The New Auditorium is Unwrapped
The New Auditorium is Unwrapped
Sunday, 29 August 2010
I love my job as a school principal! I really enjoy the variety that sees every day emerge as a new set of unique experiences, where every challenge has a new slant, and where I can have a real and direct influence in shaping the future of our world. This is especially so in an international school where students come from across the globe, eager to share their unique perspectives and backgrounds, and to learn from others. There must be very few other vocations that have such immense potential to influence quite as many young lives for the better.
At its most simple and basic level, the goal of any international school principal could be described as showing leadership in an environment that is aiming to build a better future for our world through education. The most important future is, of course, that of each and every students who is entrusted into our care. To enhance our students’ futures, a solid infrastructure is needed to support the sound teaching and learning that comprises a great education.
Of course, this doesn’t negate the enormous benefits (or, use more competitive terminology, ‘advantage’) that hardware infrastructure such as comfortable, well-lit buildings and robust internet access can bestow upon students. I think this is especially so in today’s increasingly globalised environment.
These thoughts naturally lead me towards sharing with you a most exciting event that occurred this week – the ‘unwrapping’ of our new auditorium building. For the first time, on Wednesday, we were able to glimpse the external appearance of this important new building when the green netting that surrounded the building for several months was torn away.
Although I have written about the auditorium construction on previous occasions (most recently HERE), being able to see the building’s exterior this week represented an important step forward, making the reality of the building much more tangible for us all. When it is completed, hopefully by the beginning of November, the auditorium will provide the first location on our campus that is capable of holding the entire College community under one roof so that everyone can see and hear each other (for obvious acoustic reasons, I don’t classify the Sports Centre in this manner!). It will also provide important and valuable new scope for the teaching of Theatre Arts, for holding public meetings and ToK lectures, and for large community events such as cultural evenings.
I am told that the interior of the auditorium is still filled with scaffolding, but that this will be cleared away in a few days and I can have my first look inside next week.
I can hardly wait!
As you can see here, it is difficult to make a building site look pretty - even when it is our new auditorium