Today Garden Staff and Students participated in Earth Hour between the hours of 2 and 3PM. It was a peaceful hour of powering down, once we found all the light switchesJ. In 2011, we saw our highest reduction in energy usage (29.9 %.) at schools and offices. In 2017, we came close to our best ever reduction in energy use at 28%. Can we improve upon that reduction this year? Don’t forget to power down at your own homes on Saturday evening between the hours of 8:30 PM and 9:30 PM. Let’s all do our part to help our Earth.
Once again we will be having our Garden Dance – A – thon because “it’s better when we’re dancing!” It will be on April 13, 2018. Students will be dancing up a storm to raise money for our school and for the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund in support of First Nations reconciliation. We have decided to donate half of the raised funds to such a worthy cause. The pledge forms will be sent home on Monday March 26th so get those pledges forms filled and let’s dance, dance, dance.
Ms. Hardy
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
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