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Your Parent and Student Grad councils have been hard at work planning the outline for the Graduating year. We have trimmed down the fundraising to four main events which we plan to execute very well so that we may maximize our returns. The fundraising events are as follows:
1. The ever popular poinsettias sales. The students will start these sales for the end of October ending November the 17th. Where parent involvement comes in is delivery day. This will be Tuesday, November 29. We will need parents to help us unload the plants at the school and put together the orders during the school day. As soon as school is out, we will start the delivery of the plants to our customers which will involve parents and students to have this completed as quickly as possible.
2. Christmas tree pickup for $5.00 per tree. Rotary is allowing us to sell $5.00 tickets during their Christmas tree sales which run Nov 26 to December 15. The students will be selling these tickets on location at the complex with shifts after school from 3pm to 7pm and on the weekend 11am to 4pm. The students will be organizing their volunteer time slots. Where parent involvement comes in is after Christmas, Saturday, January 7th when we pick up the trees at our customers homes and deliver them to be either mulched or burned. (this is still being worked out)
3. Celgar Christmas party safe-ride home and coat check, Friday December the 16th. This involves both the students and parents. The students who do not drive, will be involved in manning the coat check. The driving students will be working with their parents on delivering party-goers safely home. It was a great success last year.
4. Spring basket and plant sales. The sales timeframe will be in April with delivery in May. The plants are beautiful and run from baskets of annuals to herbs, beautiful tomato plants and the like. Devry, who are the source of the poinsettias, also provide these plants. Exact dates will be given when we move into the new year.
************Our first meeting for parents that are willing to volunteer in any of the forms outlined above is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov 2 at the school. The time is 7pm. The success of these events depend on many hands working together to get things done. Even if you can only offer a couple of hours, any and all time will be appreciated.***********
Of course, the reward of successful fund raising is to have fun grad events. The events that are planned are listed in chronological order:
1. Grad photos- timeframes are from Nov 24 to Nov 26 and Nov 28, Nov 30 and Dec 1 and 2. The grads have been busy choosing their timeframes which have been posted on their grad board at the school. We will be purchasing the tri-folder pictures for each and every grad which includes the individual cap and gown picture, the group picture of the entire grad class and the individual Grand March picture along with a dvd of the ceremony, grand march and dance. NEW THIS YEAR- Buddy books: This is an exciting addition. Students and parents can put together a book which includes all grad events and submit their own pictures to create a wonderful memory book of friends, family and events. The cost of the book is $199 plus HST and requires a commitment of 20 books with a $20 commitment fee that is applied to the cost of the book to go ahead. The book can be delivered in a large 8x12in size or 2 smaller 6x8in or 4 -4x5in. This allows students to go in together and split the cost two or four ways. Your Grad will be bringing home the photo order form with a complete price list from their photo shoot.
2. Murder Mystery- Thursday, December 8th at 6:00pm. This is a school organized event and is a lot of fun for all participants. The grad student council chooses a murder mystery and with the administration and teachers, plan out their parts. The parent involvement is in the form of providing and serving food, decorating and helping to create a fun space in theme to the murder mystery, prizes for costumes and successful sleuthing and security as required by the school.
3. Grad Banquet-tentative date set for the last week of February for an estimated cost of $30.00. The Student Grad council is working on their theme and how they would like this event to come together, so more to follow in the next month on this event.
4. THE BIG EVENT- Grad weekend is set for May 25 and 26th. The ceremonies put on by the school will be Friday night and will be located at Selkirk College. Specific times will be announced closer to the event. The Grand March, dance and Dry Grad celebration will be Saturday night and will be at the Complex. Again, time and details will be announced when we move into the new year.
******************Our first meeting for parents that are willing to volunteer in any form for our first event, the Murder Mystery, will be Wednesday, Nov 9 at the school. The time is 7pm. This will include the parents which volunteered on the security list as well.**************************
We will be holding meetings specific to events. For example, once the security team comes together with the murder mystery, we will give them the remaining events and what they need to do to cover future events. They will meet separately to plan and therefore if will be a more effective use of their time. I will have Mr. Robinson send out messages to all parents in the beginning, however, I will be using the signup sheets parents filled in at the first grad meeting to build specific email lists for events, adding any parents who come forward to volunteer.
The Dry Grad fee will not exceed $100, and possibly, if things go well, we will be able to lower that amount. The 2012 Grad class is moving forward and I have no doubt we will have a fun, exciting year. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to send me an email.
I hope to see you all next week!
Kathy Sykes
Grad Parent Council President
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