User login | Create an account Home The School Junior Senior Activities Administration Contact Calendar of Events M T W T F S S 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 April Fools’ Day at St. Lawrence College Tuesday 1st April brought its usual set of tricks, jokes and pranks being played between teachers, between pupils, by pupils on teachers and by teachers on pupils – no one was spared! Some jokes were played on whole classes, such as Science teachers Ms Koutaki and Ms Papadatos informing their 8th grade Science classes that they were swapping teachers with immediate effect. Other tricks took chillingly precise preparation. Some pupils had prepared a special batch of ‘Oreo’ biscuits, by separating the outer-biscuit wafers, scraping off the white cream and sticking the biscuit back together with a toothpaste filling! Delicious! These were then offered to teachers. Mr Katsipodas took one, ate it, then told his class that he was in fact allergic to toothpaste. He followed this by secretly applying some red make-up to his face to mimic an allergic reaction. This fooled and seriously worried those very pupils who had tricked him with the toothpaste-biscuits. Revenge is sweet! (Certainly sweeter than toothpaste). Mr Holden asked form teachers of pupils from grades 7 to 10 to announce to their form classes that any pupil interested in swapping lives with a Chinese child for one year as part of a special exchange programme must see Mr Holden at once. Within five minutes of the announcement there were around 15 pupils queuing-up outside the Headmaster’s Office eager to sign away life in Greece for one year! In the Junior School grade 3 pupils were promised they would be going on a surprise trip to a very special location later in the day – only to discover that the trip was indeed to a very special location – their homes. And there were countless other tricks played in good spirits - Miss Elizabeth, the senior school secretary, was shocked to be told by some pupils that Thomas the cat had broken his leg. There were phone calls from the security guards to tell teachers their cars had flat tyres. Fake spiders and creepy-crawlies were put to good use, especially in the Junior School as well. All good fun! Back