, was held amongst lush green fields, challenging hills to climb and a sea of Company tent sites and camp fires.

The boy leadership was very impressive and the support and friendship given to the new Year 9 cadets by their senior leaders was encouraging and well directed.

After long days of trekking or initiative activities or high ropes and confidence courses, a quiet stillness grew over the various Company camp sites as boys reflected on their day's achievements.

[+][–]ROYAL EASTER SHOW

A huge team of 30 King's boys thoroughly enjoyed their week at the Show.

They all worked so hard, with several boys - Ben Heffernan, Alexander Knight, Jack Cameron and Ben Peterie – heading to Homebush every day to help take care of the cattle.

Results were:

• 2 Bronze Medals for Excellence in Carcass results
• 6th place in the School Paraders
• 2nd in Chicken Live
• 4th in Chicken's Carcass