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On time! Yes! Here are the April Results!
Hufflepuff wins the House Cup!
Ravenclaw wins the Quidditch Cup!
Head Girls are:
Cowsstealmythong with 5140 House Points for the month, and Kelsue35 with 3875 House Points for the month!
Congrats, ladies! Amazing work!
Great work to all the Houses, you all make me proud. Don't forget, if you'd like to set up your Cup or put on your badge, you can find them all at the bottom of this link:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/bronwenhilary/view/hogwarts-inter-house-challenge-1436130 -
Hello Students!
Hopefully we'll have some weekly updates on the houses posted here each week, and the HoH for each house can also come here to gather the information to post back to you in your common rooms. I'd love to see all four houses represented, but if we only receive information from three of them, as an example, then we'll post those three.
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Hello everyone!
It took a little time, but we have results in from all four houses for Week 1 of June! Thanks to the HoHs for getting me all the details!
Congrats to Hufflepuff for winning this week's quidditch match! :drinker:
Hufflepuff also took a strong lead in the House Cup competition with 437 house points! Impressive, badgers!0 -
HoHs (and all Hogwartians!)
Moving into July, we will be taking on a new process for weekly challenges. Each HoH will submit to me a challenge for the week they are assigned, and every house will use that same challenge for their Food/Exercise challenges. I would prefer that we have them set up for the month so that we don't have to worry about someone forgetting or not being available, but we can discuss changing that in future months if we need.
For July, however, please have your challenges submitted to me by June 26th so that we will be prepared. If a house chooses to change their challenge before the week comes up, we can always do that as needed. Once I have received the challenges, I'll post them for everyone to see, and the HoHs can update their sheets or common rooms with the information as well.
Current Proposed Schedule:
Week 1 - Gryffindor
Week 2 - Hufflepuff
Week 3 - Ravenclaw
Week 4 - Slytherin
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Great idea! A bit more competition for Ravenclaws to win!!!0
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Sorry for the delay on posting last week's results. My goal is to have them up by tonight (and then have the new ones posted by Wed/Thurs if I get all the house updates by then).
HoHs, if you haven't already, don't forget to send me your house's challenges for the upcoming month!
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And here we have June's Week 2 Results!
Congrats to Gryffindor for a solid win in the quidditch match this week!
And congrats to Hufflepuff for continuing their very strong lead in the House Cup competition - 646.8 house points!0 -
Sorry for the delay, everyone! We had some storms and power outages. Here are the July challenges!
Week 1 - Gryffindor
Food - Stay under your sugar macro goal for the day.
Exercise - Squats! For every day that you complete at least 20 squats, you'll earn your challenge for the day! If you complete at least 150 during the week, give yourself one extra OWL at the end of the week!
Week 2 - Hufflepuff
Food - Monitor your sodium levels! Each participant should have the sodium column in their diary and for every day they are 'under' the sodium 'goal', they should award themselves. For every day that the individual is under their sodium goal, they should award themselves 5 NEWTs (or OWLs, depending on the house's usual tracking system). As well as that, for every glass of water an individual has they should award themselves 1 NEWT/OWL, so 1 NEWT/OWL per glass.
Exercise - This week's exercise is crunches! For every set of 10 crunches an individual completes, they should award themselves 5 OWLs. A bonus 5 OWLs can be awarded for 60 minutes of exercise completed, and that can be any form exercise.
Week 3 - Ravenclaw
Food - Eat at least four servings of vegetables during the day.
Exercise - Aim for 50 jumping jacks per day! You can split them up throughout the day or you can complete them all at once.
Week 4 - Slytherin
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Week 3 Results are here!
Congrats to Gryffindor for edging ahead this past week in house points!
And congrats to Slytherin for their impressive quidditch match victory!0 -
Just an FYI--
I'll be on a short family vacation over the next several days, so I don't know if I'll be able to post the final June results until after I'm back. My goal is to have them posted Sunday, but worst case scenario, Monday should be the day.
Hope you're all having a great holiday week!0 -
thanks!0
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I'm late, but I'm still here. Things went a little crazy at work, so I'm going to beg for some patience until I'm able to update everything.
Thank you to all of the HoHs for being so amazing and sending all the information each week. You're all fantastic!
Reposting the challenge information in the meantime!
Week 1 - Gryffindor
Food - Stay under your sugar macro goal for the day.
Exercise - Squats! For every day that you complete at least 20 squats, you'll earn your challenge for the day! If you complete at least 150 during the week, give yourself one extra OWL at the end of the week!
Week 2 - Hufflepuff
Food - Monitor your sodium levels! Each participant should have the sodium column in their diary and for every day they are 'under' the sodium 'goal', they should award themselves. For every day that the individual is under their sodium goal, they should award themselves 5 NEWTs (or OWLs, depending on the house's usual tracking system). As well as that, for every glass of water an individual has they should award themselves 1 NEWT/OWL, so 1 NEWT/OWL per glass.
Exercise - This week's exercise is crunches! For every set of 10 crunches an individual completes, they should award themselves 5 OWLs. A bonus 5 OWLs can be awarded for 60 minutes of exercise completed, and that can be any form exercise.
Week 3 - Ravenclaw
Food - Eat at least four servings of vegetables during the day.
Exercise - Aim for 50 jumping jacks per day! You can split them up throughout the day or you can complete them all at once.
Week 4 - Slytherin
Food - Polyjuice challenge - 1 earned for every day you don't have a beverage that is over 50 cals.
Exercise - Flagrante challenge - 1 earned for every day you burn over 400 calories or more.0 -
June End-of-Month Results!
Unfortunately, I don't have the week 4 results for Slytherin, so I had to update it without Slytherin included, but I can update after the fact if needed.
