Shrove Tuesday
Pancake day is celebration of Shrove Tuesday. Shrove Tuesday is always the day before Lent and is seen as the last opportunity to use up eggs and fats before embarking on the Lenten fast. Making pancakes are the perfect way of using up these ingredients and for us at OLSCC, it also promotes the idea of community spirit sharing and coming together over a meal before the start of lent.
This year saw a bit of a competitive house spirit introduced into the idea of pancake Tuesdays with houses competing to see who could distribute the most pancakes to fellow house mates and the school community. Each house was given an equal amount of batter to work with and coloured to represent each house's colours. Student brought in their own toppings and items such as advertising to give their pancakes a competitive edge.
It was good to see such a wide range of students from Years 5-12 pitching in early on the Tuesday morning to help prepare and sell their pancakes. People wanting a pancake could receive one free of charge on the day, and our generous community also donated $425 towards Project Compassion.
Final pancake totals were:
- Rice 249
- McAuley 213
- MacKillop 194
- Nolan 178
