We’re well down the home straight for 2023. It’s the last term for the boys to acquire more satisfaction, pride, and excellent achievement. Seniors soon head out for NCEA and Scholarship exam leave, to rise to their final challenges. For this, preparations are well in hand at school and soon need to happen at home. Juniors also have the chance to finish strongly and to add the last 2023 increment to their education. For all boys, Term 4’s about staying on track, on the right road, while continuing to make the right choices.

Regarding staying on the right road, Robert Frost gave us a tremendous metaphor in his poem ‘The Road Not Taken’. Individual fulfilment can come from choosing between alternate roads. This choice can make all the difference. As the boys get older and advance through King’s our goal is for them to find their road and to move down it with growing character and capability. To take the best road for a rewarding and uplifting education; to see themselves as always approaching another fork in the road with good choices to be taken.

Ngā mihi nui,

Nick McIvor, Rector

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost (1915)

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