If you’d walked into the Pavilion hub last week, you’d have known immediately that something special was going on.
Mad Hatters Tea Party at Phoenix Bay. And our students had been building towards it all week.
Decorations made by hand. Cakes, scones and biscuits baked from scratch. The whole space transformed with Alice in Wonderland posters and fabric – students walking into something they’d genuinely helped create.
Then the afternoon kicked off:
🐇 A rabbit hunt – pictures hidden all around school, each carrying a letter to decode at the end
🎩 Riddles, jokes and group games over lovely food
🍮 Get the rabbit’s clock out of the jelly. Without your hands!
🍩 Eat the donut hung from string. Also without your hands!
There were costumes. There was chaos (in the best way), there was a lot of laughter.
Not because of the tea party itself, but because of what it quietly asks of students – creativity, teamwork, problem-solving, and the kind of silliness that brings people together. The kind of joy that’s hard to manufacture but impossible to miss when it’s there.
The jelly challenge alone was worth it.
Really proud of every student who helped make it happen – and of every student who just turned up and gave it everything.
Brilliant afternoon.
