February 4th-8th
This is meant to be a wonderful time of celebrating being a Bearcat so we will be having competitions in school for the “Spirit Stick” award to be given to the winning class at the end of the week at our Pep Rally on Friday. As you may know, we have specific guidelines when it comes to dress down days and we want to protect the appropriateness of this event by upholding these guidelines strictly. We want to have fun but we will not allow anyone to break the rules and go uninhibited because we do not want to ruin the fun for all because of a few. Please make sure that your child follows the guidebook (p. 26) that is pasted at the bottom of the page so we all can have good, clean fun this week. Below is the title and brief description of each of the spirit days with a few additional cautions.
- Monday: Mathlete vs. Athlete – Are you a nerd or jock? Students will dress in their best nerd or athlete outfits. They may wear jerseys of their favorite players on this day. If they choose to wear a uniform, it must not be immodest in how it fits as the guidelines indicate.
- Tuesday: Twin Day – Students will pick a partner that they would like to dress identically like. Please just make sure that the outfits fall into the guidelines but have some fun with it. We do ask that we remain gender appropriate i.e. no boys dressing up in girls’ clothing.
- Wednesday: Decades Day– Pick your favorite era of history and dress like the “good ole days.” Obviously there are certain cultural and historical trends “80s KISS rocker, men in tights, ect.” that would be obviously inappropriate.
- Thursday: Tourist Day – The traditional tourist who looks out of place. Sunscreen lotion on the nose, high socks, camera, etc.
- Friday: Color Wars – The students will be divided into teams and have “team colors” for the week which are as follows. They will be allowed colored hair for this day and may MARK their face with face paint. However, we will not be allowing full painting of faces, ect. due to the amount of mess that can be made as we go through the day. We also expect the students to come and leave the same. In other words, there is no applying paint during school hours nor is there any washing off during the day. This needs to be coordinated outside of the school hallways and bathrooms and locker rooms or we will not be able to have this in the future.
- Seniors and 5th grade A: Black
- Juniors and 5th grade B: Red
- Sophomores and 4th grade: Blue
- Freshmen and 3rd grade: Pink
- 8th and 2nd grade: White
- 7th and 1st grade: Purple
- 6th and K5: Green
Handbook Guidelines
Dress-down days may be announced occasionally, at the discretion of the Administration. Students will be notified well in advance of any upcoming dress-down days, as well as any changes to dress down attire as previously noted.
If dress down policy is violated, student will be sent to office to put on a uniform provided and will receive detention and discipline point.
- Students may wear loose fitting sportswear (no undergarment lines visible), which includes t-shirts, shorts, wind pants, joggers, etc.
- T-shirts should not have any inappropriate logos or messages.
- Clothing should still be neat and modest, not ripped or torn.
- No sweatpants, leggings or jeans should be worn.
- Shorts should be no more than two inches above the top of the knee (no cheerleading style “short shorts” are allowed).