The weekend events started with a family picnic Friday night.
By
Jessica Salmond
| 4:10 p.m. October 16, 2015
East County
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The Out-of-Door Academy launched its weekend homecoming events with a family picnic Friday night.
Throughout the week, the school held special events each day. Students and parents gathered at the school to spend time with friends, eat and play games at the picnic Friday, which was held for both the Upper and Lower schools.
"They didn't have homecoming at my old school — it's so fun," said Courtney Angileri, a freshman who moved to the area from New York this year.
In addition to the picnic, the school played Carrollwood Day School in football Friday night.. Saturday night is the homecoming dance.
"I love this week," said freshman Celia Miller. "In middle school, you don't get to do all the activities."
Alexa Gettel, third-grader, gets some air in the bounce house.
Seventh-graders Brianna Baldinger, Lara Felsmann, Maeve Studdiford, Heather Squitieri and Elizabeth Karp Hauser
Charlie Hugill goes down the inflated slide.
Dawn Jordan, a caterer with Lee Roy Selmon's, serves up dinner to Tai Gilbert, freshman.
Elle LaClaire buys TCBY Frozen Yogurt from Hayley Latta. The eighth-graders got 20% of the profits from yogurt sales to raise money to take the grade to Washington D.C. for the annual field trip.
Chester Flake with his two sons, Jacob, left, and Ethnan, right.
Seventh-grader Michael Dyer throws the ball to friends at the family picnic.
Nicole Birmingham, a Country Club resident, with Cathy Hancock, her mother-in-law from Tampa
Patty Erwin with Pixie Painting finishes the rainbow design on Mia Proctor's face, while her younger sister Olivia watches.
First-graders Phillip Spilka and Hayne Falck race down the slide.
Renne Pitts, Paul Lebras and Martha Duffy, teachers at the Upper and Lower Schools, help direct traffic.
