This week has been very busy at St. Anthony! Each event deserves its own blog post, but there simply hasn’t been the time.
Yesterday, we had our annual Terry Fox event. We had a great walk to Dow’s Lake and back led by Sam, a former student from St. Anthony. Sam is now in grade 10 – he had the same cancer that Terry Fox did and he is doing very well.
Sam leading the way
Later, after we all returned to the school we had a great pep rally to celebrate raising over $340.00 for the Terry Fox Foundation. Mr. McGuire had agreed that if the school reached $300.00 he would dye his hair pink! Sam then turned Mr. McGuire into a principal with really pink hair.
Mr. McGuire also agreed to become a princess if the school raised over $300.00. So zap! Mr. McGuire became a princess!
Mr. McGuire as a princess
What a wonderful day – what terrific spirit The kids chanted “I am Terry” the entire time they walked. Some admitted afterwards that they were a little hoarse after all the yelling!
The next day – Thursday artist Shayna Tate spent the whole morning talking to staff and kids about what they would like in a mural for the school. The mural will be painted starting Monday and the ideas of our students will be represented in the art work. Our students will do the painting along with Shayna’s help.
Shayna Tate gets ideas from Ms. Nelson’s class
The students are very excited about the mural – all of you will be able to see it as you enter the front of the school – look for changes starting September 29!
While this was going on, our boys were playing soccer at McMaster Catholic School. They played really hard and even practiced between games!
Here is a short video from today’s tournament. They did a great job!
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Tomorrow, we start our Fun2Run Program. We are the only school doing this program. We are working with CHEO to help kids in grades 4,5 and 6 get and stay fit. Our instructor Michael Stashin is a a running instructor based in Ottawa Canada who has a passion for introducing runners to simple changes they can make in their technique to reduce the amount of effort as well as the potential for injury due to impact. Michael will be running 14 marathons in 14 days and he plans to finish at our school!
We have also launched our Aviva Campaign this week. We want to win a grant for $100,000.00 to transform our school yard. We will need your help!! Voting starts on September 29th. This will be a really big campaign at our school and we will need every parent to help us!
Here is the link to find out how to vote.
We want to win – we need your help!
This has certainly been a great week and there is more to come!
