The Season of Giving
Things are looking decidedly festive around SJK! The Lower School is celebrating the Ten Days of Giving with different activities each day to provide our youngest students with the opportunity to give back. Each day I see some of our Grade 6 leaders carefully arranging the non-perishable cans and other goods that will be donated to local food banks. It is wonderful to see our Lower School students learning how to make a difference in their local community.
Our Parents’ Association also got into the spirit of the season last month when they worked together to create 155 shoebox gifts for women in need. They were delivered to local women’s shelters in the Waterloo and Guelph/Wellington regions. Special thanks to Jennifer Maddock for organizing this year's Shoebox Project initiative at SJK and to all the parent volunteers for helping us kick off the holiday season with such a generous project.
On Monday our Trek Nepal group is hosting a Christmas Cookie Walk in Founders’ Hall with all funds going towards our SJK Nepal Fund. Our SJK bakers will be busy this weekend preparing all those tasty treats. The event begins at 4:45 p.m. and will last until we run out of cookies. We hope you will join us.
On Tuesday our Grade 7 and 8 students will be hosting Fair Noël to fundraise for Wyndham House, a charity that supports important work with homeless and at-risk youth in the Guelph area. There will be holiday baking along with fun games. Everyone is looking forward to this event. This is certainly a season of giving at SJK!
Speaking of giving, over the course of the fall, I have heard from a number of parents who would like to support the school as one of their chosen charities. We have been touched by this show of philanthropic support and appreciate such kindness. To assist us with the growth of our advancement program, I am delighted to announce that we will be welcoming Ms. Amelia Canto Ellis as our Director of Advancement in January 2020. Ms. Canto Ellis is a Guelph native and has held a variety of advancement roles in both healthcare and educational settings. She has particular strengths in engagement and relationship building, collaborative leadership and innovative strategy development. We are excited to welcome her to SJK in the New Year.
Thank you for continuing to support SJK and our efforts to give back to the local communities.
Ms. Cheryl Boughton
Head of School
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Our Parents’ Association also got into the spirit of the season last month when they worked together to create 155 shoebox gifts for women in need. They were delivered to local women’s shelters in the Waterloo and Guelph/Wellington regions. Special thanks to Jennifer Maddock for organizing this year's Shoebox Project initiative at SJK and to all the parent volunteers for helping us kick off the holiday season with such a generous project.
On Monday our Trek Nepal group is hosting a Christmas Cookie Walk in Founders’ Hall with all funds going towards our SJK Nepal Fund. Our SJK bakers will be busy this weekend preparing all those tasty treats. The event begins at 4:45 p.m. and will last until we run out of cookies. We hope you will join us.
On Tuesday our Grade 7 and 8 students will be hosting Fair Noël to fundraise for Wyndham House, a charity that supports important work with homeless and at-risk youth in the Guelph area. There will be holiday baking along with fun games. Everyone is looking forward to this event. This is certainly a season of giving at SJK!
Speaking of giving, over the course of the fall, I have heard from a number of parents who would like to support the school as one of their chosen charities. We have been touched by this show of philanthropic support and appreciate such kindness. To assist us with the growth of our advancement program, I am delighted to announce that we will be welcoming Ms. Amelia Canto Ellis as our Director of Advancement in January 2020. Ms. Canto Ellis is a Guelph native and has held a variety of advancement roles in both healthcare and educational settings. She has particular strengths in engagement and relationship building, collaborative leadership and innovative strategy development. We are excited to welcome her to SJK in the New Year.
Thank you for continuing to support SJK and our efforts to give back to the local communities.
Ms. Cheryl Boughton
Head of School
St. John's Kilmarnock School
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