by dave | Sep 9, 2014 | Games and Activities, School Spirit
During Spirit week at our school we had a lunchtime activity entitled “Polar Bear Tough Man” we had brave students get in a kiddie’s pool (or if you have a large enough body of water around) full of ice water and the person that stayed in the...
by dave | Sep 9, 2014 | Games and Activities, School Spirit
For our recent Spirit Week events, one of the lunchtime activities we hosted was called Human Bowling. You have two participants per class/homeroom. One of them acts as the bowling ball, the other as the bowler. The bowling ball person is strapped face down with...
by dave | Sep 9, 2014 | Fundraising and Awareness, School Spirit
Have students sell light bulbs ($1.00 each) and hang the light bulbs in the front of your school or in a prominent place (like a cafeteria) in the form of a Christmas tree and donate the money to a local charity. Our Grade 7 Team at Florenceville Middle School...
by dave | Sep 9, 2014 | Fundraising and Awareness, School Spirit
World Vision Canada has a gift catalogue that allows you to purchase farm animals for families in underdeveloped countries. We found their catalogue to be a great way to raise money for this worthy cause. Students don’t want to just give cash, they want to know...
by dave | Sep 9, 2014 | Games and Activities, School Spirit
The students on my leadership team hosted skateboard Olympics during lunch hour last year in the cafeteria. They were a hit! We first had a couple students who were good at tricks demonstrate their stuff. Then we had the silly Olympics for the rest of us. There was...
by dave | Sep 9, 2014 | School Climate
Our cafeteria did not have a lot of colour and the walls were not good for painting murals on. We decided to use the narrow space between the windows instead of large wall parts. Our wood shop made the box frames and students cut 4 x 8 Masonite sheets in half to make...
by dave | Sep 9, 2014 | School Climate
EDSS students ran Whiteout Day to emphasize the effects of a death in the school from a crash involving an impaired driver. 15 students dressed in black had their faces painted white. The students attended all classes and lunch, but did not speak to anyone during the...
by dave | Sep 9, 2014 | School Climate
“Nobody listens to the PA announcements!” is a comment heard in a lot of schools. This may be that the announcements are not interesting or teachers don’t take the time to make the class listen. Take the time to have your announcements posted for...
by dave | Sep 9, 2014 | Fundraising and Awareness, Games and Activities, School Spirit
Sell tickets in advance for a car smash for charity. You can also sell tickets on the day, but with promotion, you will sell more tickets when you sell them in advance on this event. We sold ours for three swings for $2 and auctioned off the chance to be one of the...
by dave | Sep 9, 2014 | Fundraising and Awareness, School Spirit
Collecting cans of food for the Food Bank can become a weak activity as people get tired of collecting the same old thing. Instead, collect boxes of Kraft Dinner and set them up like dominoes on the gym floor. Have a member of the class that brings in the most Kraft...
by dave | Sep 9, 2014 | Games and Activities, School Spirit
Run an old-fashioned spelling bee as a home room competition at lunchtime. Promote it with signs filled with spelling mistakes. Host it by grade level for each day with Friday as the finals for school champ. The words are made known to the audience by placing them on...
by dave | Sep 9, 2014 | Halloween, School Spirit
This is a home room contest for Hallowe’en activities. Get the basic elements of a witch’s costume: hat, hair, nose and cape. Have random teachers dress up on the costume and take their mug shot with a digital camera. Put all of the pictures on one page...
by dave | Sep 9, 2014 | Grad Events, Prom and Formals
A dance is fun because people attend, not because of the DJ or the dress or the food. KCI attempts generate some buzz for our semi-formal by selling tickets in this manner: $1 for the first ticket $2 for the second $3 for the third and so on to $15 Then they stay at...
by dave | Sep 9, 2014 | Fundraising and Awareness, School Spirit
A simple fundraiser is to delay class until the teacher is finished counting the change on his or her desk brought in for a fundraiser. Students put coins on the teacher’s desk (or at a central location) and class cannot begin until all the money is counted and...
by dave | Sep 9, 2014 | School Spirit
Army Day It’s March 4th. (Get it sarge?) Dress in camouflage pants or march your way to class. Have “Guess that K-ration in the Caf” competition. Celebrate the contributions of the Armed Forces. Jenna Albrecht EDSS
by dave | Sep 8, 2014 | Recognition and Awards, School Spirit
Our Student Council endeavors to promote respect and raise school spirit. To accomplish this goal, The EDSS Student Council has developed a new way of recognizing EDSS students who improve their school community. With the gracious support of Administration, Student...
by dave | Sep 7, 2014 | Recognition and Awards
The dollar stores are indispensable allies in the hunt for teacher appreciation ideas. We buy our staff two gifts a year that we try to keep in the $5 or under range. Coffee mugs, plastic apples, portfolios, pens have been our recent purchases and we do one at either...
