Katelyn and Emily's Report on Giving Back

For the past couple weeks our Student Advisory Group has been working on giving back to families in need for a wonderful Christmas. We have been having meetings every Monday, were we have been talking about the progress we have made. Some of the things we have been doing are a Canned Food Drive, Adopt a Family, and donating coats and such to Salvation Army. All of this ended on Friday December 14^th.

Today, Monday December 17^th the Times Journal came to our school to take pictures of what we have accomplished, and the reporter also interviewed one of the students from the Student Advisory Group. The main reason why we put all this together is because we feel like everyone should have a thankful Christmas even though Christmas isn’t all about presents. It’s about spending time with people you love. People may be asking why we did more then one thing to give back? The reason why we chose to do more than one thing is that even though doing the canned food drive is a lot to handle, we thought that we could take on more tasks to make four families' Christmas the best that we could.

With all the cans everyone brought in, we have collected over 300 canned goods. There was over 70 dollars of Canadian Tire money to spend on more presents for the families. Also we have at least 20 coats to donate to the Salvation Army.

We would like to thank everybody who brought in presents for the families, canned foods for the canned food drive, and Canadian Tire money to buy even more presents for the families. Also, we would like to thank Mr. Jackson, the Heath unit, and the rest of the Student Advisory Group. This would not work out if no one helped the families in need.

Thank you

Lead Out Loud By Emily

Miss. Brown, Ms. Basson, and Mr. Pearson's 7/8A and 7/8B classes are standing up to bullying!

Lead Out Loud is a program that tells you a little bit about being an upstander, not a bystander. Also, it is a pledge to stop bullying in school, at home, and with your friend(s).

I think everyone should be nice to one another, and it would make our world much better then it is right now. Just think, people have tried to kill themselves because of bullying.

When you go to school do you feel safe? When you go out for recess are you scared that someone is going to bully you? Maybe you don't, but a lot of people do. Maybe you do know how it feels. Maybe you are the one that is the bully.

My pledge is to stop bullying whenever and wherever I see it happening. If I see someone bullying another then I will say "Get real!" I know you think that telling the teacher makes you a tattle tale, but it does not. All you are doing is standing up to bullying by saying someone's feeling are getting hurt. Then the teacher will ask you for more information. That's what I will do. How about you?

So make the pledge!!(Click here to go to visit the Pledge website)