Cultural Diversity Week 

Cultural Diversity Week

In the last week of Term 3 from Monday 21st – Friday 25th of June Reservoir High ran our annual Cultural Diversity Week. This is a very important time for our school where we focus on celebrating our school community for their variety of cultural backgrounds from 65 different countries.

Throughout the week we had many special activities and competitions to assist the celebrations, firstly our Cultural Diversity Week logo competition which was won by Arielle Sandy-Meneses. 

Various other competitions were conducted at lunchtime and hosted by our lunchtime club program teachers, having some activities designed by our Year 9 Advance students who worked with the clubs teachers linking to the theme of Cultural Diversity. 

Lunchtime club competition results:

• International badminton doubles tournament.
  • Runners up: Krishkarandeep Sondh & Mimi Tran.
  • Winners: Jarrah Lovett & Jake Chen.
• Chinese Craft Club – Jake Proctor.
• Indoor soccer competition
  • Junior competition – Francesco Auditore, Tristan Palaia, Hervie Viray, Hendrick Viray & Malik Ali Ahmad.
  • Senior competition – Torey Crosta, Leo Vega, Isaac Wilson, Sufian Sagar, Ognjen Dragic, Ahmed Makhlouf.
• RAH map quiz – Oscar Edwards & Gavina Green.

On the Thursday we had the Term 2 Out of School Uniform day where our students raised over $500 for our SRC selected charity Rural Aid Australia. We also hosted a fancy dress competition where students were encouraged to dress in their own or a selected countries traditional clothing. There were many great entries and moves during the fashion parade, especially a surprise contestant Mr McNeil from Scotland! The results were:

• Runners up – Zainab Syeda, Zafirah Hussain & Miss Lazarus.
• Winners – Salma Abdi & Asma Ibrahim.

One of the highlights of the week was a special event on the Friday where we had a staff Vs students Volleyball match, where the staff were undefeated champions against the junior & senior students!!

Well done to all students who got involved and to the staff / Advance student hosts!!