Cat's Spirit Week

Cat had a blast during the Harry Potter-themed Spirit Week a few weeks ago!  I asked her to write about her experiences so the following is from her (with some editing).

These were the assigned groups for each grade:

7th grade: magical creatures

8th grade: Hufflepuff

9th grade: Ravenclaw

10th grade: Azkaban

11th grade: Gryffindor

12th grade: Slytherin

Dress-Up day themes:

Mon: spectacles

Tue: famous art (note from Mom: I thought this was uber-nerdy but then I remembered that the works of art at Hogwarts can move and talk so this theme actually did make sense)

Wed: robes

Thur: blue and gold (her school colors)

Fri: dress up like your grade's group

Chant: (to the tune of old town road)

Gonna take my wand to the common room

Gonna cast till I can't no more

I got the Badgers in the back

Yellow and the black

Ask the sorting hat

Hufflepuff is back!

The Friday before, I stayed after school to help decorate the 8th grade hall and it looked awesome!  Of course we won that competition.  During lunch we made wands, played fun games (I competed in the balloon popping competition), and watched quidditch matches. I was on the eighth grade quidditch team and we lost the match to the juniors. They're really scary.

Friday was the big finale.  We had an assembly at the end of the day where the whole school got together.  Each grade dressed up in their respective colors and showed their house spirit. There were so many different games that everybody played to try and earn last-minute points (you earned points during the week by winning the activities/games - and by everyone in your house dressing up). Hufflepuff was in the lead going into the Friday Spirit Bowl.  The games were played by all grades. You send a few representatives to play the games for your grade (I was in Human Hungry Hippos).

In the end, Hufflepuff won!! This is significant because everyone knows that the spirit bowl is rigged for the seniors to win because it's like their last hurrah or whatever. But this year they didn't win!

Final Standings:

8th - first

Juniors - second 

Seniors - third

Sophmores - fourth

Freshmen - fifth

7th grade - sixth

Ah, the joys of technology.

A meme artist at Cat's school posted this after the 8th grade's amazing victory.