By Peyton Dauley
After the long weekend, Mashpee students should return to school expecting a week full of events including spirit week, the pep rally, and our homecoming game and dance. All of this begins on Tuesday, with spirit week’s official kickoff on Color Wars day.
The themes for spirit week have been decided by the Class of 2019 Senior Officers, along with their class advisor Ms. Vaughn. Although, this year Mashpee students may notice a difference from past spirit weeks. Tuesday is the only day where the themes are grade-specific (for Color Wars, 7th grade is red, 8th grade is purple, 9th grade is yellow, 10th grade is green, 11th grade is brown, and 12th grade is black), and the rest of the week’s themes are applied schoolwide. Wednesday is America day, Thursday is dynamic duo day, and Friday is blue and white day.
After the long weekend, Mashpee students should return to school expecting a week full of events including spirit week, the pep rally, and our homecoming game and dance. All of this begins on Tuesday, with spirit week’s official kickoff on Color Wars day.
The themes for spirit week have been decided by the Class of 2019 Senior Officers, along with their class advisor Ms. Vaughn. Although, this year Mashpee students may notice a difference from past spirit weeks. Tuesday is the only day where the themes are grade-specific (for Color Wars, 7th grade is red, 8th grade is purple, 9th grade is yellow, 10th grade is green, 11th grade is brown, and 12th grade is black), and the rest of the week’s themes are applied schoolwide. Wednesday is America day, Thursday is dynamic duo day, and Friday is blue and white day.
“We decided to do them all together because we thought that it would bring the grades together, and unify them,” says senior class officer, Sarah McNamara. “It’s tough to get a lot of school participation, so we thought by making them the same and doing pretty easy themes we would get more students to participate and have a good spirit week.”
However, not all students found themselves in support of this change. “People won’t be as passionate about it and it doesn’t promote grade unity like it used to,” said Caitlin Boyd, a junior. “Spirit week used to be a time where we would band together and try to prove we are the best grade with the most spirit.”
Following the end of spirit week, Mashpee students from all grades will be called down to the gym at 1:06 on Friday for the annual pep rally, also planned by the senior class advisors. “It’s going to be a little bit of a surprise,” stated Sarah McNamara. “It’ll be similar to the past, there’ll be a lot of activities and games, as kind of a fun way to bring the school together.”
After the pep rally is the Homecoming football game. Mashpee plays against Hull at 7:00, the football team’s second home game since the beginning of the season.
On Saturday is Mashpee’s own Homecoming dance, from 7:00-10:00 PM at the school. Tickets will be $5.00 and sold at lunches next week. However, they will not be sold at the door.
Many Mashpee students and staff anticipate next week’s events. “It should create a sense of community among the students,” senior class advisor Ms. Vaughn said.