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Harriton Students De-Stress with Wellness Day

On February 28, 2024, Harriton High School students took part in a school-wide Wellness Day. 

Taylor Swift trivia replaced trigonometry. Slime-making replaced science. And creativity replaced calculus, as students painted to a instructional video from Bob Ross and made snow globes with miniature clay figurines inside. 

A band played in the atrium, while board games were being played in the library. Some students crocheted, while others played basketball and lifted weights.

As they engaged in these activities and many more, students laughed and talked and generally decompressed. Both students and staff designed the Wellness Day activities to give students a much-needed break from the day-to-day stress of academic pressures that many feel. 

The event gave students a chance to pursue interests and activities that they often don't have time for, and also the opportunity to develop new skills and interests -- especially skills that didn't require them to be on phones and other devices. 

For photos from Harriton's Wellness Day, you can click through the slideshow below. 

Students sitting around a table turn to smile a the camera
Students in an auditorium watch a movie on a screen
Students at a library table playing board games
Students at tables playing chess
Students in the auditorium watching a baking show
Two students painting
Art room with many students seated at tables with brushes and paint
Students at art tables as Bob Ross video shows on screen
Students paint in the foreground while a teacher holds up paper behind them
Mr. Weinstein and Ms. Graziosi-Hibbs smile for a photo
Students paint at tables while a Bob Ross video  plays on the screen
Classroom doorway with banner that says %22HHS Slime Time Live.%22
View from the upper atrium looking down at the student band
Students make slime at tables, as the words %22Slime Time%22 show on a screen behind them.
Students with their hands in bowls making slime.
A student stretches blue slime over a bowl
Students at tables make slime, as a photographer takes their picture
Students at tables play %22Dutch Blitz%22 card game.
A student works to mold green clay into a dinosaur for a snow globe.
Students at a long table making snow globes
Clay snowman, penguin and Christmas tree to go into a snow globe
Closeup of a clay Snoopy holding a cookie that will go into a snow globe
Students at table play %22Dutch Blitz%22 card game
A student works on a miniature clay Snoopy for inside a snow globe
A student band plays in the Ram Atrium.