Centennial School/Elementary School/Primary Center - Homecoming Spirit Week (#bethekindkid Day")
- What
- Centennial School/Elementary School/Primary Center - Homecoming Spirit Week (#bethekindkid Day")
- When
- 10/9/2024
- Where
- Mars Area Centennial School | Mars Area Elementary School | Mars Area Primary Center
Mars Area School District will hold its 2024 Homecoming Celebration, Monday, Oct. 7, through Saturday, Oct. 12.
This year’s theme is “On Cloud 9.” The District’s schools will hold the following Spirit Week theme days:
- Monday, Oct 7 — “PJ Day” — Comfy clothes or pajamas
- Tuesday, Oct. 8 —
- High School — “Nursery vs. Nursing Home” — Students may dress like a baby or an elderly person
- Grades K-8 — “Sports Team /Jersey Day” — Sports apparel
- Wednesday, Oct. 9 —
- High School — “Pink Day” — Pink colors
- Middle School — “Movie Day” — Movie-themed apparel
- Grades K-6 — “#bethekindkid Day”
- Thursday, Oct. 10 —
- High School & Grades K-6 — “Holidays Day” — Apparel associated with any holiday
- Middle School — “Class Color Day” — Seventh-graders wear black and eighth-graders wear red
- Friday, Oct. 11 — “Mars Day” — Blue and gold colors
The 2024 Homecoming Parade will be held at 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 11, in Downtown Mars, followed by the Fightin’ Planets Homecoming Football Game against the McKeesport Area Tigers at 7 p.m. at Mars Athletic Complex. The Homecoming Queen will be crowned at halftime.
The week will conclude with Mars Area High School’s 2024 Homecoming Dance, to be held from 7 to 10 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 12, at Mars Area Middle School. The Homecoming King will be crowned during the dance.
Dance tickets are $20 per student and may be purchased, Monday, Sept. 30, through Friday, Oct. 11, at the Student Council booth at Mars Area High School. A completed Homecoming Ticket Order Form (to be posted at www.marsk12.org) and payment is due at the time of ticket purchase. Checks may be made payable to “Mars High Activity Fund.”
Attendance at the dance is limited to those ages 14-20 and in ninth grade and above. For more information, call (724) 625-1581.