This year, the Student Leadership team again held a Trivia Night to raise money for the school. The student leaders and Mrs Glasby worked exceptionally hard to plan and deliver this highly successful event. It was held on Friday 8 August and was the biggest event we have hosted this year. 

Preparations for this night were in the works for over 10 weeks with Prefects, House Captains and Year 9 and 10 Beacon students working in collaboration to plan, organise and deliver this large scale event. The whole team worked positively together and put in a massive effort to ensure the night ran smoothly. 

On the day of the Trivia Night, we spent most of our school hours organising prizes and hampers for our attendees. Our first place prize was worth over $1,300, our second place prize was valued at over $815 and the third place winners received prizes worth over $470. 

The night was a huge success, and we cannot thank enough the many businesses from Kings Meadows, Launceston, Greater Tasmania and Interstate who were incredibly generous in their donations. The logos of these businesses can be found below. Families and individuals within our school community were also incredibly supportive and we’d like to thank the following for their big hearts in either donating a gift or helping us secure gifts:

The Plummer family, the Chugg family, the Marshall family, Grandma and Grandpa Glasby, Joh Breen, Belinda Selby, Todd Nankervis, Kate Hume, Scott Brewer, Wendy Dalton and Jo Bent. Without these people and businesses, the silent auction, raffle prizes, inter-round game prizes and overall prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place would not have been as phenomenal. 

With around 150 people in attendance, we had so many teams that the tables were spread across four classrooms. Mr Nankervis’s senior catering class had the unenviable job of feeding the hordes and they delivered platter after platter of sweet and savoury delicacies (including: pumpkin arancini, spring rolls, focaccia, choc-fudge brownies, jam-filled doughnuts and more). These platters were in the making for a few months and the student leaders and Mrs Glasby cannot thank the catering students and Mr Nankervis enough for their amazing food and professional service. 

In terms of questions, there were 10 rounds of challenging trivia questions across a range of categories including General Knowledge, Geography, Music and Art. Additionally, there were a number of inter-round competitions held throughout the evening. A fan favourite was the air guitar competition which was demonstrated to rapturous applause by the talented Mrs Glasby. The Air Guitar Champion title was eventually taken out by a very enthusiastic, energetic and engaging performance from Mr Meurant – Rock on Mr Meurant! 

Another amusing inter-round game was the student leader mash-up where three beautiful faces were mashed together to create another (not so beautifu)l face and tables had to guess which facial feature belonged to which student leader. These games broke up the night and gave the teams an added opportunity to gain extra valuable points. 

Overall, we raised over $4000 that will go towards the prefect legacy gift, which will be unveiled during our final assembly. 

The Prefect Board would like to extend our thanks to the staff, students, parents and wider community who supported the event and attended the evening, as well as all the staff and student leaders who gave up their time to help and support with the execution of the night. To round this missive off, a big shout out to the Year 9 staff team who took out first place. Well done! 

PS: Please remember to check out the pages below as they showcase all of the amazing businesses who supported this fabulously successful night.