Northeast Junior High School - Buccaneer Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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jgjifxq- W E . . . . s Home Room The school day begins with a twenty-minute period during which every pupil is given the opportunity to take part in Home Room activities. This is an informal period in which pupils and teachers co-operate in working out school projects, room activities, and personal problems. Pupils are assigned to Home Rooms alphabetically--thirty-five to forty in a room. Boys and girls from both seventh grade and freshman classes are thus thrown together in a democratic group. The Home Room plan in the Northeast junior High offers an ideal condition for the development of leadership of the kind that is needed in the life of any community. Some of the Home Room activities in our school during this year are listed below: l. Most school announcements are sent around by the office during Home Room period. 2. Record of attendance is kept. and a report made daily to the office. 3. Sale and distribution of the Buccaneer, Hi-Lite. athletic tickets. junior jubilee tickets, Spring Festival tickets, collection for junior Red Cross, paper drives, and similar school projects. 4. Home Room period on Tuesday of each week is used for banking, which is conducted by student cashiers. During the year our school led the junior and senior high schools most of the time in banking. 5. Grganization of assembly hall seating, of lunch room grouping, and dis- cussion of questions relative to proper conduct in school assembly and cafeteria. 6. Practice and improvement in parliamentary procedure. 7. Promotions of questions of public safety, such as the pledge supported in all Home Rooms relative to hopping cars. S. Annual enrollment of sophomores is conducted through the Home Room. 9. Salute to the flag and the American Creed are learned and practiced. 10. Songs and yells are demonstrated and learned. ll. Student Council organization is 1nade up of representatives from Home Rooms. 12. Debates are carried on occasionally between Home Rooms. Entertain- ments are given by one Home Room to another. Assembly I-lall programs are discussed, suggested, or worked up. 13. Grades, reasons for failures, and honor roll requirements are studied. In a number of Home Rooms. systems of recognition of conduct, scholarship. achievement, and leadership through credits or points have been worked out and used in stimulating higher ideals and ambitions along these lines. It has been the experience of most Home Room teachers and pupil leaders that twenty minutes is not a sufficiently long period for the numerous activities that clamor for expres- sion. Taking into consideration the value of Home Room peroid to the organiza- tion of the school and to the individual pupils, it is not surprising that in a great many junior high schools over the country, this is a period regarded as the most valuable of the entire school program. S DS EXQV .- - Exghtv eight

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lEli'isf we q f - ey - gl Home Room Contests V' Below are listed some of the various contests and records established by Home Rooms throughout the year: 1'Ii-l.ite Subscriptions-Contest to see which Home Room would reach the 100 per cent mark first. Wfinner given Hi-Lite brice of 25C per year per sub- scription. lst -305 2nd--203 3rd-317 Buccaneer Panel Pictures-Contest to determine which Home Room would have highest percentage of sales. XVinner to have one page in Buccaneer devoted to itiexclnsively. 1 st -106 2nd-203 3rd-107 4th-321 Junior Red Cross--Contest for highest percentage of gifts. lst -204 305 had largest amount of money. Athletic Tickets-Contest for greatest number of sales of season tickets. Wfinner to get cake. 1st -207 2nd-301 Paper and Magazine Drive-Contest on highest poundage brought in by Home Rooms. First prize of 355, second of 553, third of Sl. Money from drive to be used for library. ' lst -201 2nd-207 3rd-321 4th-208 Buccaneer Suliscriptions-Contest to determine highest percentage of sales. Wfinner to receive one page in Buccaneer for exclusive use. 1st -106 2nd-305 31-fi-204 Parent-'1'eacher Membership-Contest to determine the first 100 per cent room. Prize to be a large cake for 'first and a box of candy for second. lst -305 Znd-314 3rd-208 . lianking-Out of weeks of School Savings, the following Home Rooms have ranked highest in per cent of pupils depositing: Room Times 10072 Times 90-9975 305 ' 27 3 212 23 6 ' 208 23 3 210 Z2 3 316 18 2 l lzeezi 411 4beAE.1:1fwx5N EF 5515? dxigrqgl Eighty-nine