A Community Service Year in Review

By Ms. M. Young, Junior School Director of Community Service

What an incredible community service year we have had in the junior school!
By Ms. M. Young, Junior School Director of Community Service

At a glance, here is what happened in the 2010- 2011 school year (in chronological order):
  • Community Service mission statement was created and implemented.
  • Grades 4, 5, 6 Recycling Club collected the weekly recycling.
  • Terry Fox Run - to-date, we have raised over $97,000 for the Terry Fox Foundation as a school.
  • Grade 6/7- Service Recognition Program.
  • Going Green For Halloween - the junior school Recycling Club asked students and teachers to make or reusing a costume, instead of buying something new.
  • Kidsafe meeting with WPGA - a wish list of how WPGA can best support The Kidsafe Project was generated.
  • Grades 6 and 7 Outdoor Education shore-line clean-up - for 3 hours, these students cleaned up the shoreline of the Squamish River and the heavily-used surrounding forest trails. A large amount of garbage was collected.
  • Invisible Children - grade 7 students joined the senior school students for a special screening of the documentary “Go” in our school cafeteria. This documentary has been put together by an organization called Invisible Children.
  • WE Day Vancouver 2010 - 28 grade 7 students and four junior school teachers attended.
  • Coat/Hoodie Drive - over 600 coats and hoodies were collected at WPGA and handed out to children in Vancouver’s downtown eastside, through their elementary schools this past winter.
  • Festival of Trees for BC Children’s Hospital - WPGA won the ‘Most Child- Like Tree’ category.
  • Apple Crisp Project - grade 5 students made over 250 apple crisps and gave them to the Lookout Shelter.
  • Loonie Sale - over $2,900.00 was raised for Kidsafe covering transportation, rink rental, gift bags, and lunch for 250-300 children at their annual skating party.
  • BCSPCA Supply Dive - over 25 boxes of supplies were collected and given to the BCSPCA.
  • Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society received a cheque for $500.00 and Raincoast Conservation Society received a cheque for $372.23 from the Recycling Club. This money was raised from last year’s deposits on juice containers.
  • Dress Red Day raised $996.28 for BC Children’s Hospital.
  • Response to the earthquake in Japan - writing Hope Letters to children in Japan and holding a bake sale for the Canadian Red Cross’ Japan earthquake/Asia-Pacific tsunami effort ($1700.00 was raised from this sale).
  • In celebration of Earth Day, WPGA held a month long celebration, called Earth Month.
  • Bannock Sale in celebration of Aboriginal Day - the funds raised from this sale went towards a social responsibility initiative which Macdonald Elementary (our sister school) started called 'Bannock for Books'.
  • Jeans Day raised $1,832.75 for BC Children’s Hospital.
  • Pre-kindergarten African Market Day - all items sold at this market raised funds for www.imagine1day.org.
  • Grade 1 craft sale for the Baphumelele Educare Centre in South Africa.
  • WPGA ChildRun team ran for BC Children’s Hospital.
  • Kindergarten card sale for the World Wildlife Fund and Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
  • Sport equipment drive for Kidsafe.
  • End of year school supply drive for Kidsafe.
  • The grade 5 entrepreneurial fair raised $1,228 for Kidsafe.
Our mission is to empower students with the understanding that they can make a difference in the world through their own actions.
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Since 1996, West Point Grey Academy has gratefully resided on the Jericho Lands, the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) Nation and sə̓lílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nation. Honoured to learn and play on these beautiful lands, we endeavour to be a leader in Indigenous education. In creating shared understanding and opportunities, we hope to help foster a more equitable society for all.

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