North Street School Spirit and Holiday Assembly: Good Cheer All Around

It was a day of celebrating both new and old traditions at North Street School as all the students and staff gathered in the gymnasium for their monthly Spirit Celebration and Annual Holiday Sing-Along.

The Spirit Assemblies started in the 2021-22 school year as a way to celebrate hardworking students who exemplify the district norms of the Greenwich Public Schools – “Be Here, Be Safe, Be Honest, Care For Self and Others, Let Go and Move On.” Along with the assemblies, the school created an Ambassadors Program that allowed 4th and 5th grade students to serve in certain leadership roles within the school. Each week, students can earn Dragons Roar stickers for demonstrating one of the norms and at the monthly assembly, selected students get to walk down a red carpet while being applauded.

According to North Street School principal Jill Flood, “It’s a wonderful way for the students to get to cheer on their classmates and share in the joy of their hard work throughout the month.”

In December, the focus was on “Care For Self and Others” as the entire school read the book Those Shoes and explored the themes of kindness, generosity and paying it forward. All the students were asked to write about acts of kindness they did or received and each day during morning announcements, the children shared some over the loudspeaker.

The month culminated in Friday’s Spirit Assembly where students walked the red carpet and members of the 5th Grade Ambassadors program wrote, directed and performed in skits that highlighted the norm and explained to their peers and younger classmates about the value of
kindness.

Jessica McEvily, the school’s Assistant Principal, said that she loves the program because not only does it teach leadership skills to the school’s young learners, but it allows for the 5th graders to share their creativity in writing and performing in front of their peers.

To cap off the special morning and to celebrate the upcoming break, the entire school community joined in a joyous holiday sing-along – an annual tradition at North Street that dates all the way back to the 1980s!