A key annual fundraiser in the Middle School at the St Kilda Road Campus, WiSSH (Wesley is Supporting Sacred Heart Mission) just keeps getting bigger every year. The wonderful thing about WiSSH Week, held near the end of Term 1, is that at its core, it’s a genuinely student-led initiative.
Our Middle School classes devise and run a weird and wonderful array of stalls as part of the fundraising effort during lunchtimes across the week. This year, Senior School students also got involved, coming back as WiSSH mentors to their younger peers, and even running their own stalls.
Our chief organiser, Charities and Community Service Prefect Ethan, said students ‘blew it out of the park with some awesome creativity and execution.’
Students buy ‘WiSSH Tokens’ and use them at any of the stalls, be it games of skill and chance, or tables offering delights such as cupcakes or mini pancakes. The showstopper this year was the right dowsing Ethan and Head of Senior School, James Brown, endured as the two people who had ‘earned’ the most tokens for the ice bucket challenge.
‘WiSSH is a logistical beast; the spreadsheet was just about ready to crash the server!’ said Service Learning Coordinator, Claire Meath. ‘Having the school community so engaged helped to create a wonderful sense of community spirit and it really felt as if we were living our 'Connections that matter' theme.'
This year, an impressive $10,359 was raised, bringing the total amount raised for Sacred Heart Mission since WiSSH began just four short years ago to over $45,000.
