What does your school do to make Year 12 an awesome year?

[simpak]

Idg this obsession with giving students their jumpers in term 4 or just late in the year in general, can someone indicate why?
Is it so you don't wear it as 'school uniform' outside of the school, or?
Like, it just seems pointless because fyi if you wear that to uni people will grease you to the end of the earth.

[Lolly]

Idg this obsession with giving students their jumpers in term 4 or just late in the year in general, can someone indicate why?
Is it so you don't wear it as 'school uniform' outside of the school, or?
Like, it just seems pointless because fyi if you wear that to uni people will grease you to the end of the earth.

Yeah idk why, but we only just sent in our order. Not only that, but the jumpers are ridiculously expensive.

Our school has a common room and year 12 study centre, and the canteen staff sometimes give us free leftover food after recess or lunch. :)We have captain's chapel once or twice a term and they usually make a hilarrrrious video or skit. In the last captain's chapel we got a year 12 choir together and sang " Can you feel the love tonight".  We also have a final year 12 chapel which can be pretty crazy (lights, smoke machines, music, streamers the works...) We get a couple of people to talk about each year from 7 to 12 while managing to throw in the most ridiculous amount of in-jokes possible. We've just started planning for it now, but there'll probably be a graduation video ( with more in-jokes) a band, and whatever else we feel like doing. I think the choir might also make a reappearance . On our last day of school we go to Williamstown together with all the senior staff. Oh and we also have a valedictory dinner at some point. Ermahgerd I can't wait for all of this to happen. 

[Stick]

Idg this obsession with giving students their jumpers in term 4 or just late in the year in general, can someone indicate why?
Is it so you don't wear it as 'school uniform' outside of the school, or?
Like, it just seems pointless because fyi if you wear that to uni people will grease you to the end of the earth.

Yeah idk why, but we only just sent in our order. Not only that, but the jumpers are ridiculously expensive.

I'm not buying one on principle. And I've started convincing other people to do the same. The leadership team is getting a little bit pissed off at me for it, but I can't really justify spending $80 for something I will only wear for three weeks. Sure, it's a memento, but I think I'd rather just use my blazer as a memento and get people to sign it or something. Ideally, enough people will join me in my cause and something will be done about it. Last year's group actively tried to combat the senior staff and the principal regarding the matter and it got ugly. :S

/rant

[pi]

We got our yr12 jackets in term 4, so only got to wear it for a few weeks.

Pretty much everyone got one and I would recommend nothing against that.

Idg this obsession with giving students their jumpers in term 4 or just late in the year in general, can someone indicate why?
Is it so you don't wear it as 'school uniform' outside of the school, or?
Like, it just seems pointless because fyi if you wear that to uni people will grease you to the end of the earth.

Yeah it's because they put a high price on blazer as outer garment at MHS. Or so they say.

[brenden]

Man, we got our jumpers in like Term 2 I think. It was so fucking comfy, I'd get it in Term 4. As soon as the really cold weather comes around, I'm wearing that motherfucker to uni everyday. Not a single fuck given if I end up on Stalkerspace.

[Jeggz]

Idg this obsession with giving students their jumpers in term 4 or just late in the year in general, can someone indicate why?
Is it so you don't wear it as 'school uniform' outside of the school, or?
Like, it just seems pointless because fyi if you wear that to uni people will grease you to the end of the earth.

Why is this haha? 

[Shenz0r]

Because "it's a thing of the past" and you just look like a high schooler, rather than a uni student

[Mr Keshy]

I would never wear a varsity jacket to uni! But I thought hoodies would be okay?

[Sapphire]

We got our jumpers in term 1. But they messed up all the sizes and nicknames, so we have people walking around in really under/over sized jumpers with strange names haha

We have a formal, valedictory dinner, both after exams. Our common room is really just a classroom that we use at recess/lunch because it has a sink, sandwich maker, kettle, microwave and we stash coffee, sugar, tea in the cupboard under the sink so the classes that use the room during the day don't find them
Pretty much everyday someone or someone's mum has baked cookies or a cake and we all just share the food and blast music, then have to clean up and make it look like a classroom again.

[Furbob]

Man, we got our jumpers in like Term 2 I think. It was so fucking comfy, I'd get it in Term 4. As soon as the really cold weather comes around, I'm wearing that motherfucker to uni everyday. Not a single fuck given if I end up on Stalkerspace.

lucky as. In my year level a girl had a wahhh about not getting a captain position so she got the design the year 12 jumper

imagine this - a rugby jumper that was made up with a blue vest and white collar, magenta (looked very pink though) from the shoulders down with white stripes from the elbow down and it alternated on the other arm - white from the shoulder down and magenta stripes



it was the Frankenstein of pajamas.

[mikehepro]

MUCK UP DAY NEXT YEAR, I'M GONNA EGG ALL THE ANNOYING YR 10S.

[simpak]

Furbob that is hideous.

Re; when you get your jumper.  We got ours in like Week 2 of Term 1 and you weren't allowed to wear it as an outer garment 'ever'.  So whenever someone got caught wearing it down the street (that's another thing I forgot, you're allowed to go to restaurants and have lunch off campus in Year 12) they would always be like 'we're going to cancel the Year 12 formal if we find one other person wearing it' but then they totally didn't (despite it continuously happening) and I felt like they were only backing down because they'd already paid the DJ

[appianway]

lucky as. In my year level a girl had a wahhh about not getting a captain position so she got the design the year 12 jumper

imagine this - a rugby jumper that was made up with a blue vest and white collar, magenta (looked very pink though) from the shoulders down with white stripes from the elbow down and it alternated on the other arm - white from the shoulder down and magenta stripes

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it was the Frankenstein of pajamas.

Oh your school colors

[LeviLamp]

We had:
- a small and dingy but very warm (atmospherically speaking) common room attached to the Senior School office that contained a coffee machine (the hot chocolates were the best), a sink and some toasters, as well as three fairly ruinous computers and a printer. I think we had a bunch of information pamphlets on a shelf near the edge of the room so that the school could try to entice us into picking our future careers. It was a nice place to study and very friendly, but my appalling temporal behaviour in Year 12 meant I spent all my spares asleep on top of my books. Pretty sure my study scores would all have been 10 points higher if I hadn't been spending two hours a day dozing off in the common room. 

- the music department; significant for me because I was part of the symphonic band and flute ensemble, and our school, while decidedly average in academic terms, is apparently nationally renowned for being great at music! We got to go on tour to Tasmania and around Victoria and enter in fairly prestigious highschool competitions (as prestigious as a highschool competition can be, anyway) and the whole thing was amazing, even though it turned out my flute was broken at the end of the year and my flute teacher had failed to notice what I'd been complaining about for seven months. All worth it for the camaraderie and the great feeling when we won first place in the Elite Bands Division at South Street Having amazing musicians play for us and being tutored by them was also great, and Ingrid Martin has to be the best conductor in existence.

- sports teams, though I wasn't part of the school's HPE department at all during my time there (I moved to EHS after Year 9, so taking sport wasn't compulsory). The volleyball team was apparently a big thing and lots of Year 12s participated in it.

- Year 12 jumpers, which we got just before winter began. They're really comfy and I'm constantly wishing I could wear mine to uni

- a formal dinner near the year's end (our photographers were absolutely AWFUL, though )

- a valedictory presentation at Yarra Valley Grammar

- not much else, though the atmosphere of the school and its staff was indescribable in a very nice way and I find myself missing it all the time and wondering why I spent so much time undersleeping and so little appreciating the place >_>