by dave | Sep 7, 2014 | Fundraising and Awareness
The idea of using a “thon” to raise funds is anything but new. What may be unique is the number of activities included in this “thon” and that the funds raised directly help the student who participates. Many “thons” focus on one activity for participation. The...
by dave | Sep 7, 2014 | Community Support, Fundraising and Awareness
Reinventing or revisiting ideas often make an idea seem new when, in fact, variations of the idea are everywhere. The key to fundraising or charity drives is to do something novel, to tie it into something your students feel pride and to have some hook that the school...
by dave | Sep 7, 2014 | Recognition and Awards
Over the years, our school has held various end-of-year Student Activity awards assemblies; although many of these events have been “very nice”, they were not necessarily entirely successful at capturing the essence of the spirit of our school. As well,...
by dave | Aug 28, 2014 | Recognition and Awards, School Climate
Selwyn House School is in Montreal and has a uniform. It is difficult to recognize students and staff with a spirit shirt, so we use “Golden Moments”. These are a pair of very nice socks that can be worn with the uniform. Golden Moments are done once a...
by dave | Aug 24, 2014 | School Spirit
We got two male and two female teachers to agree to let us dye their hair for the cause. We had each teacher pick four colours, and have placed boxes in front of their pictures in those colours. Students vote with their change as to what colour the hair should be. The...
by dave | Aug 23, 2014 | Fundraising and Awareness
Showcase the variety of services and recreational opportunities within your community by running a Community Awareness Night. This can be run in February or in September when the amateur sports groups and local groups can make people aware of their programs. The...
by dave | Aug 22, 2014 | Recognition and Awards, School Climate
The student council at EDSS hosts an annual breakfast reception for all honour roll students. This event is held just after the first report card of first semester. It is an attempt to congratulate our academic students. A small gift is given to each member of the...
by Kim Wallace | Apr 4, 2014 | Games and Activities
Have the group in charge line the gym walls with sheet of roll paper, so all walls in the dance area are covered. Tell students to wear old clothes (white t-shirts, old blue jeans work best), and the admission to the dance can consist of money and a marker. Their...
by Kim Wallace | Apr 4, 2014 | Fundraising and Awareness, Valentines
The idea, Crush Grams, revolves around a can of Crush pop (soda) – it comes in orange, grape and strawberry flavors. You can have this fundraiser during the days preceding Valentine’s Day in February, or Sweetest Day in October. What you do is have people...
by Kim Wallace | Apr 4, 2014 | Games and Activities, Halloween
What do Monsters eat at Hallowe’en? The eat Monster hash at the Monster Mash! Create a little monster hash for your monsters to eat. Masks are then provided to dress up your monsters and they must eat the hash through the mask! It’s a ghoulish mess!
by Kim Wallace | Apr 4, 2014 | Games and Activities
As you all know, Christmas is right around the corner. We’re already planning things out here at Holy Cross. I thought maybe I’d share some of our plans, in the hopes that you all could try these at your schools, and maybe even contribute some of your...
by Kim Wallace | Apr 4, 2014 | School Spirit
Our school has adopted a yearlong spirit raising activity, called Orange Madness. (Orange & White are our schools colours) One of the most successful aspects of this campaign is the Oranged Out Fan Award. At half time (or its equivalent) of each home game, a...
by Kim Wallace | Apr 4, 2014 | Games and Activities
Every Friday, our student’s council has a lunchtime activity. Everyone has come to know these activities as “T.G.I.F’s” (thank god it’s Friday activities). They are all very successful and I do suggest you try some… they are all easy and...
by Kim Wallace | Apr 4, 2014 | Fundraising and Awareness, Games and Activities, School Spirit
Our principal and the two VP’s agreed to don full goalie equipment and stand in nets to face the students’ best shots for our United Way charity drive. It was three shots for a buck and you could blast away at one, or take one shot per administrator. The...
by Kim Wallace | Apr 4, 2014 | Games and Activities, School Spirit
The objective of this event is to make a tower of sugar cubes higher than all of the competitors. Team or single competitors are allowed to enter and there is no licking of the cubes to make them sticky. Cubes are provided and it’s harder than it looks. You can...
by Kim Wallace | Apr 4, 2014 | Games and Activities, School Spirit
This is an awesome rally-style event for every single person in your school. The school is broken up into four groups they are, red, blue, yellow and green Every home room is given one of theses colors. Captains select people to participate on their teams from ALL...
by Kim Wallace | Apr 4, 2014 | Fundraising and Awareness
One night every quarter or semester our school puts on a “talent show” presenting plays they’ve worked on, or musical acts etc. At intermission all the attendants go to a Dessert Auction where they can purchase a dessert item that was donated...
