Rand Park High School’s squires started their fundraising for the year ahead in style after they held their first Food Fiesta on 13 September.
The fundraising event was a western theme, where the boys were required to dress up, set up their stalls and work hard to serve food to hundreds of learners who wanted to support them.
The boys sold sweet treats, pancakes, popcorn, snacks, boerewors rolls, pita bread, samosas, pizza and chocolate chip cookies and other delicious goodies.
One group built western-style stocks, to be occupied by a willing teacher, head boy and head girl with others throwing wet sponges at them.
Running parallel with the success of the debutantes fundraising efforts, which raised in excess of R1 million, the squires had a lot of work to do to meet the standard set by the debs at the school.
School principal Alan Wilke said, “When approximately 1 200 learners arrive to buy their food items during the school break, the Food Fiesta quad – between the classrooms and admin office block – is filled with paying customers, including parents and boys who worked very hard to sell their goods.
“We are very grateful for their involvement and support.
It really is a service to the school to be involved in events like this. There was great spirit and it was a fun-filled morning. We look forward to another successful fundraising year.”
The debutantes and the squires’ programmes are alternated each year to allow the girls to raise funds one year, followed by the boys, the following year.
Grades 9 and 10 learners are invited to apply to be a squire and are required to raise a small amount in order to qualify for their official squire’s badge. The squires year started in mid-August 2018 and ends in July 2019.
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