At the beginning of the year, the Student Forum decided to support the World’s Greatest Shave – an annual fundraising event for the Leukaemia Foundation. Leukaemia is a blood cancer that can affect any one at any time. Bridgetown High School has never hosted a shave before – the last time students got involved in this awesome event was when Ebony Maley and Ashlee Drust shaved their heads outside Ooh La Lollipop back in 2013 or 2014.

At first, four Year 8 boys nominated themselves for the shave – Ewan, Luke, Rowan and Smith. Within a couple of days, four more eager volunteers nominated themselves – Conner, Imi, Lucy and Bayden.

The staff and students of Bridgetown High School could not be prouder of these eight students! Each one pledged to lose their hair in a quest to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation so further research for a cure and special care for the 110 000 Aussies battling blood cancer can continue to happen.

As you can see from the pictures below, it was a huge success! Despite their nerves and trepidation, all eight brave souls had their heads shaved for a fantastic cause. A huge thanks to both Jazz and Bonnie – two local hairdressers who volunteered their time to shave the student’s heads.

Meanwhile, we also held a free dress day (or in Mr Dareff’s case, a uniform day!) and a cake & slice stall, with all monies raised donated to the Leukaemia Foundation as well. A big shout out to Big Mike for baking a batch of his delicious donuts!

As of 4pm yesterday, and after a bucket of money collected by Ewan Fabiszak, the gold coin donations for the free dress day and the proceeds from the cake & slice stall totalling $825.30 all factored in, more than $5500 has been raised by the Bridgey Braves!!

Well done – each and every one of you!

A huge thank you must also go to Sharon Mann, who personally responded to many messages of support posted on the website.

This is a charity event we would be keen to support again in 2022, so think about nominating for next year!