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Monday, February 08, 2010 • 10:45 pm


Sawmill Creek Elementary School Launches RIGHT TO PLAY Campaign
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Sport has the power to change the world. Sawmill Creek Elementary school students believe that, and will launch their year long campaign in partnership with “Right to Play” organization.

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Sport has the power to change the world. Sawmill Creek Elementary school students believe that, and will launch their year long campaign in partnership with “Right to Play” organization. The “Right to Play” organization aims to raise awareness of sport as an innovative tool for addressing critical development issues, such as the lack of basic education, and health information, and the impact of conflict.

On Thursday September 27, the students and staff of Sawmill Creek Elementary will be decorating red balloons similar to the red ball that “Right to Play” uses to encourage healthy, holistic child development, through educational play. The students and staff will be releasing red balloons into the air to show their commitment as a school community to look after one another throughout the upcoming school year.

The “Right to Play” organization has been using the red ball symbol, to represent its mandate since 2002. For the first time the red balls will be available for sale, at Adidas outlets world-wide.  This global initiative is to create awareness of the organization and the important role of sport for development in some of the most disadvantaged areas around the world.

Sawmill Creek Elementary, Vice-Principal Merrill Mathews says the message being sent to his students, and to everyone in the city is that we must take care of each other and ourselves.  On Thursday, September 27, the students and staff will be working in their Cross Graded Teams, which are mixed groups of students from grades 1 to 8, and led by Grade 7 and 8 students, and a staff mentor.  They will be talking about, and understanding the importance in preventing bullying before it happens - by looking out for one another


 

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