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Lavarack House Captains
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At the beginning of the year, we chose a theme for ourselves that we would aim to structure our year around in 2021. This theme was “Boomerang”. Like a boomerang, our goal was to send a positive message out to the community, whether this was with our words or actions. This was encouraged no matter how small the scale, as doing something like asking a fellow student how their day was, or carrying their books for them between classes, can make a big difference.
In Term 1 we had the Swimming Carnival and the theme was “Under the Sea”. The Year 12s in Lavarack were all dressed as crabs with headbands. Unfortunately, with no cheering allowed at the time due to restrictions, there wasn’t as much House Spirit heard verbally, but our cheer squad of non-swimmers were dancing to ‘Under the Sea’ from the Little Mermaid to earn us Spirit points.
Term 2 was packed with events. We had the Cross Country Carnival in the first week back at Stolz Oval. Many students really embraced the theme of Mario Kart by creating cars to wear. We both worked together to create a car each which took many hours on the weekends leading up to the Carnival. In addition, each Home Group made a poster to be used on the day to cheer our House on. Our favourite posters were power-ups inspired by the Mario Kart theme. During Home Group time, we ran a scavenger hunt where each Home Group had to solve a riddle to find the location to get the quiz questions. We were also fortunate enough to be able to have Day 1 of the Athletics Carnival before wet weather hit. A highlight of the Athletics Carnival involved the creation of a Superman phone box to help with the visual side of the Spirit award and it looked amazing.
In Term 3 the RecyKle event was held. We had an amazing team consisting of Year 11 and 12 students who all gave it their best shot. Due to Ramsay and Wilson tying for First place, Lavarack came Second, trailing not too far behind the other Houses. For the last couple of weeks of the term, Home Groups worked on photo challenge posters to put up in their classroom to create some House Spirit and visual culture.
In 2021, we have had the pleasure of being the Lavarack House Captains. We have been blessed that our year has been more normal than the last and we got to hold all three Carnivals. While we didn’t win any of the Carnivals, we are incredibly proud of our House. This year we have been focusing on courage, service and effort. We are so proud of all our fellow “Lavarackians” for embodying these values throughout all our House events, and especially our Carnivals.
Lastly, we would like to thank the Lavarack House for the many memories over our 13 years of being “Lavarackians”, but we would especially like to thank the group that we proudly lead in 2021. We would also like to thank Mr Jeffes for his support and guidance throughout this year as we definitely wouldn’t have been able to do it without him.
