Accomplishments: 

• The Club bought 14 recycling tubs, one for each classroom, and started the recycling program in earnest. A schedule for recycling was set up, with volunteer classes and the Global Club alternating the recycling sorting and bucket cleaning every second week. 

• Collected and sent 60 pairs of used eye glasses to needing eyes via Canadian Federation for World Development

• Created a bulletin board at front of school with school’s last year service projects

• Created and distributed a list of global days to all staff

• For World Food Day, our school collected 1212 items. The class that brought in the most won a chocolate cake. Teacher Lynn Neumann delivered the food items for us.

• From recycling proceeds we sent $71 to Adopt a Gorilla, $31 to CNIB, $25 to World Wildlife Federation, $12 to Help the Aged

• Brought in 4 Unicef videos for the school prior to Halloween

• Made wreath with the Parent Association for Festival Of Trees, a big decorated tree and Christmas item event to raise funds for the Hospital

• Donated 300 items to our local women's shelter, Unity house 

• Donated $126 to CODE from our annual used book sale (books 25 cents each!)

• Made and sold beadie buddies and donated $80 to Canadian Red Cross for Earthquake in India relief

• Celebrated Anti-Racism Day by distributing bilingual stickers and posters, and with our annual face painting-racism exercise

• Viewed Kitty Cochrane's trip to Brazil via the website she helped make 

• Used $34 from recycling to buy 15 Safeway reusable bags for club members as a year end gift
  
  

Other school projects:

• Teacher Charlie Schrama coordinated our annual Terry Fox Walk, raising $300 for Cancer Research 

• The staff raised $1,000 for United Way staff through lunches and an auction

• The Marcellus family coordinated the Unicef boxes for Halloween for our school, and we raised $1230

• French Grade 7/8 went Christmas carolling with seniors.

• Librarian Carol Desilets coordinated Loonies for Literacy and Books for Santa’s Anonymous

• Kitty Cochrane's 3K class brought in Unity House (women and children's shelter) donations.

• Lynn Newman’s grade 2/3 class, Laura Dussault’s grade 4 class, Grade 7/8 French, and Carol Marcellus’ grade 6 class brought in donations for Operation Christmas Box. 

• Sean Horan in French Kindergarten donated his own money to Red Cross India Earthquake relief

• Kitty Cochrane's 3K class donated recycling funds to Pueblito, Zoocheck and CPAR

• Lynn Newmann’s 2/3 class donated recycling funds to Santa’s Anonymous

• Mrs. Marcellus and 6K collected items for the Food Bank for Christmas

• The Parent Association held their annual Christmas Bazaar and donated $700 in proceeds to Santa’s Anonymous and the Food Bank

• Teacher Graca Hollett did recycling with the 2/3 French class, and they donated $32 to Children’s Wish Foundation