Spirit Day 2012!

Do you like Spirit Day?  Spirit Day is when we celebrate and support our town’s sports teams as well as the DS Regional Middle & High School teams. This year Spirit Day was requested by the regional football team’s coach, according to our Assistant Principal, Dr. Reinemann. We’ve had Spirit Days in past years to support our professional teams such as, New England Patriots, Boston Celtics, Boston Bruins, Boston Red Socks, New England Revolution, and the Boston Cannons.

 To show our support, students and staff wore DS colors – blue, black and white. Here are what students and teachers think of Spirit Day. Some said that they like it because of the clothes they get to wear; town team jerseys, professional team jerseys, regional school team jerseys, and gym shorts or sweat pants. Others said that they like it because all the kids get to wear the same clothes. We wondered what the teachers would think.

The teachers like it because they think it is a fun time for kids to express their spirit for their town! One teacher said that she likes it, but thinks it needs to be “more exciting.” She also says that she likes the idea of spirit day because she likes having the whole school dress up and build a sense of community. Her favorite part is that everybody in the school can participate and be proud of Dover and Chickering.

After a teacher shared that Spirit Day should be “more exciting”, we started thinking of ways to make it more exciting. We thought that we could add to the school lunch football-shaped cookies; it might help to get everyone excited about the games. We could also have one of the DS regional teams come to our school and teach us some of their tricks or skills. We like Spirit Day because it is a fun way for kids to wear team colors and support our town, and we think every school should get a chance to try celebrating a Spirit Day.

Reported by: Nora, Tom, Lucas, and Patrick