Many Totara 3 students are keen skateboarders. We are lucky to have some ramps in our playground at school however because of the increased popularity of skateboarding we no longer have enough to cater for the number of students who wish to use them. The Skate Crew decided that this was a problem and spoke to Mrs P about what could be done. Then a plan was formed.
First a letter was written to our Principal Mrs O asking for permission to fundraise, design and build some more ramps for the playground. She gave us the go ahead and so Totara 3 decided to make it a class project. We elected a project manager - thanks Geordie and then dived straight in.
Stage one: Raise the funds.
Our first fundraising project took place on the last day of term 1. We held a sausage sizzle at school where students could purchase drinks for 50 c and sausages for $2. We were very fortunate that the school had some leftover sausages from previous fundraisers that we could use and we were also generously donated some. To prepare for our fundraising event the project manager and his team had to estimate how many sausages we would need, how many loaves of bread, cups, serviettes, tomato sauce, drink etc.
Once we had done this we created a grocery list and purchased our supplies. We also advertised our fundraiser in the school newsletter and were thrilled with the response.
On the day we formed cooperative groups and every group had a job to do. Some children collated orders, some prepared bread and drinks, some counted the money, some cooked the sausages and then we all served. It was a hectic couple of hours but well worth it.
The fundraiser was a great success and we raised over $500 to start off our project. Our next step is to meet with a skateboard ramp design expert and formulate a plan. We can then cost our materials and assess if we need to fundraise more money.
Watch this space for stage 2.
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