Grade 9 Auction Returns to Manitouwadge High School
Thanks to contributors Wynter Fluet & Sable Brandt. ALL Photos ©Sable Brandt 2012
- Grade Nines participate in a balloon race on the first day of Welcome Week. Photos by Sable Brandt
Grade 12's get newly arrived Grade 9's, Hanna Timms (left) and Taylor Hunter (right), to dress up. Taylor was one half of the highest sold pair of Grade 9's. Photos by Sable Brandt
Grade Nine students Joni Adams and Zachary Bellerose after the blindfolded pudding eating contest. Photos by Sable Brandt
MANITOUWADGE, ON – September10th the auctioning of Grade 9 students to be purchased by seniors returned to MHS. What was once known as ‘Initiation Week’ has returned as ‘Welcome Week’ with a focus on fun and making the new students feel more at ease as they begin their secondary schol experience.
The pair of students which claimed the dubious title of “Most Expensive” was Taylor Hunter and Jessah Clement having been sold for 110 dollars. The moneys raised from the auction contribute to the MHS Graduation Committee’s account.
In the week that followed their was plenty of entertainment with students being asked to dress up to attend school, a blindfolded pudding eating contest and other similarly silly activities all intended to help the Grade 9 students get past the anxiousness that may accompany beginning high school while getting to know the senior class and rest of their peers.
"I'm a little teapot" Gunnar Nelson and Nathan Young perform as per the instructions of the Grade 12 students who "bought" them. Photos by Sable Brandt
