The schedule for the 2024-2025 school year was rearranged so that iPeriod, a time period where students can explore their interests in non-school related topics, was moved to Wednesdays, moving club period to Thursdays. A main complaint was that students did not like having to wear their chapel day clothes to do activities, such as wiffle ball and disc golf. Nature Nuts is another iPeriod where students’ clothes would get dirty because of outdoor activities. Also, in iPeriods such as Speed and Agility and Weightlifting, students had to change out of their chapel dress and into workout clothes before and after class. With only a 50 minute time slot, this would take away time from which they could be doing their iPeriod.
Mr. Woods thinks switching the iPeriod and Club Period days will be beneficial for the students who have to wear their chapel clothes during active iPeriods. Head of Upper School, Chad Woods, and students Timmy King and Eli Cheng give their thoughts on the benefits and possible downsides of this change.
“The benefit from the club standpoint really wasn’t the consideration, it was more for the iPeriod, to move from Thursday to Wednesday,” Said Woods. “It was for the more active iPeriods that go outside like wiffle ball and disc golf, things people didn’t want to do in their chapel dress.”
Senior Timmy King says what the benefits are of having iPeriod moved to Wednesday.
“I don’t have to do active iPeriods in my chapel clothes, so I won’t get my nice chapel clothes dirty if my iPeriod is outside,” King said. Since he is in the wiffle ball iPeriod, he likes that he will not have to play in his chapel day dress.
As a member of the Green Team and the Asian Student Union, sophomore Eli Cheng gives his thoughts from the club change perspective.
“I like having the chapel dress on club days because it looks more formal. Also, I noticed a lot more people showing up for clubs this year.”
Along with the benefits of having the iPeriod and club period switched, come some challenges. Woods shares on what he thinks will be a challenge for students who are used to the schedule from previous years.
“The biggest thing [challenge] is the routine, the students that have been here who are used to having clubs on Wednesdays, so at the beginning of the year it would be easy to miss those iPeriod times and club times. “