Congrats to the June House Cup Champions - HUFFLEPUFF! Awesome job being so consistent with your exercise, guys!
And congrats to the June Quidditch Cup Victors - RAVENCLAW! Really proud of you all! *beams*
I don't have all the information posted yet for the Head Girl/Boy or Quidditch Captain, but I'll edit this post once I do receive that information. Good luck during the month of July!0 -
Hello fellow students!
We only have results from two houses for July so far, but I wanted to at least show you where we are:
Hufflepuff started out amazing for the month (impressive!), but it looks like both houses struggled a bit last week. Let's see if we can turn that around by the end of the month!
Also, I'm going to try to advertise a bit on here to see if we can get some new recruits. We have at least one house with virtually no activity, so I'd like to get them moving and improve our excitement in general. Let me know if you have any other thoughts to help!0 -
Hi Kelly, some Ravenclaws think we should go back to having spirit OWLS, as they increase participation in the common rooms. That might be an idea!0
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Hi Kelly, some Ravenclaws think we should go back to having spirit OWLS, as they increase participation in the common rooms. That might be an idea!
Sorry I missed this, but I love the idea. I'll add that each week the challenges so that we can try to promote that as well.
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Updates will be coming soon, but for now...
August Challenges:
Week 1 - Gryffindor
Food - One earned for every day you stay under your carb macro (feel free to do some research and set this macro as you see appropriate for yourself and your goals).
Exercise -One earned for every set of 10 tricep dips!
Spirit - One earned for every day you post in your house's Common Room!
Week 2 - Hufflepuff
Food - TBD
Exercise - TBD
Spirit - One earned for every day you post in your house's Common Room!
Week 3 - Ravenclaw
Food - TBD
Exercise - TBD
Spirit - One earned for every day you post in your house's Common Room!
Week 4 - Slytherin
Food - TBD
Exercise - TBD
Spirit - One earned for every day you post in your house's Common Room!
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Week 3 Results:
Congrats again to Hufflepuff for leading the school in the House Cup competition *AND* winning this week's quidditch match!
The Badgers are on a roll - any house think they can step up to challenge them? ;D0 -
Congrats Hufflepuff on a good week!!0
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Well done Hufflepuff! Come on Ravenclaw, we can do it!0
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Here are the challenges from Hufflepuff for week 2
NEWT (food challenge) Eat a rainbow of fruits and vegetables. 1 newt daily for each color of the rainbow that you eat. Add 1 extra newt if it is fruit or vegetable you are trying for the first time. I am enclosing a link to some examples of how to ad a rainbow to your eating habits.
http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/yf/foods/fn595w.htm
OWL (exercise)challenge
Focus on back and core strength
Superman exercises 1 newt for each set of 12 completed
http://www.livestrong.com/video/2526-do-superman-exercises/
Spirit - One earned for every day you post in your house's Common Room!0 -
Ravenclaw challenges for Week 3: Let's keep it simple and go back to basics until Hogwart's returns to session after summer break :laugh:
Food: Drink your water - replace one of your less-healthy drinks (soda, coffee, juice, etc) with a glass of water each day. One OWL for each day you meet your water goal plus one bonus OWL each day you replace another beverage with water.
Exercise: Target the abs - one OWL each day you do some focused ab work of your choice.
Spirit: One OWL each day you post to your house common room.0 -
And to stress the importance of drinking your water, here is an article that I came across this morning titled "Summer is peak season for kidney stones". It's worth a read...
http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/17/13338440-summer-is-peak-season-for-kidney-stones?lite0 -
I would like to take a quick moment to apologize to everyone. I am usually the last person to take off without notice and not at least post an update to explain why I haven't been active, but unfortunately, this time I definitely was that person.
I love these houses and this entire group, so I'm really sorry that I've been absent, but I'm currently separating from my husband, which has taken up my time in several different ways, including not having access to internet as frequently as I had. I should be getting back on track very soon, but until then, I didn't want to keep everyone waiting without an update.
If you'd like to have someone step in to my place, I won't be the least bit offended. However, if you'd rather just hold off, I should be back to normal by September. I have a small vacation coming up that I'm looking forward to (it's a bit of a send-off after my hearing next Wednesday), but after that, I should be settled back into my house and with internet full-time like before. If something happens and I won't be able to, I'll let you know.
I really hope you are all doing well - thank you so much for posting the challenges and staying with it. You're amazing. 0 -
Hey Kelly, I'm so sorry to hear about your problems, am sending positive thoughts your way!
I thought you were doing a great job of Headmistress before your absence so I'd be quite happy to have a bit of a break (still posting in common room and so on) and wait for you to get back in touch in September. Enjoy your holiday and try to relax a bit, it sounds like an extremely stressful time! Lottee x0 -
Kelly - my thoughts are with you. Hang in there... :flowerforyou:
I think that since the Hogwarts school year begins September 1 any way, there's no reason to replace you just yet
. Take care of yourself and see you when term begins. 0 -
Any idea what challenges are that start tomorrow?
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Hey, new Slytherin here.... This sounds like a fun group and a fun way for me to get moving and have people hold me accountable for exercises and food choices! I just need to find a place to weigh in.... as I don't normally do that. 0
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HEY... It all starts tomorrow!! I cannot wait to get this group back, with all house members participating! (A girl can dream right!)0
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Hiya everyone! I'm back after a big break.... life got in the way and has been kicking my butt, I'm ready to jump back in! I was sorted in Gryffindor in all quizzes I've taken and was sorted in Slytherin by Pottermore. I was in Gryffindor in Hogwarts Castle, but I am noticing no activity in the common room. I certainly don't want to jump ship, but I'd like to be in an active group.
Just let me know where new students are needed :bigsmile:0
