Students Rate Homecoming an Overall Success

By Mike Pueschner and Logan Gajewski

The 2010 homecoming week at Newman Catholic High School will be recognized as a memorable experience.  The results of homecoming have been recorded through a school survey, showing what was enjoyable and what wasn’t enjoyable for the students.  The survey consisted of all the students, grades freshman through seniors that were in attendance the day the surveys were handed out.  We asked specific questions of the students and they replied with what they liked best.

The first question was, “What was your favorite dress-up day?”  The students had the choices of board games day, cowboy/cowgirl day, Mass day and tropical day.  The cowboy and tropical days tied with 68 votes each. 

Next we asked, “Did you enjoy the scavenger hunt?”  The student population had 123 votes for yes and 38 votes for no. 

We also asked, “Whose hall decorations were the best?”  The seniors came in with the most votes with 109, 68% of the votes from the school.  The juniors came in second with 24 votes and the freshman and sophomores tied with 15 votes each.

Our next question was, “What was your favorite part of homecoming?”  The student’s options were dress-up days, the scavenger hunt, hall decorating, sporting events, or other events.  Sporting events came away with 83 votes and the scavenger hunt had 42 total votes.

We also asked, “Did you enjoy homecoming week?”  The students had 120 votes for yes, 5 votes for maybe, and 35 votes for no. 

When asked, “What would you change about homecoming?”   Many students wanted to see field games again, and felt that homecoming was boring without them.  Students also wanted to see the music routines during the pep rally this year, as they felt that the pep rally was not as exciting this year.  There were many other things students mentioned; however there was no consensus on any other topic.