The Spookiest Season comes to BEHS
The 19th anniversary at BEHS and a community favorite celebrate Halloween in the Halls, and most people go trick-or-treating and have fun with friends. BEHS celebrates all of this and so much more.
Preparing for BEHS’s tradition, Kristen Tinelli, the House Coordinator of this whole operation, has plenty of experience planning the event. “So when Miss Barr first asked me to do it, she just said, I think you’d be really good at this. How about taking this over? For me, it was a really small event at the time. We actually had clubs decorating different hallways, and it was all in just a Halloween theme,” Tinelli said.
On Tuesday, Oct. 28, from 6-8 p.m., BEHS will open up the doors for all the children in the community to go through each of the halls, which all have different themes that the kids will be able to explore. Halls themed like Minecraft and Wicked, Tangled, and many more.
Teachers and students have been working extremely hard to make sure all of the props and materials are ready for Halloween in the Halls. “I have to keep a big to-do list, but this event in particular is really good for our community, and I know our students love it, and they love building the props and decorating and dressing up, and then they really love seeing the little kids, and the little kids really enjoy it. So I am glad that I can do that for the community, or that I can organize this event so that you know, our community enjoys it,” Tinelli said.
Another teacher who’s helped in Halloween in the Halls, Andrea Isaacs, explains why she first joined to help. “The easiest answer is my daughter, Sadie, started her freshman year, and I wanted her to have a really memorable high school experience, and so I knew that being a House Leader with her class in particular, would help me to have a little bit of influence and even kind of control to making that experience really memorable and kind of robust for her,” Isaacs said.
One of the struggles that BEHS faces for Halloween in the Halls is the senior class; many of the seniors cannot help but like they did in the past. Without the extra help, it has given more work to teachers such as Isaacs, luckily. Someone stepped up to help. “Mrs Kersey, who is one of our art teachers, was excited to jump in, and she brings us so much to the table, so obviously listening to like, her creative ideas and just she has a better sense of how to bring some of this to life that I maybe am not as good at,” Isaacs said.
The best part of Halloween in the Halls that the teachers have said is seeing the kids who come to trick or treating. Having the community looking forward to Bullitt East has given a pride that the faculty and the students can share, “So Halloween in the halls is truly one of the biggest, if not the biggest, community events that we do. I mean, the football games, obviously, are a big deal, and a lot of people show up for those. But Halloween is once a year. I love all the little kids that come through.” Tinelli said.
BEHS is right on schedule for props, decorations, materials, etc. However, one of the major issues is getting enough candy for each family that comes through, and donating as much as possible will go back to the community. “And then also kind of sponsor a little candy donation competition here between first period, so that we get a lot of candy, because lately, the last few years, we’ve had anywhere from 1500 to 1800 trick or treaters. And so that is a lot of candy that we need so that we don’t run out.” Tinelli said.
Be prepared for Halloween in the Halls to be spookier than any other year.
