LIBRARY & UNICEF UPDATE -- DECEMBER 2010
From the Library
Fern’s annual Book Fair was held from November 15th to 18th. Once again, parent volunteers, library assistants and the hundreds of students and parents who visited the fair and bought books made this annual event a terrific success!
Library assistants stapled letters to book fair flyers, and delivered them to classrooms. They put up signs asking for parent volunteers, and posted book fair signs in stairwells and hallways around the school. They also gave up recesses and lunch hours to set up for the fair, straighten books, direct children and their parents, and carry out any other task that was asked of them. Parents and high school students volunteered their time to help out during school hours. They sold books, directed traffic, and advised prospective buyers about good books.
Once again, this year, Paul Stones volunteered his services to run the book fair from Monday to Thursday. He came in and set it up, carting tables from the auditorium for displays, arranged for the cash float, and faxed orders to the book distributor. He was there early on the Friday morning to organize leftover books for pick up.
Last week’s book fair made it possible to purchase nearly $800 of information texts, easy readers, picture storybooks and novels, in both French and English. It will also help to underwrite the cost of running the Boys’ Book Club, the Girls’ Book Club, the Intermediate Book Club, and the Get Caught Reading Program, as well as make it possible to buy new resources to support the curriculum.
Thank you to each and every one of you who made this event such as great success! – Ms. Douglas
UNICEF
Thank you to every student, parent, staff member and to the Fern community at large for their efforts on behalf of UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund. This year UNICEF fundraising was aimed at saving the lives of millions of children around the world with simple, affordable solutions. Access to adequate food, clean water and disease prevention measures allows at-risk children to survive and thrive, while quality education helps break cycles of poverty and disease.
Over the past twelve years, children at Fern School have raised over $15,000 for UNICEF. Thank you, once again, for your generous contributions. Together we are making a difference for children around the world! – Ms. Douglas
Fern’s annual Book Fair was held from November 15th to 18th. Once again, parent volunteers, library assistants and the hundreds of students and parents who visited the fair and bought books made this annual event a terrific success!
Library assistants stapled letters to book fair flyers, and delivered them to classrooms. They put up signs asking for parent volunteers, and posted book fair signs in stairwells and hallways around the school. They also gave up recesses and lunch hours to set up for the fair, straighten books, direct children and their parents, and carry out any other task that was asked of them. Parents and high school students volunteered their time to help out during school hours. They sold books, directed traffic, and advised prospective buyers about good books.
Once again, this year, Paul Stones volunteered his services to run the book fair from Monday to Thursday. He came in and set it up, carting tables from the auditorium for displays, arranged for the cash float, and faxed orders to the book distributor. He was there early on the Friday morning to organize leftover books for pick up.
Last week’s book fair made it possible to purchase nearly $800 of information texts, easy readers, picture storybooks and novels, in both French and English. It will also help to underwrite the cost of running the Boys’ Book Club, the Girls’ Book Club, the Intermediate Book Club, and the Get Caught Reading Program, as well as make it possible to buy new resources to support the curriculum.
Thank you to each and every one of you who made this event such as great success! – Ms. Douglas
UNICEF
Thank you to every student, parent, staff member and to the Fern community at large for their efforts on behalf of UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund. This year UNICEF fundraising was aimed at saving the lives of millions of children around the world with simple, affordable solutions. Access to adequate food, clean water and disease prevention measures allows at-risk children to survive and thrive, while quality education helps break cycles of poverty and disease.
Over the past twelve years, children at Fern School have raised over $15,000 for UNICEF. Thank you, once again, for your generous contributions. Together we are making a difference for children around the world! – Ms. Douglas
