The march to the field begins after much yelling and chanting and proceeds around Florence and across the playing fields to the football field for the main event. The day begins at 8:30 AM with a boisterous parade in front of the school with the red and blue team lining up in parallel along West Avenue behind the high school band. The team with the highest score wins the right to paint the Liberty Bell replicas in the field the color of their team. Many camps also have silent meals in the dining room. Some are the regular sport activities and some are more unique activities for each camp. The teams compete against each other in many activities. Then on the Friday before Memorial Day, the District holds an Olympics-like contest of endurance and strength with events such as tug-of-war, a relay race, obstacle races, and others for points. They chant cheers and sing songs about their teams throughout the days and nights of color war. If you get into a conversation with an expatriated Jenkintonian, they will likely tell you their color. Yellow Panthers Cheers 1 Stand up, stay proud, yellow team is on the ground Watch out lets score, yellow gonna beat them all So team get up, lets show. For the rest of their lives, they carry that hue. When new students enter kindergarten, the school assigns them a color - almost in Hogwarts fashion. What is Color Day? It’s a curious Jenkintonian ritual that pits students from houses designated blue against those designated as red (the school colors). The Reds finally triumphed in Jenkintown’s 2019 Color Day Contest by a score of 57 to 35.
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