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Spirit Week Staff and students were invited to embrace memes in Week 5 for the QMC annual Spirit Week. A meme is an internet phenomenon and takes the form of a humorous image, video or piece of text. This is then copied and spread rapidly by internet users, with slight variations. Spirit Week is hosted by the school prefects to get students to embrace school spirit and build the community. “Our theme for Spirit Week this year was Q Meme C. We wanted it to be a way for our overall school theme of gratitude to be modernised – every girl is familiar with memes in their day-to-day lives,”Head Prefect Lucy Poole says. Following the Spirit Week opening assembly, students were encouraged to show school spirit through whacky dress-ups, by collecting cans for charity and by creating their own“meme dances” to a remix of the school song. Wholesome memes about gratitude and positivity were also posted across the school by the prefects. “This year our school-wide competition was for students to make their own wholesome memes about things they are thankful for,”Deputy Head Prefect Ashley Chandra says. “So far, we had taken the serious stance with this year’s gratitude theme, which is good, but we wanted Spirit Week to be a chance for girls to have more fun with it,” Lucy adds. The annual netball games between staff and QMC prefects and QMC and Scots prefects were also held with QMC prefects taking out both games. The week ended with a final assembly where meme competition winners were revealed and English teacher Callum Harris embraced his own school spirit and performed for assembly in the QMC uniform. LIVE 46 Queen Margaret Calling :: ISSUE 63 :: May 2019