Halloween Costume Day

(Pictured: Year 11 winners; Phoebe, Marley and Ella dressed as characters from the spooky stop-motion Coraline, and Carla from Year 10, who gave a wonderful performance on her unicycle!)

Given the bleak and dismal mood that 2020 has offered to us these past ten months, last Friday’s Halloween costume day at Fort Street provided an uplifting and jovial respite for everyone at the Fort. The SRC combined powers with the school executive to, on short notice, enthusiastically plan the event for the school community. For most of 2020 mufti days have been few and far between – unless, of course, you count the eight or so weeks of consecutive mufti (or possibly better termed “pyjama”) days which we all endured (or enjoyed) earlier in Term One and Two. School committees and other like minded groups were forced to put their plans on hold in the name of pandemic suppression and social distancing, and this only served to make the Halloween Costume day even more festive for everyone in the school. Students were encouraged to come dressed in their spookiest Halloween costumes, and even some teachers joined in on the fun by dressing up and handing out lollies – individually wrapped and in a socially distanced manner, of course. The best costumes from each year group, chosen based on merit and general spookiness, even won some amazing prizes in the form of $50 gift cards! It was amazing to see the variety of costumes and fabulous hard work that had gone into creating them. The day – which has never been celebrated at Fort Street until now – was a resounding success and managed to brighten the mood of almost everyone, and we can’t wait to celebrate it again next year in (hopefully) better times!

Fort Street SRC Exec Team 2020/2021