by Kim Wallace | Apr 4, 2014 | School Spirit
Our school colours are green and white, and we wanted to pump it up for a spirit day where everyone would wear green. We played the music of Green Day (the band) in the caf at lunch and between classes as promotion prior to the day. We had comments with the music...
by Kim Wallace | Apr 4, 2014 | Fundraising and Awareness
This year our class held a fundraising project for the Leukemia Foundation. We asked about 12 male teachers with beards to shave their facial hair off for charity, and asked what price they would like to pay for their beards. The range of beard prices was from about...
by Kim Wallace | Apr 3, 2014 | Recognition and Awards
Teacher recognition gifts are a great way for your council to thank the staff for their hard work. You don’t need to spend a lot of money to get the result you want. We gave our teachers a Lipton Cup o’ Soup in their mailboxes with a note that said we had...
by Kim Wallace | Apr 3, 2014 | Games and Activities, School Spirit
First of all thank you to all who contributed their ideas. We’re planning on using them in our school. A fun game to play is the scuba game. You get a par of flippers a pair of goggles and a snorkel and make the best football player (or whatever season it is)...
by Kim Wallace | Apr 3, 2014 | School Spirit
During Salad Spirit Week, each dress-up day was named for a salad dressing. Monday = Ranch Day, so people wore cowboy/western clothes; Tuesday = Thousand Islands, so people wore beach/tropical attire; Wednesday = Caesar, so people wore togas (in accordance with school...
by Kim Wallace | Apr 3, 2014 | School Spirit
We decided, near the beginning of the year, to have a spirit week. The activities (by day) were: Day 1: School colours day – people dressed in our school colours (burgundy and white) and got a tootsie pop for participating. Day 2: Karaoke – we got a...
by Kim Wallace | Apr 3, 2014 | Random Acts of Kindness, Recognition and Awards
One of the hardest things to do is to convince your activity group that they have done a good job of running many events. You seem to need a laundry list of activities in the middle of their year to convince them that they have made an impact on the school. Visitors...
by Kim Wallace | Apr 3, 2014 | Random Acts of Kindness, Recognition and Awards
For our staff appreciation activity we decided to take the party to the staff. Several students put together small loot bags with treats and goodies to be presented to each staff member. They included pencils, care bears with “you care about students” messages, etc....
by Kim Wallace | Apr 3, 2014 | Random Acts of Kindness, School Spirit
Our town’s mural project was adapted from the information at www.muralmosaic.com We enlisted the help of a local artist and former student along with a grade 12 student looking for a special project credit. My practical arts students helped with much of the labor and...
by Kim Wallace | Apr 3, 2014 | School Spirit
Each grade dresses up as a holiday that nobody ever really takes notice of… Examples: Labour Day -> people dress up as doctors, firemen, police etc. Arbor Day -> people dress up in green/leafy outfits Canada Day -> show your patriotism (red/white/maple...
by Kim Wallace | Apr 3, 2014 | School Climate, School Spirit, Special Days
Yes, those eggs are GREEN, Sam-I-Am! The good Doctor’s birthday is March 2. Our school decided that we should recognize this literary giant by serving green eggs and ham in the cafeteria for lunch. Now, to make green eggs, we learned that you don’t use...
by Kim Wallace | Apr 3, 2014 | Random Acts of Kindness
For the duration of one week, students are asked and encouraged to perform Random Acts of Senseless Kindness. This can range from helping a friend, or volunteering to help a teacher. During the week, Warm Fuzzies are sold (puff balls with feet, googlie eyes) and these...
by Kim Wallace | Apr 3, 2014 | School Spirit, Special Days
Each Tuesday Student Council and Leadership search the cafeteria for students eating their lunches in an environmentally sound package. It could be a reusable lunch bag, a thermos, or the ever-popular Tupperware. Any student (or teacher for that matter) whose lunch is...
by Kim Wallace | Apr 3, 2014 | School Climate, School Spirit
Hunting Hills High School in Red Deer, Alberta, picks a theme for their leadership team each year. They crest this on their leadership t-shirts and use it as the theme for their retreat. At the end of the year, the group paints the theme on a ceiling tile and places...
by Kim Wallace | Apr 3, 2014 | Community Support, Prom and Formals, Random Acts of Kindness, School Climate
The day before prom a group of students dressed up in our prom attire and went to an adult day-care to bring happiness to the elderly and mentally disabled. We brought our prom posters and balloons and we danced with the ones that could dance. They told us stories of...
by Kim Wallace | Apr 3, 2014 | School Spirit
INCREASE SCHOOL SPIRIT AND RALLY PARTICIPATION This year we started a year long competition at Lassen High School which includes spirit points earned throughout each quarter and awards, cash and spirit Bells at the end of each quarter. The first Awards Rally was a...
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