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This year, Student Council made a few changes to improve student participation in spirit week festivities.
On Friday, October 13 students flooded into the O’Neill gymnasium thinking “here we go again.” It was another Spirit Day assembly, and students were expecting the same as previous years. But this year was different.
Blue & Grey Games Photo Gallery by Alex Haylock ’19
“Every year, we send out a survey to the school asking the students to critique Student Council,” senior and Student Council President Liam McKnight said. “We learned that a lot of the things students didn’t like were some of the activities at the Blue-Grey games.”
McKnight added that students really did not like sumo wrestling. He said that kids were not into it and would quickly get bored.
“We thought to add new events such as bubble soccer, an ice cream truck, and some other new additions to make it more fun for the students,” he said.
Student Council moderator Dr. Joan Dlugos said that they were a little unsure of how bubble soccer would work at first, but enough people showed interest for them to participate.
“We had enough for three teams and a faculty team. It was really exciting to add something new to Spirit Day,” she said.
Student Council did decide, however, to keep some of the same festivities for Spirit Week that had been done before.
“We kept World Cup soccer and Jimmy’s BBQ for the events during the week,” Dlugos said. “We got rid of the smaller events like Fastest Kid and Closest to the Pin.”
These decisions have to be a consensus among each class’s Student Council representatives. McKnight said that they meet a couple times a month to discuss events being held. He added that the month of October is always a hectic month so they try not to look too far into advance at these meetings.
“This is our biggest week of the entire school year. We have been focusing on this since we started school, and there were lots of revisional plans that we had to make,” Dlugos said. “The guys [Student Council representatives] make the plans, and my job is to help them follow through with it.”
In previous years, students volunteered to participate in activities just moments before the competitions started. This year, Student Council decided to change this process up a bit.
“We talked about who would be a good fit for these competitions and who would want to do them,” McKnight said. “We hoped to improve the competitiveness of the games by doing this.”
The overall student reaction to this year’s Spirit Week was very positive. One of those who liked it was senior Patrick Keenan.
“In previous years, I really did not enjoy going to the Blue and Grey games,” Keenan said. “I always found them very boring and the same kids would participate every year.”
Keenan said that he was pleasantly surprised with the changes to this year’s activities.
“I did not expect bubble soccer to be a fun thing to be a spectator for, but it was actually really funny watching kids getting decked and being flown all over the gym. I was happy that the last Spirit Day in my Malvern career was the best one,” he said.
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The students and faculty also enjoyed their time at the student council organized Jimmy’s BBQ after school on October 11.
Jimmy’s BBQ Photo Gallery by Garrett Reilly ’18
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