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Why Should School Spirit Be Encouraged?

The primary reason to host various spirit week events is to get everybody on campus excited about their school and to demonstrate support for the school, its various groups and all of its athletic programs. Spirit week also provides a platform for students to form solidarity as it works together on joint projects that can be civic or school oriented. It’s important for everyone to have positive feelings about their school.  

What Are Some Great Spirit Week Ideas?

There are many ideas toward conducting a successful spirit week.  Making the event effective for a week at a time gives time for students to demonstrate their creativity including different types of outfits based on single themes.  Here are some thematic school spirit week ideas:

- Polynesian
- Old Towne
- Cartoon characters
- Medieval
- Movie and superhero characters
- Crazy hair
- Animal day
- Taco Tuesday
- Living in the 80’s

These various themes to encourage school spirit set the tone for students by encouraging them to dress a certain way.  The crazier a theme can be, the more involved and excited the students will be. The planning portion of these spirit week ideas is to properly communicate what is allowed to be worn on campus along with various items that will not be allowed.

What Kind of Activities Typically Occur During Spirit Days or Week?

Some of the types of activities that occur at these events include:

- Crafts
- T-shirt and face painting
- Games that are based on school themes
- Students decorating the halls and common areas of the school with things like banners and streamers

Pep rallies and various student assemblies provide great opportunities to engage school spirit.  Other types of great student activities could include:

- School dances
- Community development projects
- Various bake sales
- Car washes, etc.

Using community projects as one possibility, students could arrange to have unified t-shirts, water bottles and signs promoting a particular project.  For instance, students could rally in a competitive way to rake the fallen leaves for the neighbors surrounding the school.  They could offer these same residents the same type of t-shirts, pens and water bottles for a donation to support their campus cause.  A tally of the bags of leaves collected could net winners of the event along with a photo op and press piece for newspaper and television.

Spirit Week and Fund Raising

Some schools acquire school spirit items wholesale from vendors who specialize in such ware.  These items can include:

- Buttons
- Pins
- Signs and flags
- Pens and pencils
- Computer mouse pads and thumb drives

In advance, a charity or charities can be selected and the proceeds can then be sent to benefit this worthy cause.  Profits can also be used to support various campus needs as well.

Spirit Week and Celebrated Events

School spirit week provides another way to support on-campus planned events such as:

- Basketball tournaments
- Marathon races
- Karoke night
- Talent show

It’s also a good idea to have summer events as it helps new students become acquainted with students and staff before school starts.  Also, the weather is usually much better!