Thursday, September 13, 2018

Class of 2023 -- Blog #3 THE TRADITION OF GCS HOMECOMING

There are many traditions at Goodpasture Christian School, and none is more loved that Homecoming.  Homecoming is a special time at Goodpasture.  It is a time when former students, teachers and families come back on campus to enjoy a great football game with our current students, teachers and families.  For most students and families, Goodpasture plays a central role in their lives throughout elementary, middle and high school.  The relationships cultivated during that time often last for a lifetime.  Everyone seems to enjoy coming back to the Goodpasture campus for an evening of fun, fellowship and football.


The ceremony of the Homecoming parade and pep rally sets the stage on Friday afternoon, for the exciting events of the evening.


 Of course, no Goodpasture Homecoming would be complete without high school floats and upper middle school cart floats.  Students, parents and teachers spend a great deal of time on creating these beautiful masterpieces, united by a common theme for the year.


The crowning of the beautiful, homecoming queen and her court is a special tradition of the evening, as well.  Finally, hopes are always high that the football team will end the evening with a huge victory over the rival team!

What does “homecoming” mean to you?  Are you excited about our Homecoming this year?  Why, or why not?  Do you think that homecoming will be come more special to you in the years to come?  Why, or why not?

Please respond in four (4) complete sentences for four (4) extra credit points.  This blog will be open until Friday, 9/21 at midnight. Write on!

17 comments:

  1. Isaac
    Homecoming to me is more of a high school thing than a middle school thing. It can still be enjoyable though. I think homecoming will be fun this year because we get to create floats. I believe homecoming will become more fun and special in high school because of homecoming king & queen and other fun stuff that we’ll get to do.

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  2. Homecoming is where a school gets together and watch a specific sport. Mainly football, and it is supposed to be an easy game to enjoy. People build floats and have parades and it is always fun for a lot of people.

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  3. Homecoming to me is when the entire school participates in different activities to bring together a night that represents our school. I am very excited about homecoming this year because I get to help with the eighth grade floats, sophomore floats, and the junior floats. I think homecoming will become more special in high school because we will get the chance to do our own floats instead of shopping cart floats. We also will have the chance to be on homecoming court and/or be in the parade.

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  4. Homecoming is when the entire school participates in activities to get ready for a football game. I am very excited about homecoming this year. I get so excited for the pep rally and the parade. I do think that homecoming will become more important in years to come as we will be participating in our own floats instead of shopping carts. We will have a lot more responsibility and could be able to be in the parade if desired.

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  5. Homecoming to me is when the whole school participates in lots of fun activitivites to prepare for a football game. I am excited for homecoming this year. I definitly think it will be more important in the years to come. We will get to make our own floats, have the opportunity to be in the parade, and have the chance to be on the homecoming court.

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  6. Homecoming is a time where we represent our school with a king and queen. I am really excited for Homecoming because I get to hang out with my friends at the game. Homecoming will become more special to me because when I get in high school, those will be my last years celebrating it.

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  7. Homecoming is a time when The Whole school gets together to be exited. We have homecoming king and queen And they represent our school for homecoming. My favorite part of homecoming is the floats I like to see how creative we all are and what we’ve mad to symbolize our school.

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  8. Homecoming to me is when the whole school gets together to participate in activities and get ready for the football game. I am excited about homecoming this year because we get to do floats and I love going to the football game. I think homecoming will be more special to me because we get to do big floats instead of shopping cart floats.

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  9. Homecoming to me is where the whole school gather together and celebrate. I am excited for Homecoming and the football game. We get to see who will win the carts. We get to hang out with our friends and family. We also get to see who will become homecoming queen and king !!

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  10. Homecoming is a time for our school to get together and have fun. I like homecoming because I get to be with my friends and work on floats. During homecoming we work on floats for the homecoming parade. In highschool we have a homecoming queen and king.

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  11. Homecoming means an excitement game and a way to have fun in our school. I am so excited for this homecoming. I am excited because because I have more information to what is going on. I think it is more special to me. I think that because I am helping so much more for our 8th grade cart then last year.

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  12. This is the first year I have been at Goodpasture and I already love floats and spending time doing it. We have a parade for floats. This is all taking place on homecoming week. We show our float during half time of the game.

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  14. To me, Homecoming means traditions. It is a time to hang out with friends and create floats. We get to come together for a parade and a big game. It is a fun time, and I am excited to work on the bigger floats when we are sophomores.

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  15. To me homecoming is a cool time. You get to be with friends and help with the floats. We go to see the parade of floats then go watch the game. The homecoming is super fun and the floats look really good to.

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  16. Homecoming to me is the tradition of being coming together as a class and making a shopping cart or a float. On that Friday tho it is very hectic because you have the parade and the pep rally. This year I was in the pep rally , and it was so fun. Friday night we had the homecoming ceremony and the game. They goodpasture cougars lost.

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  17. Homecoming was great! Thanks for all the responses! This blog is now closed!

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