Castlemore Public School takes leadership to the next level

Castlemore Public School participates in many leadership programs including MINGA, where students get a chance to learn about global issues and go on field trips such to local soup kitchens or animal shelters. Grade 6, 7 and 8 students can join and are divided into four groups.

Castlemore also fundraises. They recently raised money for Jump Rope for Heart and Hoops for Heart. They also participated in milk bags for Haiti where students would bring in milk bags and they would be sent to a factory where they were turned into beds and mats and sent to Haiti. Another fundraising opportunity was Hope for Japan where students donated money and wrote a message of hope for people living in Japan.

Students from Castlemore also went to the Leadership Now! conference and some of the students became inspired and started their own Dance Crew.

Glenhaven Senior Middle School Eco team keeps busy

In recent months the club has created environmental chants, taken part in Earth Hour, Earth Day activities, Litter Not campaigns, planted trees at a neighbourhood park and started to raise funds for a village in India.

Churchill Meadows students raise money for children in Sierra Leone

Currently Churchill Meadow students are fundraising to provide health care for children in Sierra Leone. Students are making, by hand, friendship bracelets during their spare time and at recesses. The bracelets are sold at the school and money raised goes towards the effort. The students will also be showcased in one of Churchill Meadows monthly "Character Bound", character education assemblies.

Morning Star students are EcoKids

Morning Star's Environment Club won 3rd place in the Great EcoKids Challenge for the environmental initiatives going on at their school. They will recieve a Sony Cyber-shot digital camera. For more information about the winner schools, or the contest, click here.

John Fraser Secondary School raises $10,000 for Operation Herbie

John Fraser Secondary School recently held a charity week that involved the whole school in raising money for a chosen charity. Students and staff successfully raised $10,000, which was given to Operation Herbie, an organization that brings children from less developed nations to Toronto's Sick Kids Hospita to receive life-saving surgery.