The Global Education Club

Accomplishments:

• Collected 600 Food bank items for World Food Day on October 16. Handed out "jelly bean game" (inequity of food and resources exercise) to all classes. Made a bulletin board display, and gave information on food/hunger to teachers,

• For Remembrance Day we had a used book sale and donated the proceeds to Doctors Without Borders, who help in war zones

• For Christmas, we sold friendship bracelets made by street children in Bogotá Columbia, with the $108 in proceeds going directly to them

• We began our in class recycling program, for drinking containers. We bought 8 juice box tubs for classrooms with the proceeds.

• We sent information home with every child teaching them about our new city recycling drop off bins, and with an opportunity for each family to give feedback to the mayor. 

• We sent 128 families’ requests for more and continued recycling to City Council

• We gave rewards to children whose families participated in the city recycling program

• For Anti-Racism Day on March 21, the club did their annual face painting simulation exercise, to see what it feels like to be a visible minority.

• In April we collected used phone books. The $25 raised was donated to Help The Aged

• For Mother’s Day we sold carnations, and donated $100 to Adopt a Gorilla and $86 to our local women's shelter, Unity House

• We collected and sent off 31 pairs of eyeglasses to needing eyes in developing countries

Other school projects:

• Teacher Carol Marcellus' grade 6 class protected one acre of rainforest through the proceeds from a bake sale 

• Junior High teacher Scott Barr challenged his students to donate 300 items to the Food Bank. In return he had his head shaved in front of the whole school!

• Grade 3 student Kelsey Chimelewski raised $35 for World Wildlife Fund by drawing and selling her own posters

• Ryan Campbell collected juice boxes all year from 2 classes and donated the proceeds to SPCA and Ducks Unlimited

• Parents of Kitty Cochrane's 3K class gave a year end donation gift of $120 to Amnesty International

• Teacher Lynn Newman’s class put together Christmas shoeboxes gifts for needing children in war torn countries

• The Parent Association had their annual Xmas Bazaar with proceeds going to Santa’s Anonymous.

• Teachers Charlie Schrama and Carol Marcellus coordinated our annual Terry Fox Walk

• Teacher Carol Marcellus' children coordinated the annual Unicef coin box collection for Halloween. $1,000 was raised for children to receive food, water, education, and health care

• The staff raised $914 for United Way through lunches and an auction, coordinated by teacher Chantal Collin

• Kitty Cochrane's 3K class raised $135 World Wildlife Fund through a chili lunch for teachers 

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