The young students at Port Guichon Elementary excel at living Delta school district’s values of caring, respect, responsibility, community and excellence.
The students often hold food drives and other fundraising initiatives to support various charitable organizations.
After hearing that more than one billion mammals, birds, and reptiles likely lost their lives in the recent Australian wildfires, including a third of all the koalas in New South Wales (according to an estimate from the University of Sydney), they turned their attention to help the koalas and other Australian wildlife.
So far, the students have raised more than $700 through a variety of initiatives:
- recycling program – the entire school collected bottles and cans
- Mrs. Yargeau’s class - Division 7 ran a candy fundraiser
- Mrs. Scarr’s class – Division 6 ran a cupcake sale - the class baked more than 300 cupcakes.
Mrs. Scarr’s class also announced daily facts about koalas to the school for several weeks
As a result of their fundraising activities, the school has adopted a koala and an eastern grey kangaroo, and is supporting other wildlife conservation efforts in Australia through the World Wildlife Fund.
