Fit to Learn Campaign

The following letter will be sent out next week with our "early-bird" report cards, but I thought I'd post it here so that all community members could also learn about our newest project.

FIT TO LEARN CAMPAIGN
healthy bodies = healthy minds

Every year our students and our staff raise a great deal of money for worthwhile charities in our community and this year is no exception. We have already raised money for the fight against cancer through our school-wide participation in the Terry Fox Walk/Run. We will, of course, continue to support our community throughout the year, but we have also decided to begin a fund-raising project that will directly benefit our own students by providing a modern fitness facility within the school that can be easily accessed by our students on a daily basis.

The emphasis on healthy living choices not only includes making good decisions about what we eat but also getting active. Currently, the equipment in our fitness room is quite outdated. Our staff and students, both elementary and secondary, are committed to updating this room and we have already raised over $6000.00 internally through staff donations, the Students’ Council, the technological studies department, the prom committee and the elementary division for the initiative that we are calling the “Fit to Learn Campaign”. Participation in this campaign is voluntary.

Another benefit of this campaign is that we will use it as a practical learning experience for some of our business students as well as other students who will be assisting with some of the actual renovations.

We are researching a variety of machines and the optimum set up of this room and one thing we have determined is that we would like to purchase new, industrial-grade equipment, and not equipment meant for personal use. Therefore, we will raise the money needed to equip this room rather than ask for community donations of personal-use equipment.

Our first fund-raising project will be a school-wide magazine sale campaign and we will get the information about this campaign to families in our community prior to Thanksgiving when families tend to gather.

If you would like to donate to this project, but you are not interested in taking part in the magazine subscription sale, we would gladly accept any monetary donation. Donations would be made through the Foundation for Enriching Education and donations over $20 would generate a tax receipt.

The attached form is for your convenience only. Please contact me if you have any questions about the campaign.

Deborah J. McNair
Principal