Chapters Night

I'm very excited for next Tuesday night. Chapters will be hosting a fundraiser for us and helping to support us as we build the library collection. On Tuesday the 20th, the Chapters at the corner of Bovaird and Hurontario, in Brampton will host an artwork display by our students. Families are invited to visit the display and to purchase items from the store. 15% of the sales from that evening will be donated to Lagerquist in the form of a Chapters gift card. This is so important for us we really need to build up our collection. Here's the link to our adopt a school . This site gives all the information about our library collection, its age and our need to build the collection we have. Families can also purchase e-gift cards from the site that will also contribute to donations from Chapters.


Hopefully, lots of families will come out that night and help support the library and the work we're doing. I've been going over the artwork and it's fantastic. I'm sure parents will be impressed with the quality of work we'll put on display that night.

See everyone there!

Dare Arts and Aboriginal Schools

Dare Arts And the Dare to Draw Program

This year R.H. Lagerquist students participated in the Dare to Draw program. The program is aimed at teaching students social awareness and giving them an opportunity to help others out through art. 

Dare Arts has paired with Aboriginal schools in northern Ontario in the hopes of raising awareness about the condition of these schools. Here's a description of the program borrowed from their website.

In the ‘DARE to Draw Attention’ program, children are dared to create original darearts cards in their schools to draw attention to serious issues affecting children. The kids choose their medium - from paint, pencil crayons, pastels to a variety of other mediums. They then sell their cards at a suggested donation of $5 each. Schools are given the option to sell the cards themselves, holding onto $2 per card to help support their own activities, or to return the cards to darearts to be sold to individuals and corporations.

We have displayed and sold our cards during open house night and also during parent/teacher interview night. I've taken some photos of our cards and the display boards students made. Students are very excited about the project and have been very enthusiastic about getting their parents to purchase their artwork and make then into real artists who sell their work. Thanks to everyone who bought cards I will let you know when the large display happens with all the other schools here in Ontario.

Canadian Geographic recently covered the school and housing crisis facing nothern reserves.