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Viewfinder: Field Day at Fort Lee Middle School
Viewfinder is a weekly photo gallery that takes a look at the community through the camera lens. This week, we have images from Fort Lee Middle School's annual Field Day event.
“Spirit Week” at Fort Lee Middle School wrapped up Friday with the school’s annual “Field Day,” an Olympic-like event pitting homeroom against homeroom and featuring everything from sit-up, running, basketball shooting and football throwing competitions to three-legged races, water balloon tosses and tug-of-wars.
“It’s a range of competitions that goes on for the whole day,” said middle school principal Rosemary Giacomelli. “All the homerooms are in different colors … so when you look up in the stands, you see light blue, dark blue, red, yellow, green, orange, all these colors are sitting in the stands. It’s an amazing, amazing day. It is just so much fun.”
At the end of a full school day of competitions, the seventh grade homeroom winner went up against the eighth grade homeroom winner in a tug-of-war, after which the teachers got into the act, competing in a tug-of-war of their own featuring seventh grade teachers against eighth grade teachers.
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Spirit Week also included “pajama day” on Monday, “college day” on Tuesday, “Fort Lee Day”—during which everyone wore Fort Lee's orange and black school colors—on Wednesday and “Patriotic Day” on Thursday, on which red, white and blue were the colors to wear students were treated to a visit from some Fort Lee veterans.
Photographer John Ford captured these images of Field Day Friday.
