Spirit Day Committee

Spirit Day Committee

Being part of the spirit day committee, we all had many roles to fulfill for our leadership impact project. Our job as a group was to create and advertise new spirit days around the school. We wanted to incorporate the student voice in what they wanted to dress up as, so we placed posters around the school allowing the student body to vote on their favorite spirit day ideas. From there, we began to advertise and spread the word to increase school spirit at GBN.

Anticipated Outcomes/Goals

• Get students to come together as a community and dress up to cultivate school spirit.
• Increase spirited Students+Staff, more participation to assemblies
• School spirit will carry over throughout grades
• Monthly spirit days will become a tradition at GBN

Plan

• Once/twice a month, we will plan and advertise a new spirit day.
• Unique ideas (not like the homecoming dress up days or green and gold)
• Have students vote by tally on paper with pre-decided ideas to get popular vote
• Hang in SAC and blocks to target both upper and underclassmen.
• Compare the number of students dressed up each month
• measure the increase in dress-ups by pictures
• Use late arrival days for dress up dates
• Have “most spirited spartan” posters displayed in SAC
• What if no one votes? Crisis Plan:
• We vote and choose a winner & amp up our advertising until students get involved
• Contact SA board to get involved and spread the word about upcoming dress up days
• Twitter, facebook and other social media to get the word out
• Make posters to advertise, use the announcements to inform students/teachers

Day to day plan:

11/24: Day before spirit day 1; Create more posters to hang in the SAC so students can vote again for spirit day 2 & hang and work on most spirited spartan prizes

• Finalize Twitter page(GBN updates) to tweet most spirited spartans
• Made another announcement to promote tweeting pictures to @gbnupdates

11/25:

• Spirit day 1

12/1:

• See spirit day posters
• POSTER FOR MOST SPIRITED!!!  DISPLAY IN THE SAC 
• Facebook/twitter to spread the word
• Wrote letter to Staff
• Look into the game before break as possibility instead of the January game

12/9:

• No work time, t-shirts should be here, Spirit day 2

12/11:

• Consolidate photographs for video into one file
  
  

12/15:

• Begin ordering photos in video, work on blog

12/17:

• Finish video, add music

12/19:

• Work on Video reflection due
• Boys Basketball Game vs. Deerfield- home, wear Pryma shirts

As a group, we worked efficiently to complete the tasks we were assigned. Our posters and social media spread the word about the upcoming spirit days, along with the announcements in the morning. We learned that keeping the students informed was the biggest challenge, but also the most rewarding. Through lots of hard work and planning, we created new spirit days that the students dressed up for and enjoyed.