An Air Quality and Carpet Removal Committee has been formed with a few Equinox and Roden parents. Their goal is to improve air quality through a variety of means including having old carpet removed from our building. If you are interested in getting involved too or if you have ideas or resources to share, please e-mail chair@roden.ca.
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Get Involved at Roden!
Roden Council is looking for parent volunteers! Volunteering is a great way to enrich the school life of your child and provide you with an opportunity to meet the other parents.
Volunteering can be as little as an hour commitment and as time-consuming as you’d like – it’s totally up to you!
We are currently looking for people to help with the following jobs:
• Baking
• Selling food/tickets at movie night
• Postering flyers around school
• Photocopying/Data entry
• Finding sponsors for events
• Fun Fair games
• Photographer for various events
• Graphic Design help
• Set up/Clean up at events
If you have any special skills and/or talents that you would like to put to good use – let us know, so we can call on you!
If you are interested in helping to better the Roden community, please email getinvolved@roden.ca with your name, contact email address and provide any specific volunteer interest. Volunteers will be emailed when specific jobs are needed.
In addition, parent representatives are needed by the School for the following:
Safe school
Budget
Staffing
School Improvement
Please contact Mr. Lasso, our principal, directly for information on the above four volunteer positions.
Your help is very much needed and appreciated!
It’s Your Turn
Since 2014, Roden School Council has run a year-end Fun Fair. Each year has been tremendously successful having raised over $12,000 for our kids and creating an enormous amount of fun and school spirit.
The fairs haven’t been easy to pull off though. In previous years, we’ve relied on the considerable efforts of a small group parents, which has proven to be exhausting and unsustainable.
This is where YOU come in.
Yes, you.
If the Fun Fair is going to happen in June 2016, we need you to volunteer some of your time to make our fair successful and to fill our children with school spirit. Being on the Fun Fair team doesn’t mean long hours or endless meetings. We’re looking for a BIG team of people who can each take on a SMALL task so that together, we can pull off the biggest and best Fun Fair our school has ever seen. It’s such a great way to end the school year and the students love it!
Here’s an idea of roles we’re looking to fill:
* Generating ideas by attending a meeting or two
* Graphic design
* Hanging posters in the neighbourhood
* Promotion on social media & other local media outlets
* Find monetary sponsorship (If we had 10 people find one sponsor we’d be laughing)
* Find vendors for face painting, balloons and other activities
* Food (plan menus, find food sponsors and vendors)
* Find Entertainment
* Equipment rental (bouncy castles, rock climbing wall, etc)
* Games (generating ideas and finding supplies)
* Administrative things (photocoying, data entry, spreadsheet tracking, etc)
* Prizes (generate ideas and find donations)
* General running around (shop basic supplies, pick up prizes, etc)
* Recognition (print certificates and coordinate delivery after the event)
* Recruit volunteers for event day
In many cases, these roles can be split, so partner up with a friend!
We’re counting on YOU.
E-mail us at chair@roden.ca to confirm your interest in joining the Fun Fair Team OR look for the sign up sheet in the main office.
Help wanted
Roden.ca needs your help.
Do you know html or WordPress? If you can donate an hour or two of your time occasionally then please contact communications@roden.ca.
This site is run by parents for parents. Please consider lending your skills to support our school community.
Learning About Social Responsibility First Hand
Once again this year, our school together with the support of the Roden school council will participate in the local community food drive for the Glen Rhodes Food Bank. Mr. Mighton and the grade 8 students along with Ms. Vacrinos and the JK/SK students will be working on signs to help promote the event.
This is an excellent opportunity for all students to learn about social responsibility and to participate first hand, by helping to shop for and to deliver the food donation items to the school.
The drive will run from December 1-15th and food donations can be dropped off in the main lobby or in the JK/SK area.
The foods most needed are:
Thank you in advance for your support.