Revere High School’s (RHS) Student Council revived an old Halloween tradition to give back to the community and give students at Bath elementary a fun opportunity to involve themselves in school activities.
The longtime tradition of “The Boo,” created by the Student Council, was an annual haunted house hosted in the hallways of RHS. Children from Richfield Elementary would get to see the high school, eat treats and have fun.
Beth D’Amico, The Student Council Adviser, said members of Student Council came to her wanting to bring back the event after learning about it from her.
“It was the students’ idea. So the executive board wanted to do this. I don’t know if they wanted to do it because they attended it in the past when they were little. They did know about it because they found some of our old decorations in our closet that said Haunted High and they asked ‘What is this?’,” D’Amico said.
D’Amico and Dan Fry, the principal at Bath Elementary, coordinated the event to take place on October 24.
Fry expressed great enthusiasm for the idea. Fry was also especially happy for the opportunity to include Bath Elementary with what other schools in the district are doing.
“I love the idea of the high school students collaborating with us for something for our kids. They are impressionable, and they look up to the high school kids as role models. They love being able to do things with them, and I thought this would be a great opportunity for us to support the Student Council while they are supporting us,” Fry said.
Bath students can enter the Boo by giving in canned foods that will be donated to the homeless.
“The admittance is a canned good which will go to the St Vincent de Paul Society across [the street] at St Victor’s [where] they feed the homeless. They have a food bank and a chance for students to get volunteer hours,” D’Amico said.
The Treasurer of student council, Sydney Firca, planned and will be participating in the event.
“We are going to dress up as characters. We are going to do Disney princesses, Snoopy and other different things. We are going to be in the foreign language hallway and they are going through the classrooms and each room will have a theme,” Firca said.
“They’ll have activities in the hallway with the lockers, and then we’ll release them down the A wing [hallway.] Hopefully all rooms will be filled with clubs and kids dressed up and handing out candy, then they will exit at the end,” D’Amico said.
Fry hopes that the biggest success from this event is that the elementary kids have fun, and that it brings the Revere community closer and stronger.
“That’s always the main driver for kids when they are eight to eleven years old, it is that they like to have fun. I think the main takeaway was just that sense of community with the other buildings,” Fry said.
