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Spring Yard Day

You are invited to Runnymede’s Spring Yard Day!

Runnymede’s Spring Yard Day and Earth Day Celebration is on Saturday, April 21 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Runnymede families are invited to this great event to celebrate Earth Day and help clean up the schoolyard. Our event this year also coincides with Toronto Community Clean-Up Day, so come out and pitch-in!

This year’s event will have more great kids’ activities than ever:

  • NEW – Kids can swap an old book for a new one at our BOOK SWAP! (limit one book per child please)
  • NEW – Take our Earth Day Pledge, created by Runnymede’s Green Team
  • Art activities
  • Face-painting
  • FREE outdoor concert by native dance and culture group Tribal Vision
  • BBQ lunch (Rowe hot dogs $1, fruit/veggies $1)

While the kids have some fun, we have lots of yard work to do. Please bring your pails, shovels, brooms and wheelbarrows, and lots of muscle power. Remember your own coffee cups, water bottles and nut-free baking contributions to share mid-morning.

The Yard Committee would like to thank the Spirit and Arts & Enrichment Committees for contributing to this great school event.

Questions? Please contact Sarah Frame.

We look forward to seeing you and your family at Spring Yard Day!

Get Ready for Pub Night!

Circle your calendars and book your babysitters! We’re very excited to announce  the 6th annual Parent Pub Night on May 4 at Earth (Jane & Bloor).  Advance pub night tickets are available now for $20 through forms sent home with students, or by emailing Shannon.pritchard@sympatico.ca. This event always gets rave reviews – don’t miss it!

Need more incentive than a really fun night out with friends and sans kids? Check out some of the amazing silent auction items we have on tap for the night:

  • Gap jeans
  • Jillian Maddin Jewellery
  • Think Fitness – personal training, unlimited classes for 2 weeks
  • 1 month membership at Boulevard Club
  • Gift certificate to new local restaurant “Camp”
  • Beaver Valley ski club family weekend – $600.00 value
  • Massage at Pivot
  • Polar heart rate monitor
  • Kids’ mountain bike
  • Westside Fun Camp
  • Toronto FC tickets
  • Lole coat
  • RPM 1 month unlimited classes
  • System fitness 3-month membership and 1 personal training session
  • A Motorola Razr smart phone
  • A Samsung Galaxy IIS smart phone
  • 4 Blue Jays tickets (1st base)
  • iPod Nano

We’re also planning a “wine raffle” so bring a bottle of wine on the night of the pub. We will have a drop off table and you can buy raffle tickets for two chances to win half of the wine donated.

See you there!

Spring Thaw a Huge Success

Last Thursday’s Spring Thaw: JK-3 Art Show and FUNdraiser was a huge success. We are still working on the final fundraising tally but by all accounts the event blew our expectations out of the water. Thank you to our LARGE number of student and parent volunteers, without whom this event would not be possible. Families came in droves to the event to participate in a great number of fun activities: 

  • Eat yummy subs, sushi, samosas, fruit and cupcakes
  • Watch all the fabulous videos documenting the process of the art making
  • Get their faces painted
  • Make hats, photo frames, BUTTONS, custom decals, bookmarks, colouring sheets
  • Have their nails painted 
  • Try their luck at the famous lollipop tree (we went through about 700 lollipops!)
  • Decorate cookies with icing and sprinkles (even home-made gluten-free cookies on hand!) 
  • Participate in the “Guess the number of Beads” contest
  • Find out more about Runnymede’s Special Education program
  • Sign a petition about High Park Zoo closing
  • Browse art books in the library 
  • Bid on amazing artwork, front-row seats to upcoming concerts and art camp in the Silent Auction
  • Find out more about Pub Night, Art Cards, and Mabel’s Labels
  • …and of course, check out the fabulous art made by our very own JK-3 children! Here are some photos of just some of the incredible artwork produced by our kids.