Global Club Accomplishments
This year they :

Led the school in a food bank drive, collecting 2600 items.
Led the school in a collection of hats, mitts, and scarves for Coats For Kids, collecting 210 items.
Celebrated Ramadan and learned about Egypt with Aya & tried food.
Learned about global distribution of food through the "Gum Drop Game" for World Food Day.
Tasted yummy Italian baking for World Food Day from Analisa. 
Donated $56 from recycling for endangered animals with World Wildlife Fund.
Raised $70 for Foster Parents Plan through a "guess the number of candies" raffle.
Had two used books sales, with $200 going to CNIB and CODE

Purchased a worm bucket and dirt for composting in a classroom.
Raised $133 through a craft, bake and chip sale to raise funds for rehabilitating child soldiers through Unicef. 
Celebrated anti-racism day with strange face painting.
Purchased An Inconvenient Truth DVD for the school library.
Purchased recycling buckets for more classrooms.
In lieu of year end medals, we donated $25 to Tarahumara Hospital, for indigenous people of the Copper Canyons, in Mexico.


3K Activities & fundraisers. We:
Learned about Islam and Ramadan with a teacher and V.P. from the Islamic school. We ate baklava, flat bread and dates.
Raised $57.22 by collecting coins for Feed The Children.
Raised $66 for Unicef through a Haunted House.
Learned about hunger and causes/cures through "The Smartie Game" and making Stone Soup.
Helped Global Club with recycling.

Other School activities:
$6500 was raised by staff through lunch and auction for our school secretary's family when she was severely hurt in a car accident.
$950 was raised for Cancer research through the Terry Fox Walk.
Staff raised funds for Breast cancer research during the pink ribbon walk.
$850 was raised selling Halloween bags for Unicef.
$1200 was raised by Parent Association for Food Bank through Christmas bazaar.
2000 items were collected for the Center of Hope, a day time drop in shelter, as a school-wide empathy project.
$894 was raised by Ryan Fougere and friends through the Water Project, was sent to Haiti to help with disaster relief
$30,000 was raised through Jump Rope For Heart for the Heart and Stroke research. Our school was the highest earning school in all of Canada! Yahoo!

Recycling:
Global Club - Oprah's school for girls
Global Club - $80 to Sleeping Children
Global Club - $50 to World Wildlife Fund
Diego Rizzuto - $100 to World Wildlife Fund
Lynn Neumann's Grade 4s- Baptist Church Soup Kitchen
Grade 5 student, James - Doctors Without Borders
Teachers - an African School

 

District Activities
Central Office raised $1,503.50 for a family at Christmas time through a silent auction.
District librarians raised funds for 500 books to give to Santa's Anonymous