West has bumped it up this year to celebrate Halloween school-wide. Through the use of friendly competition, students and staff at Cherry Hill West competed in a game of rock, paper, scissors with each other to collect the most beads in order to win a Wawa gift card. Students were also able to purchase Boo-grams for their friends as another way to participate in the Halloween spirit. 

The activities that West had to offer this year for Halloween were a big hit and made a huge impact on the atmosphere at school.

• “I think it’s so great. I love all of the efforts being made to make high school more fun. I love all the students’ involvement, I think it’s fantastic” – Mrs. Berlenher
  
• “It’s definitely fun and festive. It’s not like any of the other years where it’s so boring” – Hailey Eduardo (10th grader)
  
• “Oh, I think it’s so much fun. I am excited for this year. We have all these activities, and it’s doing an amazing job. And I just love seeing the students having fun and wanting to be here” – Mrs. Lomon
  
• “I think the rock paper scissors game is actually a pretty cool idea with people dueling each other, but the only thing is some people did not get them, like the choir kids and maybe lower the music because the music was a little crackly, but other than that it was cool” – Holden Page (12th grader)
  
• “The music was lowkey a little bit corny, but it’s kind of funny. So, like, I think they should keep doing it because it makes people laugh” – Chris Zorn (12th grader)

• “I like the idea, and I think that a lot of people are having fun. I wished more people played because there’s only a select few that are actually playing” – Hajdi Balli (12th grader)

• “I think it’s fun, and a good idea for Halloween” – Eliza (11th grader)

Many of the students and teachers brought in the Halloween spirit by wearing their spooky costumes.

• “My costume is a clown and it was inspired by the art that I’ve been doing lately” – Hajdi Balli (12th grader)

• “My costume is a little boy with a propeller hat and a lollipop and I picked it because it was a meme recently” – Holden Page (12th grader)

• “I’m a mime and I just thought it would be easy and cute” – Leah Lomon (10th grader)

• “I’m Shrek and I saw the costume at Walmart like a month ago, picked it up and said, that’s what I’ll be this year” – Mr. Ciavarella

• “Well, I really wanted to do something stereotypical for an Asian, and I saw this Squid Games costume. I really wanted to be Kpop Demon Hunters but those costumes were sold out and then I saw this and it was just meant to be” – Mrs. Lomon

• “It is Benson Boone. I just thought it would be funny and I wanted to make my students laugh and have fun” – Mrs. Berlenher

• “My costume is a mix of Toji, an anime character, and a skeleton” – Joel Vasquez-Home (12th grader)

• “Coraline Jones, because I love the movie and my blue hair” – Eliza (11th grader)

• “We are My Little Pony characters and we were inspired by our friend, Roger” – Liz and Thu (12th graders)

• “I’m a pirate because I like pirates” – Mallory Swaroski (10th grader)

Almost all the students that I’ve talked to said that they were going trick-or-treating this year. But what age is considered too old to be trick-or-treating?

• “You’re never too old to trick or treat” – Mallory Swaroski (10th grader)

• “ Freshman year of college” – Liz (12th grader)

• “Freshman year of high school” – Thu (12th grader)

• “I feel like you can never be too old to trick or treat, that’s me personally, but until you look too old, you should not be trick or treating” – Joel Vasquez-Home (12th grader)

• “Never too old” – Mrs. Lomon

• “Never too old to be trick or treating” – Mrs. Berlenher

• “Anyone who’s out of high school should not be trick-or-treating” – Mr. Ciavarella

• “20 years old” – Eliza (11th grader)

• “I don’t think there’s an age that’s too old to be trick-or-treating. If you want candy, you should go and get it” – Hajdi Balli (12th grader)

• “Never” – Hailey Eduardo and Leah Lomon (10th graders)

What’s your take?