Potter Elementary School held its annual Soup-er Bowl Rally on January 31, which saw the entire school compete to collect cans and packages of food to donate to the Council on Aging.

The event concludes the school’s week-long Kindness Challenge, in which each day had a different theme for dressing up and in-class activities focused on kindness.

Nearly 400 students — dressed in the jerseys or colors of their favorite sports teams — filled the cafeteria for an end-of-school assembly on Friday afternoon to find out which class won this year’s trophy for collecting the most non-perishable food.

Some even wore Potter school shirts. “We even said Potter could be a team,” said school principal Heidi Brooks.

This year’s event was unusual for two reasons. For one thing, the Patriots won’t be playing in the Super Bowl on Sunday.

“It’s weird,” said Brooks. “Usually when the Patriots are in [the Super Bowl], we have Patriots interviews that we put up on the screen, and a message from Tom Brady. And this year we’re like, ‘Who are the teams that are playing?’”

Aside from that, this year also broke all records for the Soup-er Bowl rally, which has been held at Potter for nearly a decade.

“It’s a record year,” Brooks said with a grin before the assembly. “[The kids] don’t know that yet. It all will be revealed.”

During the assembly she announced the tally for all of the different classes and grades, with Mrs. Oliver’s grade 3 class taking the trophy after they gathered a whopping 539 cans and non-perishable food items.

The students clapped and cheered after every class total was announced, giggling at videos of minions in between.

Brooks announced that as a reward for a job well done, the students would get a “Lego Day” next Wednesday, February 5.

In all, the school collected 3,296 food items for donation.