Whew! Let the playing begin!

This photo was taken when the kids took a brief pause for supper and then came back to enjoy the new playground!

Beautiful memorial trees and the start of adding more garden spaces to the school.

Building a playground, building frienships, building a community.

Getting ready for build day tomorrow!

The excitement is building at the school!  (groan...ok, just had to!)  But it is true!  Tomorrow is our build day and volunteer crews have been getting the site ready.  Check out some photos.

The equipment arrives!

Just before ground is broken.

The preschool class watching the dump truck unload gravel (what excitment!)

Getting the base welded so we are ready to go tomorrow!

Fundraising Updates

We are getting so close to our fundraising goal!  The teachers, staff and their family members, parents and members from the village of Barons have been working very hard in the past few weeks to raise the money needed for our playground.  At the Tin Man Triathalon last weekend we raised $2400, and on the same day in Nobleford we made $1000 at the garage sale!  Our Burrito supper and gift basket raffle made $2200 and we collected $986 from our bottle drive! To date we have also made $700 selling beef jerky, so in the past three weeks we have raised $7286...Amaaaazing!  

We have been very appreciative of all of the donations from businesses and hope that a few more will help us out.  The countdown until build day sure is on and we will be at the Lethbridge Farmer's Market this Saturday, June 9th selling more beef jerky along with some tasty baked goods supplied by our wonderful parents!

We would also like the opportunity to mention that we have received $15 000 from the Lethbridge Community Foundation, $10 000 from parents and $32 286 from hot lunches over the past few years.  Can you even believe it?  

If you are curious, here is a link to a YouTube clip from the movie that has our school in the background! 

The Fundraising Continues...and the Superman movie set memorablia mystery continues...

Whew!  Where does time go?  This week we had another playground meeting but our teleconferencing was not working so instead we decided to check out the rumour that the signs from the Superman movie set were still in the school.  (Yes, it is true!  Barons School was used in the Superman movie!)  We didn't find any, but since we know the Barons Historical Society has the football we will have to check with them.  

This week more jobs were assigned and more corporate sponsorship funds were gladly accepted.  Tomorrow there will be a fundraising garage sale at 223 Highway Avenue in Nobleford and several teachers and their family members will be volunteering at the Tinman Triathalon in Vulcan to raise some funds as well.  It is going to be a fun day!