Students at Queen Elizabeth Elementary raised $571 during their Terry Fox Run in September while over at Queensborough Middle School students raised $1,568.
At École Lord Tweedsmuir Elementary School folks raised nearly $4,000 for the foundation. The kids at Connaught Heights Elementary School raised more than $187 for the Terry Fox Foundation. At a school with 158 students that’s more than $1 per student.
And over at F.W. Howay Elementary School, staff and students raised $220 for the Terry Fox Foundation during their run.
Fraser River Middle School students raised $525 for the foundation.
Students at École Glenbrook Middle School didn’t too bad either. They raised more than $5,700 for the Terry Fox Foundation through a number of different fundraisers, including bake sales and a “Toonie for Terry” day held every Tuesday for about a month.
“One student took it up a notch and brought her teacher a toonie every day of the campaign. If she missed a day, she doubled up the next day,” Glenbrook vice-principal Tu Loan Trieu wrote in an email to the Record.
Because the students raised so much money for the foundation, teachers were on the hook for a few out-of-the-box rewards.
For hitting $1,000, the top fundraisers got to toss a pie in their teachers’ faces (Trieu included), and for reaching $2,000 the class that raised the most money got to throw dodgeballs at the teachers, but the most sought-after reward (and one they surpassed by more than $700) was the $5,000 prize.
For raising more than $5,700, one of Glenbrook’s teachers agreed to shave his head.
“This is the most money the school has raised and I’m hoping this will be something we will be known for: top fundraising school in the district,” Trieu wrote.
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