HALO Week has wrapped, and the Duncan Middle School winning classes have been determined.
What is HALO Week?
“HALO” stands for Helpful Attitudes Leading Others. HALO Week, which was originally founded as LEGO Week at the Duncan High School, is a week where students can dress up and raise money for certain causes. Although HALO Week is led by the Duncan High School Student Council, the Duncan Middle School Student Council helps by raising money, too.
Drew Wortham’s first hour class was one of two to win doughnuts because of the money raised for HALO Week.
This year, the money is being raised for Douglass and Duncan senior citizen centers, and for Duncan High School student Madison Arrington, who had heart surgery at the end of her junior year. HALO Week 2019 ran from Feb. 25 to March 1.
The Duncan schools raised $10,000 together.
At Duncan Middle School, students were encouraged to bring money to their first hour with the promise that the top earning class would win doughnuts.
Two classes were selected.
Seventh-grade social studies teacher Drew Wortham and physical education teacher Mary Leyrer had the top earning classes for Duncan Middle School.
“I told my kids HALO week was for a good cause and told them what we were raising money for,” Wortham said.
Wortham’s class collected $74 and had its doughnuts delivered Friday. Leyrer’s class collected $116, but it is undecided when the class will get its doughnuts.
“I told my students what the cause was for and how they could make a difference,” Leyrer said.
In addition to first hour classes collecting money for HALO Week, students were also allowed to participate in dress-up days, paying $1 for each day they dressed up. The dress-up days included Movie Character Day, Star Wars Day (In a Galaxy Far, Far Away . . .), Western Wednesday, Animation Day, and HALO Shirt and Spirit Shirt Day.
