ST. CLEMENT
WE STUDENT COUNCIL
APRIL EVENTS
FRIDAY, APRIL 7: $1 Dress Down Day
$1 Dress Down Day (money going towards ShareLife)
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MON.,APRIL 3-FRI., APRIL 21:Zinc Saves Lives
USED battery collection to save lives & the planet
(a grade 8 Me2We Ambassador Initiative...more information attached)
FRIDAY, APRIL 21: Earth Day Spirit Day
Students to wear the three colours: Brown, Green & Blue
WE ROCK…THEY ROLL
Collecting pop tabs for wheelchairs
(a grade 7 Me2We Ambassador Initiative…
Continues until the end of the year-more information attached)
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5,440 pop tabs collected so far!
God of Justice,
ustice,
We know that we should always work work hard to treat others with respect and fairness.
airness.
Help us to remember to play by the rules and to take turns. Teach us to live with justice every day, so we can live happily with others and look for peaceful solutions to any problems.
roblems.
Amen GET GIRLS TO GRADUATION –
Raised so far:
$755 – We Create Change with Loose Change
$750.20 -Valentine-Popcorn-O-Grams
$ TBA March Dress Down Day
$ LEFT TO GO: $1,994.80
Written & Initiated by Gr. 8 Ambassador: Andrew Z.
Over the past two months, the St. Clement We Student Council has been raising
money for Youth Without Shelter. With the outstanding support from the parents
and the students of St. Clement we managed to raise a total of $640 dollars to
provide youth with emergency crisis care. This is so important, as the youth are our
future and our family. By helping one youth at a time we are making a huge
impact on the future of our world as that youth might go on to do something that
you could never dream of.
There is a story of young farm boy who saw another boy drowning in the lake, he
pulled out the boy and saved his life. The boy’s family was happy that they paid
for the farm boy’s education. The farm boy was Sir Alexzander Fleming who went
on to create penicillin. The boy in the lake was Winston Churchill. Later in life,
Winston Churchill was sick and was saved by Fleming’s invention of penicillin. So
never say young people don’t deserve a chance as they might be the next
Alexander Fleming who goes on to make a difference no one will forget. That is
why helping everyone matters. It does not matter their race or how they grew up
they can make a difference. Never take for granted what you have as there are
people your age that can only dream of the life you have been given. At any
time it could be you that is wishing for that life. “Let’s stop homelessness one youth
at a time.”-Youth Without Shelter
For the donation of $640, the We Student Council has decided that $400 should
go to providing a youth with a home for 20 days.
• $200 ($50 per food package, therefore 4 food packages) should go to providing our youth with food. • $40 ($20 per personal hygiene supplies therefore 2 per personal hygiene supplies) should go to help our youth stay clean. Name of item Home for youth for 20 days Food packages personal hygiene supplies Cost of item $400 Quantity of item Percent of money 1 63% $50 4 31% $20 2 6% 1: Home for youth for 20 days 2: Food packages 3: personal hygiene supplies !
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April “We Rock, They Roll Campaign”
This April, our We Student Council will be continuing the pop tabs
for wheelchairs campaign. The We Student Council also decided that
our school will be having this campaign for the rest of the year and
possibly next year. The council decided this, because St. Clement
already in one month raised 5440 pop tabs! By the time we finish the
school year, our goal of 400 pop tabs per family has a great chance
of being fulfilled. So, keep collecting!
Here are some important notices for April in collecting pop tabs;
i) Pop tabs should be placed in each class jar, not in the jug down by St. Clement’s school office. This way the pop tabs in each class can be counted, and by the end of three months a Free Dress Down Day will be going towards the highest collecting class. ii) All jars are going to be collected and counted every Friday. iii) The results of the collection are posted outside the office and are the actual pop tabs are inside the water jug. iv) All types of pop tabs are accepted, as long as they are made out of aluminum. I have a feeling that April is going to be an outstanding month
for this campaign. I was amazed after our school collected those
many pop tabs in just one month, and can only imagine what could
be collected in the four weeks of April. I can remember how my family
managed to collect a 400 pop tabs in two years. Now compare that
to the whole school contributing and bringing in 5440 pop tabs in just
a month. That is just another example of how We can make a
difference. Again, KEEP ROCKING, SO THEY KEEP ROLLING.
Written & Initiated by Gr. 7 Ambassador Daniel F.
SPECIAL SHOUT OUT TO THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR
EXCEPTIONALLY AMAZING POP TAB CONTRIBUTIONS!
LEAH G. (Gr. 2- Ms. Dionne’s class)
KYLA H (Gr. 2 – Ms. Trchala’s class)
MRS. TATANGELO’s CLASS
Zinc Saves Lives
Remember those flashlight batteries you carelessly threw out last week? Or those batteries from your remote you
just tossed in the garbage? Did you know that you could have saved lives by donating them to Zinc Saves Lives?
Probably not, and that's why our school is starting their first ever battery drive! We found out about this amazing
project from We Day in September, and ever since then, we’ve wanted to contribute to this amazing cause. What
better time, than the month of Earth Day, to start! Zinc can do amazing things, and a single double A battery can save
SIX people's lives, so keep that in mind the next time you empty your batteries. Our goal as a school is 2000 batteries
(5 batteries per family) so every battery counts!
Not only are you saving lives, but you’re also saving the environment. Batteries are extremely harmful to the
environment, and they take decades to break down in wastelands. They also contain many harmful pollutants, such as
battery acid, copper, and mercury. These things are extremely toxic and end up in landfills if they are not taken care of
properly. These have the potential harms animals, lakes, and the overall environment, so it is so important that you not
only donate it, but make sure all batteries are disposed of properly.
Zinc deficiency is very common all over the world, and 2 billion people lack zinc. Zinc is so important because we
need zinc to help our immune system with viruses and bacteria. Also, zinc is used to make proteins and DNA. Another
aspect that zinc is needed for is healing wounds. Finally, zinc helps with our sense of taste and smell! The 450 000
people who die from zinc deficient related health issues is easily avoidable. As you can see, zinc is necessary in all
diets, and this drive will help save lives!
Now that people are aware of how dangerous, yet helpul, used household batteries are, they are making it very easy
for you to help. Every Monday & Friday, until April 21, we will be going around to classes collecting the batteries,
and we will be donating them to a local Home Depot. They will then go through “Call2Recycle” and they will take it
from there, and we rest assure that they are going to a good cause (Zinc Saves Lives only collects on We Day, so we’re
donating them through Call 2 Recycle). The We Student Council will then count every single used battery, and report
how many to Zinc saves Lives. Please do your part, which is to donate as often as possible until April 21; we can't
reach 2000 batteries without the help from you!
Don't forget, this is only one way to save lives with batteries. After this fundraiser, more batteries will be used, and
we encourage you to continue disposing these batteries properly to help make this world a cleaner and better place,
one battery at a time!
Written and Initiated by Grade 8 Me2We Ambassadors, Martina G and Sabina D