Media Release - June 16, 2008
EYE SPY ENDS IN A TIE!!
Interactive, on-line contest has a phenomenal 12,462 entries in the 5 day contest!! School District 6 & 8 each
had 6,231 entries last week in the EYE SPY WHAT’S RIGHT EVENT!! Students, teachers and members of the community in School Districts 6 & 8 went to the EYE SPY website in droves to TELL US WHAT’S RIGHT with the WORLD… the response has been incredible and overwhelming! The contest, which ran from May 26th – 30th, and closed at 5:00 pm on Friday, is part of our Celebrate What’s Right with the World initiative. How did it work?
Between May 26th and May 30th, students, staff and members of the community logged in to our EYE SPY WHAT’S RIGHT website and told us something that is RIGHT with the world! Everyone who participated will be eligible for prizes, and the participation has been incredible! School, Staff & Community Prizes to be Awarded!
The elementary school, middle school and high school in each school district with the greatest participation will win the EYE SPY WHAT’S RIGHT Trophy! Congratulations to our Trophy winning schools:
Winning High School ~ PALS Hampton
Winning Middle School ~ Sussex Middle School
Winning Elementary School ~ Kennebecasis Park Elementary School There will be random draws so that one student from each grade level in every school will win an EYE SPY WHAT’S RIGHT prize! School staff and members of the community will also be eligible for prizes! These winners will be announced later this week. Here is a breakdown of the percentages of participation:
Students 86%, School Staff, 11%, Community 3% Samples of Celebrations
Here are some samples from the EYE SPY WHAT’S RIGHT entries we’ve received…from students, staff & the community…
(there are 12,000+ more entries than this, if you can imagine!)
“When my daughters look at the sea of dandilions growing on our lawn, they do not consider them to be pesky weeds. Instead they see beautiful flowers worthy of making into bouquets, flower crowns and simply to observe.”
“WHAT IS RIGHT IN MY WORLD IS THAT MY MOM AND DAD (AND ME TOO), FOSTER AND HELP KIDS THAT NEED A SAFE PLACE TO STAY.”
“I am celebrating Mr. Martell because he's our best teacher out of all Canada.”
“pam drury is our guidance counsellor. she has over 600 students to help when they are having a bad day and what is so great, she is always available.”
“halping the world from plooting”
“we are having butterflys in our classroom”
“The Rhythm of Nature”
“EYE SPY WHAT'S RIGHT CONTEST is what's right with the world.”
“I'm celebrating being healthy, gaining my energy and life back after a session with chemo treatments for cancer.”
“When I read the notes sent home with my daughter inviting me to participate in "Eye Spy What's Right With the World", I knew I had the perfect opportunity to share a recent experience I had. My daughter, Kelsey Hanrahan, attends Centennial Elementary in the North End. Being a kind, beautiful and sometimes very stubborn child, she insisted on a Sunday just recently that she was going to have a juice stand. I knew there was no getting around this because it was the last words out of her mouth before she went to sleep and the first, the next morning when she woke up. Taking me aside, my husband said that he didn't know if this was such a good idea. He remembered as a little boy being disappointed and broken-hearted when he had decided to have a juice stand. He ended up sitting for hours waiting for people to come and he didn't want his own daughter possibly suffering the same fate. "Maybe we should try to talk her out of it" he said. It was decided then. Kelsey would have her juice stand. We went down to the dollar store when it opened at noon and she bought, with her own money, paper cups and a table cloth. Then, we stopped at the corner store and purchased some ice-cubes. We set up the piano bench with the table cloths over it, outside. The customers could choose apple or grape juice at 25 cents a cup. Her first customers were the people upstairs-she made a dollar. Ten minutes later she came in and asked me if she could move the stand to the front street. A ladt had been walking by and suggested she might do better there. Her father moved the stand to the front street and we went back inside. I wondered how Kelsey was doing. It was hot outside and I hoped she wasn't getting discouraged. About half an hour later I decided to check and as I turned the corner, she's sitting at her stand. "Oh! Hi Mommy, guess how much money I made?" "How much?" I asked thinking a dollar or two. "Eight dollars!" she grinned. "You're lying!" I laughed. "No really" she said and she counted it our before my very eyes. "One old lady drove by in a car and gave me two dollars and when I asked her what kind of juice she wanted she told me "That's okay dear. You take that." After two hours of customers (three stopped in cars and I saw many of our neighbors), she had made a total of nine dollars and seventy five cents. As proud as I am for my daughter for working hard and earning her own money, I am just as proud of my community and the people in it. There is a "common good" in all people and I saw it that day. Submitted by Cathy Hanrahan”
About School District 6
District 6 has approximately 10,340 students in twenty-four schools and two alternate education centers in the communities of Sussex, Sussex Corner, Apohaqui, Norton, Belleisle, Hampton, Kingston, Quispamsis, and Rothesay. There are over 650 teachers in the District, and additional support staff. The district Office is located in Rothesay.
The mission at School District 6 is to work in partnership with parents and the community to create a safe, nurturing learning environment that provides a high quality education which prepares all students to be productive, well-rounded, life-long learners. About School District 8
School District 8 encompasses the City of Saint John and rural communities from Browns Flat and Grand Bay-Westfield to Fundy Shores to St. Martins. Our 35 schools include 17 Elementary, 8 Kindergarten to 8, 5 Middle Schools, 4 High Schools and 1 Alternate Education Center. We are the second largest school district in the province of New Brunswick with over 13,000 students. The Mission of School District 8 is to provide, responsibly and cooperatively, all students with the opportunity for learning, to a measurable standard, through quality instruction in a safe environment. Contact Information
Joan Wilkins
CELEBRATE what's RIGHT Coordinator
School District 8
Saint John, NB
(506) 643-6884
(506) 639-6087 (Cell)
Email: joan.wilkins@nbed.nb.ca
Kim Houlahan
Celebrate What’s RIGHT
Community Coordinator
School District 6
Rothesay, NB
(506) 848-6626
email: kim.houlahan@nbed.nb.ca
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