Spirit Week Highs and Lows

​By Bridgett Scott '20

Like every busy week on the close, spirit week has its highs and lows, but the festive
costumes, excitement, and electricity in the air always make it a student favorite. Walking into
Davis Dining Hall each morning, students are greeted with thematic music and quite the display
of costumes representing different interpretation of the vague “relaxed dress code.” Usually, the
risk of breaking dress code is well worth it to sport patriotic America leggings, various swim
wear, everything you own in cheetah print, lower school uniforms, and many other creative
outfits.
Unfortunately, these fifteen-minute dance parties every morning are rudely interrupted by
a regular schedule of classes Monday through Thursday. As students haul off to class they
remember how much more time they spent on their outfit than their homework the night before
leaving them slightly less prepared than usual for their imminent pop quizzes. Luckily, since
Friday is a non-academic day, the week only mandates three nights of homework, or lack
thereof.
After four days of whisperings about the senior theme and anticipation for the big reveal
Friday finally rolls around. The entire day is packed with activities sending grades four through
twelve all around campus in school wide activities. The day starts off with purple and gold team
breakfasts filled with doughnuts, hairspray fumes and questionably hygienic purple and gold
makeup, then paired homerooms embark on a scavenger hunt that prompted students to traverse
Woodley multiple times, climb to the fourth floor of Hearst and even took us to the Bishops
garden. Down at the athletic center purple and gold students face off in games of musical chairs,
which always becomes shockingly violent, dodgeball, water balloon toss, and of course shaving

cream twister. Year after year the worst part of spirit day is putting shoes and socks back on after
a valiant fight on the twister mat.
The best part of the week is Friday afternoon, when the purple and gold teams come
together as a school to enjoy hilarious skits, and marvel in our classmate’s unique talents. To top
it off, the senior video is always flawlessly art directed to include many NCS memories side by
side with powerful movie clips. Many thanks to the electric class of 2018 for another great spirit
week to kick off the school year!