The content of the email is listed below. Please let us know if you have any questions. We are so proud of each and everyone of you!
If you get a chance, go to some older posts so that you can view some of the PSAs the students did, and you can also see a few pictures from our pasta dinner we held in April.
Dear Relay Team Members,
Thank you to students and parents for attending the Relay For Life informational meeting held this afternoon and for those of you who could not make it, here are the key points:
- Schedule of Events
§ Relay is a community-wide event. Relay is a walking event where we need to have at least one pod member on the track walking at all times.
§ Relay begins with Opening Ceremonies at 1pm on Saturday and ends at 6:00am on Sunday morning.
§ It will be a fun event; in addition to walking the track there will be events and contests that will be going on all day and night long.
§ Tent set up (for those spending the night) - between 12 and 12:30pm. Parents, please help with tent set up.
§ The Relay event begins with the Opening Ceremonies at 1pm, Survivor’s Lap kicks off the Relay followed by the Caregiver’s Lap; thereafter, everyone will join in.
§ 9:00pm – Remembrance Ceremony and Luminaria
§ 6:00am – Sunday morning – pick up by parents – home to bed!
- Rules for staying the night – Mr. McEwen, Mrs. Cook will be staying the night with students. To stay, you will need to have raised at least $30, unless your parent is planning to stay with you overnight. You also need a permission slip and youth participation agreement signed by a parent. Forms are available in Mrs. Cook’s room. These forms were given out at the relay meeting on Tuesday, May 3.
- Rules for coming and not staying the night – you must leave by 11pm, unless a parent is there with you. Please let us know if you plan to do this. If your parent is dropping you off and picking you up at a later time, you need a note, signed by your parent. Notes are necessary for any back and forth movement. This is for safety reasons.
- We organized into ‘Pods’ at our meeting. If you are not in a pod, please find a pod, or see Mr. McEwen or Mrs. Cook. Each Pod is made up of at least one student who is bringing a tent, along with those who will share quarters with them. Boys with boys, girls with girls.
- ‘Pod’ Responsibilities
§ Each Pod needs a name and name banner– we have a contest for the most creative Pod name
§ Each Pod should bring snacks and water
§ Each Pod needs to sign up for times to walk. See Mr. McEwen to sign up for your time(s) for walking. Remember…there must be someone from our Venturer/Navigator team at all times on the track
§ Each Pod should have a tarp for set up under the tent, in case it rains
§ Each Pod should help with Luminaria placement after 8pm
§ Each Pod should sign up for a time to help man our Relay Sales Booth
§ Please plan to bring your folding chairs, coolers, pop-up canopies, in addition to your sleeping bags
- Dinner
Although concession items may be available for purchase, we will be taking orders in advance for pizza to be provided by Ricardo’s. If Pods want to participate, whole pizza 10-slice pies can be purchased in advance for $7.00. An order form is at the end of this email. Bring money and the form for your pizza dinner to either Mrs. Cook or Mr. McEwen. Please have this in by Wednesday, May 18th.
7. Booths for selling items at Relay – be thinking about the things we could sell. Ideas were popcorn, bracelets, marshmallows, snow cones. We will talk more about this in the coming week. If you have an idea, please come by and talk with Mr. McEwen or Mrs. Cook! We already have a great idea from a student selling foam fingers! Awesome!
- Personal Items – toothbrush, spare clothes/shoes/flip flops
8. Parental help – we need your help! Please email Mrs. Cook or Mr. McEwen and me if you are willing to help out
§ Tent set up – 12-12:30pm
§ Adults on duty between 9pm and midnight
§ Adults to spend the night
§ Adults to help with clean up, disassembly of tent city around 5:30am Sunday morning.
Thank you all for participating. Your participation is helping to support the fight against cancer. Pod groups are included in a chart below. Let us know if there are changes or corrections that need to be made. If your name is not listed, see to it that you are joining a pod!
Thanks….Mr. McEwen and Mrs. Cook….
Pod Groups:
6th Grade | |||||||||
Pod Name | Tent Provider | ||||||||
Paul Kemp | Adam | Nicholas | Patrick B | Jordan F | Evan Arents | ||||
Hayley M. | Maria D | Abby Bender | Krystyna | ||||||
Diane | Alice | ||||||||
Kallia | Elizabeth | Emma W | Emma J | Kiera | Sarah L | ||||
Amazing R | Jackie | Gabby | Isabel R | Sarah Z | |||||
The Sleep Walker | Preston | Cameron L | Cabell | Coleman | Christopher | Ryan | Danny | ||
Sarah M | Kiersen | Lara | Blair | Caroline | |||||
Cameron D | Maggie P | Antonia | Sara F | Kristina | |||||
Thing 1/2 | Kate C | Emmie | Mandy | Hannah | Sarah M | Paige | Lauren I | ||
7th Grade | |||||||||
Sam | Michael | Noah | |||||||
Soapfaces | Carolyn Stough | Katie Rose | Emily VanDoornik | Savannah Quick | Olivia Staub | Abigail Staub | Faith Hodges | Patricia McCabe | Tessa Delano |
Tess | Abbey C | Kate R | Lorin R | Anna D | |||||
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Joey | Robbie | Billy F | Evan | ||||||
8th Grade | |||||||||
Michaela Nee | Alyssa Harvie | ||||||||
