The
Global Education Club
The
Global Education Club
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2002-2003 |
Accomplishments:
Recycling: 
Bought 3 more recycling tubs for classrooms
Donated :$12 to Help the Aged
$20 to World Wildlife Fund
$20 to Canadian Wildlife Federation
$15 to Salvation Army for our
Christmas Bazaar
$25 to Covenant House, for homeless
children.
$35 to
Diann Fossey Gorilla Fund
$20 to Columbian students
$15 to Free the Children
Two Used Book Sales:
$50 to CODE, helping literacy.
$50 to Diabetes Association
$50 to Doctors Without Borders, for
Remembrance Day
$50 to Tarahumara Children's Hospital
in the Copper Canyons in Mexico
$50
to Salvation Army homeless shelter
$50 to Canadian Physicians for Aid
and Relief (treeplanting in Africa)
Other Activities:
For World Food Day, encouraged a competition for food items. Our school brought in 1600 items
We had a fieldtrip to the Salvation Army and SPCA in November. 16 children and 7 adults attended.
Teacher
assistant Najat shared food, clothing, language, and religion of Jordan with the
club, Grade 2, and Grade 3
Held a bake sale to
raise money for CNIB for White Cane Week in February, and
distributed bright yellow Braille rulers to school students
Celebrated Chinese New Years with a student from China, Victor Gu
Hanukkah was celebrated with Brian Wolff, with potato latkes, a menorah, and dreidel. Yum!
Instead of receiving costly medal awards at end of the year, the club and our school donated the cost ($50) to the University of Alberta Burn Unit on behalf of the local Firefighters, in appreciation of their help with our school fires this spring, recognizing that some children are not as lucky as we were with our fires
Our big excitement was
receiving the
Distinguished Youth Citizenship Award of Wood Buffalo Award.
Here Ms Cochrane accepts it on behalf of the Global Club
from City Councilor/teacher John Vibogh.
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 Our fieldtrip to the S.P.C.A. to visit the animals and walk the dogs in November. |
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Other school efforts:
-$260 was
raised through the Terry Fox Walk, with Mr. Schrama coordinating.
-We gathered $1600 through the Halloween Unicef boxes.
-Grade 4-6 and 7/8 choirs sang Christmas carols for seniors
-The staff donated items for two Christmas hampers.
-The district librarians collected loonies for literacy.
-Mrs. Neumann's class made up 15 Christmas shoebox
gifts, and donated recycling money to Santa's Anonymous.
-The Parent Association held their annual school
bazaar at Christmas with recycled gifts, and raised $1800 for
Santa's Anonymous and the Food Bank
-Junior
High held a penny competition and raised $1,000 for the Food Bank at Christmas
(Mr. Lowe's class won!)
-Mrs. Houdin's Grade 1 class raised $150 for the Bed Program (4 complete bed
kits!), donating household items to needing children in developing countries.
The layettes contained 34 items
including: 2pks of vitamins, a cradle set, rattle and teether set, 3 bed sheets,
a carrying basket with lid, juice sipper, mosquito net and believe it or not, a
woolen sweater, hat and mittens
-Ms
Fougiere's Grade 2 class "adopted" a Mexican Free Tailed Bat
-Ms Cochrane's Grade 3 class donated $36 from recycling to Columbian students
-Mrs. Marcellus and her children raised $500 through their Tree of Hope for
Iraqi children during the Iraqi war (Unicef)
-Students
Assisting Other Students (SASP) donated $80 to the Barb Tarbox Fund (stopping
smoking)
-Our school counselor Mrs. Webb coordinated our school collecting 650 plastic
milk jugs for recycling, raising $100
-Mrs King's Class donated $31 raised from recycling
-Mme Collin's 5A class donated $25 to Fondation Paul
Guérin-Lajoie from recycling money
Mrs. Gabriel's 3K class donated $30 from recyling to the S.P.C.A.