The Global Education Club

Global Club Accomplishments

This year they helped:
Learn about global and local problems
Recycle school pop bottles and juice boxes
Taste Japanese miso soup with seaweed
Donate $40 to help endangered Vancouver Island marmots
Do a blindness simulation exercise
Donate $30 to CNIB
Participate in our annual Anti-Racism face painting exercise
View helping organization websites
Donate the money that would be spent on year-end medals ($50) to Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief for tree planting in Africa

Other School Kindness Efforts

• Mr. Charlie Schrama organized our annual Terry Fox Walk raising funds for cancer research.
• The Marcellus family organized and distributed the annual Unicef boxes.
• The Parent Association's annual Christmas bazaar raised funds for Santa's Anonymous and the Food Bank. It's a great way to provide affordable gifts for children, and encourages reycling.
• Isabelle Doblanko coordinated our annual milk jug recycling day Environment Week June 5-11. We raised $200!
• Students Assisting Students (SASP) with the support of school counselor Karina Webb raised money through 3 bake sales to buy animals (cow, ox) for a community in Africa through World Vision.
• Carol Marcellus' 6K class challenged the school and the district to bring water to school and donate the amount they would pay for a bottle to the tsunami relief fund through UNICEF.  We raised $1500, which became $3000 with a matching donation from the federal government
• Jump Rope for Heart raised $24,000 with the coordinating efforts of teacher Lorraine Proudfoot, assisted by Carol Marcellus and Laura Dussault.
• Kitty Cochrane's Grade 3K learned about Chinese New Year's with the help of two of their students.
• 4L and Lynn Neumann's Grade 4 class filled 15 Christmas shoeboxes, went out for an afternoon and picked up garbage in the community, did school wide recycling and donated the $80 in proceeds to the Baptist Church Soup Kitchen.
• Teacher Chantal Collin coordinated staff to make and donate money for lunches throughout the year to raise funds for various people in need, including an individual traveling frequently to Edmonton for cancer treatments.
• Teacher Marilyne Fedoretz coordinated Kids 4 Cops in honor of 4 fallen Mayerthorpe R.C.M.P. officers. Students Derrick Abbott, Libby Hobkinson and Alicia Sage fundraised $800 towards a memorial. A draw was held for Kids 4 Cops T-shirts, R.C.M.P. prizes and golf passes, and winners golfed with local officers.
• SASP participated in the Rick Hansen run - promoting awareness for spinal injuries.