Students’ Spirit Week takes on COVID-19 theme

Posted 11/5/20

There’s no big homecoming football game for the Cowboys this fall, but students at Chimacum Junior/Senior High School are still celebrating Spirit Week.

And this time, it will have a hint …

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Students’ Spirit Week takes on COVID-19 theme

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There’s no big homecoming football game for the Cowboys this fall, but students at Chimacum Junior/Senior High School are still celebrating Spirit Week.

And this time, it will have a hint of the coronavirus.

Eugenia Frank, one of the student representatives to the school board, told the board that student leaders had finalized plans for Spirit Week.

This year, Spirit Week is following the theme of “Quarantine Dayze,” she said, “to kind of highlight the monotonous feeling we’ve all been feeling recently.”

“We’re hoping that people are going to dress up,” she told the board at its Oct. 28 meeting. “I know I’m excited to; it should be lots of fun.”

Spirit Week started Monday with “Get Dressed Up Day,” which Frank said would feature fashions from “getting out of pajamas to black tie.”

Tuesday was “Sports Day,” with students dressed in their favorite team gear.

Wednesday is “Match Your Background Day,” with students’ clothes matching their surroundings.

Thursday is “Blursday,” with one-color outfitting.

The idea, Frank said, is to wear a shirt matching the color of their background, all blue or all red, for example, students will “make colored squares on our Zoom screens.”

“Friday is the timeless classic, ‘Blue-and-White Cowboy Day,’” Frank told the school board. “So everyone dresses up in their Chimacum swag to show some school spirit.”

With students split up into cohorts due to COVID-19, they don’t have a chance to see all their classmates during the school day. So this year, Frank said students will take photos of themselves on dress-up days and upload them to Flipgrid — a website that helps teachers host video discussions — so they can see their classmates dressed for Spirit Week.