Tag: service-learning

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Gr. 7 Girls Start “Free the Children” Group

Gr 7 Girls Fill Up Boxes for 'Halloween for Hunger'
Gr. 7 girls fill Up boxes for 'Halloween for Hunger'

I’d like to recognize a group of Grade 7 girls (Jan, Isabelle and Emily) who after attending We Day, started their own Free The Children group!

They are organizing all the major events sponsored by FTC in the junior school. They participated in the “Halloween for Hunger” campaign, collecting cans instead of candy on Halloween. I took a picture of them with their filled up boxes!

Next up, they will be organizing the junior school’s participation in the “Vow of Silence” on November 30 which requires the girls to be silent (no speaking, texting…communicating with each other in any way!) for 24 hours. Youth around the world are asked to do this to show their support of children who are silenced by poverty, disease and exploitation.

Karen Webb
Gr. 7 Teacher

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KidSafe Tutors

KidSafe Tutors
KidSafe Tutors taking a break on the playground!

Our tutoring program with KidSafe at Queen Alexandra Elementary School started on September 27 and is going strong.

Fifteen Grade 11 and Grade 12 students travel to QAE, located at East Broadway and Clarke, every Tuesday after school. To greet them, are a group of Grade 6’s and 7’s who were selected by their teachers to participate in this KidSafe-YHS partnership, now in its second year.

York House students are doing a fantastic job helping students with their homework and taking the time to listen, explain and assist in any way they can. For more information on this program and other outreach opportunities within our community, please contact Lynne Stanger, Director of Global Programs and Service-Learning.