RAG week raises over £3300
Posted on Wednesday 12 May 2010
A week of crazy costumes, wacky events and waxed principals
Students from Farnborough Sixth Form College raised over £3300 in the 2010 Rag week held last week. Student Charities Officer Matt Davenport, 18, of Fleet said, “We had five days full of crazy costumes, excitable students and wacky events to raise money for our chosen charities Daisy's Dream, Help for Heroes, Phyllis Tuckwell, Parity and Diabetes UK, and it was a huge success.”
Each day had its own theme chosen and designed by the student association beginning with Holiday. This featured the students’ very own Summer Fete complete with stalls, games and a “bean shy” which rewarded successful competitors with the opportunity to pour baked beans over members of the SA. Great fun!
Tuesday was John Guy (JG) Day – a loving tribute to the Principal who retires at the end of the academic year. Matt Davenpoort said, “We sold hundreds of T shirts sporting comments like "JG ♥ U", “I ♥ JG” and "JG 4 PM" which everybody wore and there were loads of JG Look-a-Likes around.”
Out-going Student President, Jack Nixon, 18, of Church Crookham said, “The highlight of the day was John’s stirring rendition of the Beatles classic “Hey Jude” during the Karaoke event.”
Other events in the week included Sports Day, with saw a terrific staff v students game which kicked off a really popular 5 a side tournament involving no fewer than 15 teams and an old school “sports day” on the field with very mucky egg & spoon races (who forgot to hard boil the eggs???), 3 legged, sack and sprint races.
School Day allowed everyone to break out the old school uniforms (and a few that definitely wouldn’t have been allowed) and featured a live “old v new” quiz. John Guy and Jack Nixon, the outgoing SA President, competed against Simon Jarvis, Principal Designate, and Richard Acton, the incoming SA President. This was a fiercely contested battle as the losing President had to have a leg wax! Lots of extra money was raised when Simon and John volunteered to have a leg wax for £30!
999 Day brought visits from the Hampshire Fire & Rescue Service and the Territorial Army. Newly elected Charities Officer Maddie Sakakini said, “Students wore a fantastic array costumes ranging from Ghostbusters to “Super Mr Potato Head” and our visitors posed for lots of crazy photos with the students.”
On top of these events, the SA raised money by selling T shirts, bags of tuck shop sweets, Krispy Kremes, Hawaiian flower wreaths, badges and loads more, all in-keeping with each day’s theme, and all adding to our charity bucket.
It was absolutely fantastic to see so many staff and students get into the spirit of RAG week, so a huge thank you to everyone who took part and donated!
Special thanks to Hampshire Fire Services, The Territorial Army, Krispy Kreme, the caretakers, college services and finance for making Rag Week 2010 such a winner!
