Thetis Island Elementary School Requests

Genny Redman and Simone Luckham are very excited to be teaching at Thetis Elementary School this year. There is a wonderful proverb that says , " It takes a village to raise a child."   We, Simone, Genny and the Thetis Island Parent Association, would really like to embrace this philosophy and involve the Thetis Island Community in our little school.  

A. Needed: Fruit

In September we are planning on processing some fruit with the students at Thetis Elementary School. We will be selling what we make and the funds will be going to refugees.  

So if you have extra fruit we are looking for the following:  quince, apples, pears and plums. 

We would like to have them in the first week of September.  However, if you have fruit right now, I will be home this week and you could drop it off at my house.  (59 Pilkey Point road) I am gone from the 21st of September until the 25th but then I will be home again until school starts. 

We would also like to borrow a good fruit dryer and if you have any pint canning jars sitting around we could really make use of them as well.

B. Needed: Listeners

We will be starting the volunteer reading program in mid September.  This program will be run very much like the volunteer reading program that was done when Arlene Kasting was teaching at the school.  We hope to have two volunteers every morning that will listen to students read.  So it would be a commitment of one morning a week for about an hour. I know there are times when people travel and are away.  We do not want this to stop you from volunteering as we can make it work and possibly have people listening to students read at different times of the year. If you are interested in helping out with this program, please let me know. 

c. Needed: volunteer soccer coach

We are looking for anyone that is interested in volunteering to coach soccer.  We could run this as part of our P.E. program and have it one day a week near the end of school day.  Simone and I would help out with the coaching.  Parents can also participate as they could come a bit earlier if they are picking up their kids and play some soccer. 

You can contact Genny by email at: gredman@sd79.bc.ca

or call 250-246-2465, if you are interested in volunteering or you would like to donate fruit. 

Thank you 

Genny Redman