![]() Junior Lila McCord said she is “looking forward to Monday because to wear pajamas.” She said it “will be nice to just get up and go to school.” Many students are looking forward to homecoming this year. The Hoco Walls will be posted in the upper school office until Friday, so students have a week to sign up! Everyone is welcome and encouraged to come! People can sign up with a date or as a group, and it is stressed that students do not need a date to attend the dance. Instead of date walls, SLB is making Hoco Walls this year. SLB will also be raffling off door prizes at the dance with fun prizes such as a “Get Out of Demerit Free Card.” The theme is “A Night in the Emerald City.” There will be a “DJ, glow sticks, and a good time,” according to SLB advisors Ms. ![]() This year, SLB is excited to be bringing back the homecoming dance! It will be held on Saturday, September 21 at Idle Hour Country Club from 8 to 10 p.m. Each day there will also be a costume contest. Whichever grade “wins” homecoming will get a dress down day and donuts in homeroom! Students can get points for their grade by winning break activities, dressing up each day, and winning Powder Puff. This year, SLB is doing grade-level competitions for the whole week of homecoming. We have the 2019 Stratford Hall of Fame assembly on Friday, so there will be no break activity, but we will announce the winning class of homecoming during lunch! Upperclassmen (Juniors and Seniors) will dress as babies, and underclassmen (freshmen and sophomores) can dress up as the elderly. Nursing Home, ” which will be a class competition day. We will be playing a game of ships and sailors in the Grady during break.įriday is “Nursery vs. Thursday’s theme is “Far from Home, ” and students dress up as “anything but human!” From aliens to dogs, cardboard boxes to robots, you can dress as literally anything but a human. The break activity will be movie trivia in the Prentice Robinson Cafeteria. Wednesday’s theme is “Home -theater.” Students can dress up as their favorite movie or tv show character. There will be the annual tag competition and a free throw competition in the Grady during break. Home -Schooled,” and students can dress up as either a “Mathlete” or an “Athlete”. There will be no break activity due to Monday morning assembly. Monday’s theme is “Home -Body,” and students can wear PJs. Students not dressed up as the theme need to be in uniform. The overall theme for homecoming this year is “There’s No Place like Home-coming !” Each day students will be allowed to dress up-appropriately -as the theme of the day. And Stratford students will be in for a treat next week after the Student Leadership Board announced the homecoming themes at Monday morning’s assembly. That’s what Dorothy told us in “The Wizard of Oz.”īut there’s no place like homecoming, either. It must be admitted, however, that I very much appreciated the opportunity to show off the knee-high argyle socks my mother bought me for Christmas.SLB members represented every day’s theme at this week’s Monday morning assembly. Pushing their oversized glasses back atop their sweaty noses and adjusting their suspenders, they mounted a firm challenge to the common assumption that nerds have no rhythm and only enjoy dancing alone in their rooms to Wham!Īt the end of the night, it was unclear which caricature of an already absurdly hackneyed stereotype had triumphed-it was even unclear to this reporter if the majority of students in attendance were aware that there was a contest going on, as I witnessed a great number of my fellow mathletes carousing, quite openly, with athletes. While the Athletes, clad mostly in basketball shorts, ill-fitting jerseys, and spandex, put up a strong showing of vigorous, athletic dancing to a selection of pop songs with a confrontational vibe (DJ Khaled’s complex lyrical composition “All I Do Is Win,” for example), the Mathletes’ efforts were not to be sneezed at-despite their allergies to almost everything. Athletes Dance was the first of its kind in Founders dance history, rumored, to the disgruntlement of some of the more nostalgic students, to have replaced the ’90s dance. Sponsored by SECS, this year’s Mathletes Vs. until 2:00 a.m., dozens of Fords passed through Founders Great Hall in various states of costume, each carefully groomed to indicate their allegiance to one side of an age-old rivalry: Mathlete vs. On Saturday, February 19, from approximately 10:00 p.m.
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