We are all delighted to begin our holiday break and this past week has been particularly festive and spirited! Our STUDCO Team put on a full week of holiday spirit building activities and in the previous week our Business Entrepeneurship class under Mr. Tarantino's leadership had some serious "business...in the street." All activities generated over $500.00 for the Chum City's Children Wish Campaign. Our "Ridge Cares" Parent Team spent a morning wrapping "gift packages" for 17 students in our school, who will be very surprised to receive such a well considered "act of kindness" from many members of our parents, caregivers and school community. Today we celebrated with a fantastic schoolwide assembly hosted by STUDCO and COMMCO. Of course, we could hardly wait for the reveal of our annual student holiday video - written, produced and directed by the very talented members of Ms. Olmsted's COMMCO class, with terrific performances by STUDCO members and additional IRHS students and one very, cute IRHS "dog!" This year's video was one of the most professional holiday videos I have ever seen...a terrific storyline, with Santa getting particularly silly with the elves and making some great visits to local businesses in the Oakville area... all in the "quest" for a new sleigh. Great job by all of our students involved in this, and exceptional work by Mac Calistan and Sam Lehner, who were integral leaders of this video production. The assembly was full of fun and audience participation by both students and staff, very interactive with some surprises, for sure!
Thanks everyone for supporting this student led event. We were very pleased with the outcome. So, as we begin to wind down our day today, on behalf of our admin team (Kate, Peter and I) and staff we wish all the members of our "Ridge Family" the very best for a wonderful and restful holiday season. We also wish you the very best for a happy and successful 2013! Take care everyone...we will see you on January 7th!
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