9 October, 2025, the day before the rally, marks the day the seniors performed their amazing skit, with the Homecoming Week theme being Animation Studios. The Freshman class represented Illuminations, the Sophomores as Sony, the Juniors as Disney, and finally the Seniors as Pixar.
This morning, the students were welcomed with festivities provided by the Senior class, with many works of Pixar Studios being showcased throughout the quad. Many students partook in the pre-skit, admiring props and designs that seniors have dedicated so much of their time to and put in hard work to bring to life. Beloved characters and movies were seen throughout the quad, with characters who will make an appearance in the skit running around the entire school, welcoming all the students and showing them the spirit of the seniors.
Alongside energetic seniors and displays of movies, services such as food and music were provided. Granada Highschool’s Marching Band welcomed arriving students at the front entrance of the school, as well as marching around the school grounds while playing cheerful and catchy tunes. Food stalls ran by seniors were established throughout the quad, as well as near the student union, providing free food which included pancakes, pizza, popcorn, soda beverages and ice shavings, lines formed of students going to please their appetite and filling their stomachs, preparing themselves to the big show to come. Right in front of the big gym a DJ stadium was placed, blasting popular music, adding onto to the overall joyous and lively atmosphere in the morning.
Overall, the senior pre-skit was successful in being able to provide immersion and joy to students who participated in the event. The seniors were able to transform the campus into a very lively Pixar experience, without a single moment of calm, seniors carried this event with their commitment to show their best. Music filling the air and with free food being provided, it was truly the best way to start the morning of a Thursday.
Nya Duncan (12) who serves as the Class Secretary for seniors was the organizer and coordinator for the seniors and was the one help managing the logistics of the pre-skit for seniors.
“I’m in charge of organizing everyone’s roles, what food we’re going to have [by] reaching out to companies so that we can get the food on campus and organizing wishlist and getting everything decorated and kind of delegate it to different groups.”
“We worked a lot with Costco, Trader Joes, Safeway this year, and also parents donating [through] our amazon wishlist.”
With so much anticipation and excitement for seniors to make their skit day the best, with more involvement from the senior class.
Duncan states, “I definitely noticed a big influx of people compared to last year, last year we only had a few people help out the night before, but this year we had so much more help, which definitely made pre-skit much bigger and successful this year.”
“My favorite part about working in pre-skit is that a lot of people who won’t actually do the skit will take part in pre-skit, so you get to talk to and work with a lot more people that you may have not met yet in your class before.”
Pre-Skit Photo Gallery
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The main skit’s storyline only lasting 30 minutes, provided a very good storyline that flowed well with the given timeframe, with crossovers of different movies that were made by Pixar, that ultimately leads to providing a strong message towards the end that resonated with many, especially seniors, with a good amount of character interactions and in between dance segments that involved Granada Highschool Dance and Cheer teams, as well as Hip Hop Club dancers.
The making of the seniors skit took a lot of coordination, hard work, and dedication with a lot of seniors putting in time and effort into making this skit enjoyable.
Ayla Gruss (12) the Class President for the class of 2026, who has written skit for all of her four years in Granada,
“My favorite part of high school I think [is] when I came into high school I didn’t think I would be responsible for this but it’s my favorite part about it and highly recommend it to anyone, it’s the perfect way to be involved.”
When writing the skit’s overall theme Gruss wanted to elaborate more on celebrating the last year for seniors in high school, providing a sentimental message for seniors and underclassmen.
“We really wanted it to be sentimental because I think that our class takes skit super seriously and I’ve felt our class being as united during skit, and like when I look back on my best memories in high school, I wanted communicate to all the underclassmen that it is really important to make memories in high school that you will remember for the rest of your life, so I think that a way to communicate that was through the idea of core memories, which is why we came up with the idea of Pixar.”
“The most challenging aspect is at the end [skit day], having everyone come together, so like bringing in props and managing pre-skit. Some people think the hardest part is writing the script, but I did that with my best friend over the past four years and it always came easily to us. I [also] think the difficult part was integrating the script with the actors, with the props, with the blocking (choreography), with the costumes, that was probably the most challenging part.”
With the mentions of props being involved, Kaitlyn Rodrigues (12) who is the Senior Class Treasurer, was responsible for managing the materials involved in creating and painting set designs and props for the skit.
“So we have a red bin on the side of the school and so that has a lot of the wood for our materials, otherwise we had to get them from donations from either stores or parents, we had a amazon wishlist, anything we could get from amazon is on the wishlist, otherwise we fill out a donation form and then we can take it to stores to ask for donations. I called Ace Hardware this year and they give mess up paint (incorrectly mixed paint) as donations, so I called them and asked if they have any paint for donations and then I went in and picked up a bunch of paint.”
“The hardest part [of making skit] is getting supplies we need for our skit from donations because we can’t spend any money of our class [funds] and everything has to be donated. Also finding people to construct our props, that has been a little hard to find so every year finding parents to build our props and then us to get them supplies and get it painted in time.”
“This year we only had one family involved in the constructing, they were able to construct the control panel and the shelf, our trifolding prop we had constructed in years past, we also had one other person help the props stand up, so like two groups helped us this year, but it is pretty limited on who we can get to help [based on] who responds to our emails.”
Despite limited amounts of people working on creating the atmosphere of the skit, the seniors were able to pull through and create perfect scenes for their performance, adding onto the immersion and making the story even better.
Overall the seniors involved in the skit have done a wonderful job in making this come to life, providing great entertainment and visuals for the school, but also leaving a message behind for the rest of the seniors and underclassmen on how they should treat their time here in Granada Highschool.
Skit Photo Gallery
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