Manchester School’s Fourth Annual Community Day will be held on Mar. 29. The focus this year is helping the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
This integrated effort by the whole school focuses on helping the children become involved citizens through community projects and learning about real world issues.
Throughout the day the children will be able to display and teach other students as well as members of the outside community about what they have been working on. Also, there will be an assembly beginning at 9:45 a.m., and this year’s keynote speaker is Cindy Williams from Channel 6.
“The assembly is to honor the kids for all the hard work they have done,” says Angelica Blanchard, event organizer.
This year, the school raised more than $2,000 as well as collected animal food for pet relief and used books to help rebuild libraries that have been affected by flooding from the hurricanes. Some other projects were: collecting sneakers and sandals to send to Iraq, making homemade bird houses to place around the Windham community and making survival bins for the elderly in the hurricane areas. Students also staged their own Mardi Gras parade to highlight the problems New Orleans is still having and the video of the parade will be played back during Community Day.
Blanchard is amazed by what the community has done, “I think a lot more schools should do this type of event. For a small school, the amount of money we’ve raised as well as what we’ve donated is incredible. If more schools did this a lot could get done fast.”
-Tricia Leyendecker
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