Each weekend, the boarders who are staying in at school for the weekend are taken out on a Sunday activity. Earlier in the year I reported on the boys and their rock-climbing. Activities vary depending on the time of year and how many boys are staying in on a particular weekend. They have been to the movies, the aquatic centre, Darling Harbour, bowling, putt-putt, NRL matches and the list goes on!

On Sunday, we took the opportunity to take the small number of boys to Laser Tag in Chatswood. The boys headed into the compound for two games being pitted against each other and in some cases, making the most of the opportunity to shoot a couple of the teachers. I am pretty confident that in the dim light of the compound I could see a very wide smile come across Hamish “Plague” Spackman’s (Bendick Murrell) face as he aimed his laser gun fair at my chest!

The boys certainly showed no mercy, particular towards the members of the public … several under the age of 10! Although the games are only 12 minutes long, by the end of the second game we had well and truly worked hard to achieve as many points as possible. Congratulations goes to Ben “Wrath” Clements (Lane Cove) who finished the final game with the most points.

After laser tag, the boys spent some time around the arcade games with Binban Jaffer-Williams (Hanging Rock) and Charlie Crawford (Gurley) working together to walk out of the Mandarin Centre with their own soft toy from “Angry Birds”.

Photo 1: Hamish “Plague” Spackman, Charlie “Switchblade” Crawford, Aidan “Gokk” Porter (Dubbo), Binban “Iceman” Jaffer-Williams, Rhys “Buster” Orman (Narrabri) and Ben “Wrath” Clements at the conclusion of their game.

Photo 2:  Binban Jaffer-Williams and Charlie Crawford share their winnings.