The Starlight Foundation aims to brighten the lives of seriously ill children and their families. In week 8 of Term 1, Arcadia and Batavia Houses continued our tradition of holding a Starlight Day fundraising event to support the foundation and the important work it does. For a donation students could go uniform free and a sausage sizzle was held at lunchtime in the quadrangle. Some of the senior music students provided us with atmosphere and everyone enjoyed watching Mr Allsop get dunked to raise some extra cash. Later in the week we also had a successful bake sale with lots of sweet treats. There was also a jellybean jar guessing competition – congratulations to Gabriele and Adah who won the jars with the closest guesses. The event was a great success and I am proud to say resulted in a total of $2180.67 being raised to support the Starlight Foundation. Thank you to the Student Councillors and members of Arcadia and Batavia Houses who assisted and to everyone who took part in the events.

Reuben Farr
Head of House Batavia