High School Hunger Games | Principal Dresses as Effie Trinket
Newton North Principal Jennifer Price dressed as Effie Trinket
I wish I had gone to this High School!
At Newton North High School in Massachusetts, their school wide book this year is ‘The Hunger Games‘. In celebration, the school created their own high school Hunger Games called, the “Tiger Hunger Games“. After having every student in the school read the book, a total of 26 students were reaped as tributes from the pool of over 200 students that applied. According to The Newtonite:
The Tiger Hunger Games consisted of seven physical and mental challenges and 26 students, who represented the 13 districts of Panem, the setting of The Hunger Games. After each challenge, physical education and health and wellness teachers eliminated four students who were unable to complete the task set before them. The final round consisted of the two remaining students.
In celebration of the event, they even had their very own Effie Trinket. Principal Jennifer Price rode around in a Effie’s wig and makeup, yelling “Happy Hunger Games” in her best Effie accent. To top it off, she did it all on a futuristic motorized segway!
In between each challenge, Ms. Price asked questions regarding The Hunger Games. Here is a breakdown of the stages tributes went through in the “Tiger Hunger Games”:
Archery in the Tiger Hunger Games
In the first stage, student tributes stood inside hoola-hoops in a ring around the center circle of the field. Students had to gather as many supplies as they could from inside the circle and bring them back to where they were standing. At the same time, students had to protect their supplies from others who attempted to steal them. This challenge simulated the cornucopia scene from The Hunger Games.
In stage two, students threw objects at designated areas on the field to score points.
In stage three, students crawled underneath hurdles to collect four balls. Tributes could only take one ball at a time and had to place them in a bucket.
In stage four, the tributes answered trivia questions pertaining to The Hunger Games. The four students who answered questions incorrectly or did not answer questions were eliminated.
In stage five, students tried to hold balls in their lap while crab walking across a small section of the field.
In stage six, tributes were challenged to build pyramids out of cardboard disks by moving them from one peg to another.
In the final stage, the last two tributes competed, fittingly enough, in Archery. And only one tribute came out victorious. The victor of the Tiger Hunger Games was sophomore Sean Fitzpatrick.
Victor of the Tiger Hunger Games, sophomore Sean Fitzpatrick
Check out more photos of Ms. Price and the Tiger Hunger Games below, along with a video of their Effie Trinket HERE! You can read more about NNHS and their Hunger Games here!
source: Douglas Abrams of the Newtonite
photo sources: Reddit, Tumblr, Tumblr, The Newtonite
Oh my gosh that is so cool! I want my school to do that!
Well mine did. Both of the District 12s were from my homeroom! It’s kind of funny that a lot of kids didn’t know that was the principal.
Lol thats cool, you’re so lucky.
I was there!!!! I was part of Distict 13. Most of us never expected for it to go viral so much and so fast!!! It’s all over the place now… ^o^
My school <3 Newton North Tiger pride baby!!!!!!!!!! (assigned district: 7)
Im SOOOOO Jelly
it was amazing.
district 8
i love my school
best day of the year so far! no one thought it would take off like this!
Never would have thought that my school would go viral! AMAZING!
district 7 woohooo! best day of the year
I may just propose this to someone at my school! More than likely it won’t get done though :/ But this sounds really fun!
wow awesome i didn’t think my school would go viral!!
haha! that headteacher is a legend!! =D
Newton North TV&Film Production students filmed the event for Tiger Tube, the official Newton North High School TV show. The first episode of this year’s season will feature the Tiger Hunger Games with NNTV’s own cinematic spin. Keep an eye out for an upcoming preview on the Newtonite, and the full episode will be broadcast on the NewTV Education Channel and online at NewTV [DOT] org. We anticipate that “Tiger Tube – Volume 29, Episode 1: Tiger Hunger Games” will be publicly viewable by November 2012.
NEWTON NORTH>>>>>NEWTON SOUTH
I’m graduated but my school districts Junior High did something similar last year. But instead of having individual people they would have 2 homerooms represent one district and would compete as teams. My little brother was in District 2 and had a blast. My college, SUNY Brockport, is actually doing their own hunger games but I missed the deadline to be put in the reaping!!!
ohh that so cool!!
Principal Jennifer Price (Effie Trinket above) is nominated for Yahoo Women Who Shine! for her Global Education Leadership Fund (GELF) scholarship that helps low income students from Newton High Schools travel aboard. If she wins the $10,000 prize, 16 additional additional students will be able to travel abroad next year. Please vote for her http://yhoo.it/RSSqA9 Thank you! May the odds be forever in your favor!