The Topsfield Fair is a huge part of the opening of any school year at GHS. As has become tradition, students this year brought home blue ribbons in everything they entered, both individually and as a group. Fourth, fifth and seventh graders all won first place in the postercontest following this year’s “Farm to Table” theme.
Entries require a lot of work, and our year round schedule gives our students a bit of a head start as they are raring to go once the traditional calendar says it’s the new school year.
The pumpkin display exhibit showed off our own theme of The Addam’s Family, with each specimen designed as one of the famous and well known characters. This was the same design we used in our float for this year’s parade (see parade post).
It is always thrilling to watch the projects come together under Ms. Julia’s prodding, cajoling and inspiring tutelage. Alums who return and see current kids working are always taken back in time to their own experiences in the same contests. The hectic pace, the thrill of waiting to hear… it is quite a spectacle.
