WASTE FREE LUNCH WEEK
OCT. 16-20 IS WASTE REDUCTION WEEK
From Monday, Oct. 16th to Friday, Oct. 20th, Huron is promoting Canada’s Waste Reduction Week (for more information: http://www.wrwcanada.com/en). As a platinum EcoSchool (the highest environmental certification level at the T.D.S.B.), we are trying a new campaign: Encouraging students to bring no waste lunches – through reusable containers, water bottles, whole fruits and other waste free snack and lunch ideas (please see the attached file on Waste Free Lunches). Our EcoTeam of grade 4-6 leaders made presentations in all the grade 1-6 classrooms Friday about sorting compost, recycling and landfill items correctly, and about waste free lunch. They will present next week to the kindergarten classes. The goal is to build awareness of ways we can reduce the amount of landfill, and to promote proper sorting of materials. We will do a lunchroom audit one day next week to see if items are correctly sorted by students in the recycling and compost bins.
Huron also will continue our boomerang lunch tradition. This means that whatever a student brings to school for lunch comes back home with no waste put in garbage cans OR recycling bins. We will still compost any food scraps like orange peels. During the week, students’ lunches will be checked one day to see if they earn a waste free stamp. We realize this initiative takes a lot of family support – so thank you in advance for trying to make lunches as waste free as you can this next week, and in the future.
PHOTO DAY
Tuesday October 17th is our PHOTO DAY. Individual and class photos will be taken today, with our retake day scheduled for Wed. Nov. 8th. The advice from the photography company is for a light coloured shirt to be worn for the photographs…and of course a great smile is necessary too.
LOST AND FOUND
After only a few weeks our Lost and Found has quite a collection! As usual we have a wonderful selection of clothing, but we also have about 15 water bottles, a dozen lunch bags, a bike helmet, 2 baseball gloves… Please check Lost and Found regularly and take home items that belong to you.
FLU SEASON – MESSAGE FROM TORONTO PUBLIC HEALTH
Please see the attached letter from Toronto Public Health in regards to “Tips to Stay Healthy This Flu Season”.
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