Our Nutrition Program Could Use Your Help

Q: What is a sea monsters favorite snack?
A: Ships and dip

Ba Dum Tsh

Speaking of snacks… can we talk about our snack program for a minute? This year, our nutrition program did an incredible pivot in order to keep providing nutrition for our students. Our program has always relied on funding from both grants and family donations, and now that the tweaked program is in full swing we could use a little help from our school community. If you are financially able to, please consider a monetary contribution to help us continue to run the snack program. The suggested donation is $1/day or $20/month, but as always, any amount is appreciated. Regardless of family donations, all children will continue to be offered a morning snack.

Payment (monthly or yearly) can be made online or by cheque to the Toronto Foundation for Student Success at the addresses listed below. The school office and classrooms can’t accept payments for this program. Tax receipts will be issued for any donation over $10.00.

To contribute to our nutrition program, you can donate online (choose 4 – Student Nutrition Programs under the Fund option and enter Earl Haig Public School in the message box) or by cheque. Cheque donations can be sent directly to the foundation. If you’re mailing in the donation, please complete the nutrition program donation form for 2020-2021 and send it to:

Toronto Foundation for Student Success
Attn: Finance Dept.
2 Trethewey Drive
3rd floor Annex
Toronto, ON
M6M 4A8

Our nutrition program is a success thanks to your generous support. We welcome your comments and suggestions by email to the nutrition program committee.

Thank you for your help!

Meeting Follow-Up + Equity Resources

We had a great discussion with Shayle Graham from the TDSB equity committee at our SAC meeting earlier this week about discrimination and racism. For anyone who wasn’t able to join us on Tuesday, Shayle provided us with some links to further resources to help parents and caregivers continue these conversations with our children. We’ve shared these below.

Earl Haig and our SAC will continue to work towards our equity goal and there are a number of initiatives in the works on that front. We will keep you posted as information is available.

Protecting and promoting human rights and addressing discrimination in our schools

Talking about race and racism with children

Selecting and rating titles for social justice books

Pink Shirt Day

Bullying is a major problem in our schools, workplaces, homes, and online. Pink Shirt Day aims to raise awareness of these issues, as well as raise funds to support programs that foster children’s healthy self-esteem. 

Earl Haig PS will be participating in Pink Shirt Day tomorrow, Wednesday, February 24th. If you have a chance, please consider encouraging your child to wear a pink shirt (or mask?) tomorrow to take a stand against bullying and to stand up for their peers.