October Happenings at Harris School 

October is typically a busy month at Harris School and this year was no exception. The month began with Fire Prevention Week.

Collingdale Fire Companies #1 and #2 presented a fun and informative fire safety assembly for students in Grades 1 through 5. The students look forward to this assembly every year, and they are always well behaved and attentive.  

This year, students were treated to a walk around a fire truck and were instructed on how the equipment works. Students were shown how different pieces of equipment are operated and techniques that firefighters employ when dealing with a fire or an emergency were demonstrated.  

Harris School is fortunate to have such a committed and skilled group of firefighters, some of whom are former Harris students, come each year to help education our students on fire safety. 

The annual Word Parade was held on October 24th for students in first through fourth grades. The parade is a celebration of words and creativity for our students. The students are given a list of words from their grade level curriculum and are allowed to choose a word to "be" for the parade. The students have to "wear" the word and are encouraged to be creative in creating a costume that represents their word. Their ideas ranged from a hat decorated to represent the word tornado to a student wrapped in cotton to represent clouds. The majority of our students wrote their word on an appropriately decorated t-shirt. 

The parade wound through the building with the older students lining the halls supporting the younger students as they marched. The parade eventually went out of the building so that the parents, families, and neighbors could see the students and how hard they worked on their costumes. Every year the students impress with their interpretations of words and the creativity they display is awesome. The best part of the parade is the support the students receive from the Harris community. 

The last week of October, Harris students and staff celebrated Red Ribbon Week, which is an alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs and violence prevention awareness campaign. Red Ribbon Week is a big event for Harris, with a different clothing theme for each day of the week. Students wore red to celebrate Monday's theme, Our School Has Swag: Students Who Achieve Goals! Tuesday was Friends Don't let Friends Do Drugs and students dressed like twins. Students wore team jerseys for Wednesday's  theme of Team Up Against Drugs. Sweat pants and shirts supported Thursday's Being Drug-Free is No Sweat theme and Friday was Put Down Drugs day and students simply dressed down.  

Red Ribbon Week is organized and led by the Harris Student Council. The student council decorated the building and gave out Red Ribbon Week wristbands to all students.