1979 School Magazine

PREFECTS' REPORT The year began wellfor us after we discovered that there was more to life than telling people to pull their hats up and put their socks on, and we began with a deiermineb effort to get the school involved with the lnternational Year of the Child. This included an assembly on the theme, an aluminium can drive (which was fairly well supported by the school but did not shower us wiih the massive dividends we expected), and a highly suc. cessful Pool-a{hon. Apart from a few cases of severe sunburn due to overexposure, the pool-a-thon went tremendously well on all accounts and raised about $4OO for the lnternational Year of the Child. On behalf of the prefects, lwould like to thank all the girls who par- ticipated in this and helped to make it the great Oay ifrat it was. We supplemented our pool-a{hon activities with a pancake stall on Shrove Tuesday which raised more than $80 for S.C.F. and taught us that if you want to make a fast buck, there is nothing like appealing to the ravenous appetite of a Grammar girl. To consolidate the grade 12 and get our goals into perspective, we organized a B.B.e. for 6th form girls on 21st March which was designed to provide an at- mosphere conducive to informal and constructive con- versalion about the ensuing year. This too was a suc- cess apart from a small mix up with the food, when we were left with enormous amounts of bean salad and a few cans of beetroot. Not being able to think of anything better to do with them, we gave them to the boarders.

Our piece de la resistance however, musl be our Life Be in lt campaign which we invented to relieve the boredom of prefects. meetings. For those of you are wondering, the project had a modest start, with our intentions limitel to only one Life Be in lt day. Somehow though, our en_ thusiasm got the better of us and whole thing snowballed into a complex scheme extending over the Tast six mon_ ths of the year. Judging from reports, most girls found the activities 'interesting and diffdrenti once they had recovered from the initial shock to their systems when faced with physical exertion. To publicize the program and simultaneously satisfy the frustrated graffiii aitists within the school, we painted Life Be in lt Characters all over the change rooms near the gym. Other projects dur_ ing the year included a teachers' car waih ind what some would consider our most valuable contribution to the school - the cleaning up after school day. Before I sign off, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the form seniors and form captains ior their sup_ port in all of our schemes for without them, we could have achieved nothing. Best of luck to the school next year and don't forget: when in doubt, sing a war cry. t{ n Joughin -'42-14<"- cn' an*}/-v - /s*Z , 4L.t^.* * /-444r-*- .tt--l' o-tt' ('

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