Creative Initiatives
1 February 2007
Yale Secondary School
We have 15 teachers signed up with their classes. We have divided them into three groups. Sciences, Fine Arts/Languages and Humanities. The challenge is on.
The group of 10 teachers that lose will have to provide and serve a full course lunch to the winning 5. We have daily draws for prizes for students who bring in 2kg of rice. Key Club students are taking shifts at Save-on-Foods to up-sell bags of rice and encourage customers to donate their Save-on-More points which the store will then match the value of.
Abbotsford Christian Middle School
The ten students in the SORT (Student Out Reach Team) team put on a little skit at the start of chapel. One person was just standing at the front, then one by one the other 9 walked by with a bag of rice. They would be asked about the rice and each student would respond with some facts about hunger and rice. Then we showed the results DVD from last year’s campaign. I spoke briefly to all the students about the campaign.
The SORT students painted the posters and hung them around the school. All the info material was passed along to the homeroom teachers, who helped their SORT rep kick off the class effort. We did not offer a prize for the class raising the most because we wanted students to do this for others, not themselves.
Some homerooms challenged another homeroom. We have attendance folders that go to the office each morning. Each day of the campaign, there was a sheet in the attendance folder on which the teacher recorded the amount of rice and money brought in. The secretary put all of these sheets in my box so that I could keep a running tally.
Having the Canada Post cage was a great way to display and store the rice as it came in.