On Tuesday 30th November 2020 students took part in our annual House Advent Wreath Making Competition.
Back for its fifth successive year, the popular competition gives five groups of students, one from each house, the chance to get creative as they roll up their sleeves and dive into the task of creating an Advent Wreath in just forty-five minutes. It is not just bragging rights at stake, they are all chasing that winning top spot and bagging the maximum amount of points for their house.
In a normal year, this would be a mixture of students from various year groups in each house team, however, with the ongoing pandemic we have had to change it up a little. To keep students safe, only Year 10 students took part this year as they are in a bubble.
House points are awarded throughout the year for various competitions, events and for core school achievements such as Attendance. You can read more about House Points, how they are awarded and the current totals here.
After 45 minutes of cutting, shaping, snipping and glitter flying everywhere, our five wreaths were complete and ready to be scored by our team of judges. The five finished wreaths are below….Who is your winner? Results below!
After a lengthy adjudication, it was time to announce the results.
In this year’s competition St. Margaret Clitherow took the top spot, improving on their third place finish in last years competition.
Two-time competition winners St. John Boste could only match their performance of 2019 taking second place.
St. Anne Line, who won the competition last year, came in third, overall points leaders Blessed John Ingram took fourth with St. Thomas More’s entry finishing fifth.
Again, in a normal year, the finished wreaths would be displayed in various locations around the school and lit in assemblies, however, we are not having assemblies at present so the finished wreaths were taken home by staff.
Well done to everyone who took part. The wreaths this year are some of the best we have ever had over the years and any of them could have been worthy winners in previous years.
Head over to our Gallery for a selection of pictures from the event.