It must be October. Everywhere you turn, you see the word spirit. Local High Schools are celebrating Homecoming and hosting spirit days, Spirit Halloween has taken up residence in retailers everywhere and here at Quest, we devote an entire week to the word. For our school, Spirit Week is four “themed” days, culminating with an admissions Open House and Fall Festival. What sets Quest apart from other school spirit events is quite simple. Here, the students run the show.
This year, our eldest students went a step beyond the different daily themes, working hard to create experiences that would elevate our commitment to establishing bonds between different classrooms. They revived the “Questaraunt,” to serve breakfast to our Elementary students, read stories to our Primary classrooms and led the school in a color parade. On Friday, they created a “day of positivity” by leaving surprise messages of inspiration on student’s lockers and staff desks and then served as group leaders on our field trip to Clark Farm, where the students traipsed through a corn maze, raced each other on the zip-line, careened down the slide and shot corn out of a cannon.
Becoming a Quest Middle Schooler means a lot: a different classroom, different teachers, and different, often long-awaited, responsibilities. Quest kids know that Middle School organizes and leads Spirit Week, and they look forward to “earning their turn” for years. For several weeks, our intrepid seventh and eighth graders met with the administration and teaching staff to map out their different ideas for a week designed to “pump up” their peers, and to create an exciting, fun-filled Fall Festival showcasing our school. All the planning and preparation paid off, Spirit Week 2018 was a great success.
