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Fall Spirit Week Day 2: Campus lights up with class colors

Sophomore Eva Petrova explains choreography to history teacher Jonathan Rim during a rehearsal. Classes ramped up lip sync rehearsals in the days leading up to fall rally.
Sophomore Eva Petrova explains choreography to history teacher Jonathan Rim during a rehearsal. Classes ramped up lip sync rehearsals in the days leading up to fall rally.
Chelsea Xie
Seniors Minal Jalil and Janam Chahal hold up a green poster while decked out in the senior class color. Fall Spirit Week will continue on Wednesday with a wilderness-themed dress-up and a series of  “Minute to Win It” games during lunch.

Students donned color-coordinated outfits to show off their class pride for the second day of Fall Spirit Week on Tuesday. 

Frosh, sophomores, juniors and seniors transformed the campus into a sea of white, black, yellow and green. To earn spirit points, students had to include at least one correctly colored element in their outfit and accessories that ranged from hats, beaded necklaces and sunglasses to face paint, capes, and tutus.

Seniors Minal Jalil and Janam Chahal hold up a green poster while decked out in the senior class color. Fall Spirit Week will continue on Wednesday with a wilderness-themed dress-up and a series of “Minute to Win It” games during lunch. (Lily Shi)

Some colors are more common in wardrobes than others, making dress-up a greater challenge for certain classes. Junior Jessica Skylar Chen explained the difficulties the juniors  face when dressing up for class color day.

“Class of 2027 has the most difficult color because not a lot of people have highlighter yellow things in their wardrobe,” Jessica said. “It’s really difficult for our class to turn up, but this year we’re really going up and above, and it’s something that I’m really proud of. I love seeing people get more and more spirited as the years go by and develop that kind of class spirit.”

Some students dressed head to toe in their class colors, while others sported costumes like a yellow teletubby to showcase their spirit. Frosh Margot Grignou highlights how students engage more enthusiastically with spirit events at the upper school compared to the middle school.

“At the high school, people are way more into spirit,” Margot said. “Mainly the sophomores, juniors and seniors because I remember at middle school, only half the grade would ever do Spirit as a big group.”

Margot Grignou (9), Megha Unny (11) and Brady Tse (12) check in students dressed in their class colors. Today’s Spirit Week theme, class colors, featured freshmen in white, sophomores in black, juniors in yellow and seniors in green.

Tuesday’s activities originally included the annual advisory parade, tug-of-war finals between the seniors and juniors and loser bracket’s finals between sophomores and frosh. Due to predicted rain in weather forecasts, HSLT rescheduled the parade to Thursday before the Spirit Rally and moved the tug-of-war to Friday during the varsity football game against Pinewood School.

Junior tug-of-war participant Andrew Shin remarked on how the scheduling change will allow Fall Spirit Week to run more smoothly and looks forward to capping off the week at the football game. 

“Moving the parade to Thursday and tug-of-war to the tailgate game was a good idea and necessary change because of unexpected conditions around these events,” Andrew said. “Having the events on these two days is able to more effectively capture all of the magic and the essence and the effort, and everything that goes into making these two events really special.” 

Fall Spirit Week will continue on Wednesday with a wilderness-themed dress-up and a series of  “Minute to Win It” games during lunch.

Margot Grignou (9), Megha Unny (11) and Brady Tse (12) check in students dressed in their class colors. Today’s Spirit Week theme, class colors, featured freshmen in white, sophomores in black, juniors in yellow and seniors in green. (Aahana Sharma)
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