Happy Holidays!

Cameron Street School Council wishes everyone a safe and Happy Holiday season!

And the winner is.....

Our Tis the Season of Giving - Food Drive Challenge has come to an end.  We are so proud of all the schools who accepted this challenge and all the staff, students and families that helped to make it such a success.

Before we announce the winning school we wish to congratulate ALL of the schools.  Because of you the Collingwood Food Banks will receive over 2900 items this holiday season!

Now the moment everyone has been waiting three weeks for, the winner of the first ever Tis the Season of Giving Food Drive Challenge ( issued to all schools in the area by Cameron Street Public School ), who will win a free pizza lunch for the whole school as well as bragging rights and be announced in the local papers as the winning school is.................

ADMIRAL

Admiral collected 1200 items 

with 446 students that = 2.7 items per student

( also featured in the photo with Admiral staff & students is local musician Aaron Garner who was at the school this morning to perform his song Give )

Cameron collected 842 items

with 342 students that = 2.5 items per student

( Cameron donated the items we collected to both the Heritage Community Church & the Salvation Army)

Mountain View collected 537 items

with 380 students that = 1.4 items per student

Connaught collected 363 items

with 290 students that = 1.3 items per student

CONGRATULATIONS again to all of the schools!  Maybe we can make this an annual challenge!  

Have a Safe and Happy Holiday Season!

Today's Primary Christmas Concert is a go!

Today's Primary Christmas Concerts at the school are set to go.  The school has most of it's students there today so as of 9:30am this morning the Primary Christmas Concerts are a go.

Kindergarten A Day Concert is in the Kindergarten Classroom from 2:30pm - 3:15pm

Grade 1 - 3 Primary Concert will be in the Gym 

from 3:30pm - 4:30pm

* don't forget that the Tis the Season of Giving food drive challenge is ending on Friday.  So bring in a  non perishable food donation to put under the Christmas trees.  Let's show all the other schools just how much Cameron Cares!

School is closed due to weather conditions!

Attention Cameron Street Families!

 

All schools in SCDSB Area 5 (which includes Cameron Street Public School) are closed today, Tuesday December 14, 2010 due to the weather conditions in our immediate area. 

Please take care and stay off the roads unless it is extremely necessary to go out.

Tis the Season of Giving midway stats are in!

We are at the midway point of the Tis the Season of Giving challenge and the current standings are as follows...

Admiral - 600 items

Cameron - 400 items

Connaught - 147 items

Mountain View - 30 items

Going into the final week of the challenge and we have found out that the winning school will not only be featured in the EB and have bragging rights, but they will also receive a free pizza lunch for the whole school!  Congratulations and thank you to all of you who have been sending in food donations, while this is a fun and friendly challenge among the schools, we are really doing it to raise some food for those who are in need!  So thank you!  Good luck in the final week of the challenge.

To our Cameron families!  Let's step it up in this final week and show everyone just how much CAMERON CARES!  Remember it's also the perfect time to bring in a food item when you come to the school on Wednesday at 2:30pm for the A Day JK/SK concert, or at 3:30pm for the Primary concert ( grades 1-3 ) , or for B day families on Thursday at 2:30pm

( please note that to keep the "fun" in the challenge,  each school has been able to "fudge" there real number up to 20 items. )

Tremendous event!

If you were at Cameron's Christmas Surprise this past Saturday then you know what a tremendous success the morning was, we could not be happier with the turn out!

Cameron Street School Council wishes to extend a HUGE Thank You to all of the amazing people that helped to make Saturday such a great day.

Our Major event sponsors:

As well as all the other sponsors who made the event possible:

Curries Farm Market, Sobeys, San Fillipo, Masterpix, Pretty River Valley Country Inn, Metro, Smart's Flowers, Loblaw, and of course SANTA himself!

Each one of the local "celeb's" who came out to flip pancakes, Mayor Elect Cooper, Deputy Mayor Elect Lloyd, former Principal John Campbell, the Collingwood Fire Department, Drew Wright, Matt McLean, Councillor Mike Edwards, Members of the Collingwood Rotary ( Dr. John Miller, Deb Edgar, Todd Christensen and Todd's family ) Aaron & Heather Garner.  Aaron also performed his song Give. 

As well as the dancers from Fleetwood dance who put on a fabulous performance, all the Marketplace vendors who were on site with some great gift giving items, CSPS mom Michelle McCullough for volunteering her face painting talents, all our bakers who donated to the bake sale and of course the event would not have been able to run without the help of the fabulous staff at CSPS and all our amazing volunteers.

THANK YOU EVERYONE!

( Check out some great pictures at www.mycollingwood.ca - Thanks to Julie Card & Dave West ) 

It is ON! Tis the Season of Giving - Food Drive Challenge

Ready, Set, it is ON!

Today is the first day of the Tis the Season of Giving Challenge!
From today until December 17th the schools that have accepted our challenge will be collecting non perishable food donations.  The school that collects the most food will not only win bragging rights, but will also be featured in the EB and the Connection as the winning school!

The schools that have accepted our challenge are :

Mountain View Public School

Admiral Collingwood Elementary School

Connaught Public School 

Check back here on December 10th for a mid-challenge update on just how well the schools are doing!

Approx. 150 plus families will use the Collingwood food bank this holiday season.  Please don't forget to send in non perishable food donations with your children!  Let's have some fun, and collect a lot of food!