As TSAW approaches, we want to take a moment to highlight just how incredible our teachers and staff truly are. They are creative, patient, dedicated, and honestly… a little bit magical. Every day, they turn classrooms full of big ideas, big feelings, and a whole lot of energy into spaces of learning, art, and belonging. And somehow, they also manage our lovable little gremlins — brilliant, funny, sweet… and delightfully chaotic.
TSAW is the perfect time to celebrate these amazing humans who give so much to our kids, even when those kids are enthusiastically stress-testing the laws of noise, gravity, and patience.
Let’s Fill the Boards — Every Note Counts!
As part of Teacher & Staff Appreciation Week, we’re inviting families to share a short message of appreciation for our amazing Willingdon staff — from parents or in your child’s own words.
💬 2 to 3 sentences. ⏱️ Under 2 minutes. 💛 Big impact.
Our goal? Completely full appreciation boards at both campuses. Let’s see how many notes we can collect — and yes, we know Willingdon can rise to a challenge.
Short, sweet, funny, heartfelt, misspelled-by-a-kid… all welcome. If it made you smile, it’ll make them smile.
Got more than one kind word? Multiple entries (Jr and/or Sr Campus) are encouraged.
We’ve filled the boards, now let’s fill some plates.
As part of Teacher & Staff Appreciation Week, we’re hosting our annual potluck lunch Thursday, Feb 12 for Willingdon staff, and we’d love your help to make it delicious.
Families are invited to sign up to contribute a dish — homemade, store-bought, or lovingly assembled all count. Every contribution helps create a warm, generous lunch that truly shows our appreciation for the incredible work our teachers and staff do every day.
If cooking isn’t your thing or time is tight, a monetary contribution is also welcome and will be used to purchase food for the potluck.
We also need a few helping hands on the day of the lunch.
Volunteers are needed to help with set-up, serving, and clean-up to make the potluck run smoothly. Shifts are short, support is appreciated, and no prior experience is required — just a willingness to help.
If you’re available, we’d love to have you join us.
TSAW is coming up in February — our favourite week of showering Willingdon’s amazing teachers and staff with all the love, snacks, caffeine, and appreciation they can handle. ❤️✨
We’re looking for one enthusiastic volunteer to take the lead on this year’s event. Don’t worry — we have past templates, and lots of support. We just need someone ready to sprinkle kindness like confetti.
If you’re interested, we’d love to schedule a quick call to walk you through all the details.
We’re getting ready to welcome future Willingdon families, and we need a few superstar parents to help our student tour guides shine. Volunteers will greet visitors, keep groups moving, and sprinkle a little “Willingdon magic” around junior campus.
If you can smile, walk, and gently herd humans in the right direction, you’re already qualified.
Help us show new families why this community is something special.
It’s nearly time to show that Willingdon community spirit again! Because when compassion and community connect, real change happens. So, let’s come together to donate non-perishables, to be collected and distributed by Carolyn’s Community.
What do I bring?
Here are some suggestions for items to donate. Please try to keep in mind that a wider variety of healthy items is always best.
Staples (tea, coffee, condiments like ketchup and mayo, etc.)
Why is this important?
The food drive is an excellent opportunity to teach our kids about food insecurity — and not just globally but right here in our own community. There will be visual trackers to measure how much we’ve collected around the school so that students can track our collective progress and to encourage them to get involved in giving back locally.
We need volunteers
Before, during and after…
We need two volunteers at junior and one at senior to put up the posters and tracker on Monday March 31st. Also need that volunteer to update the posters on the boxes that are kept in home and school and in the science room.
The week of the Food Drive, we need 2 volunteers daily at junior campus, and one at senior campus (week of April 7th) to bring down the food from each floor into the cafeteria, count the cans, sort and store. Also update the chart with the amount of cans representing the number of food items collected. Volunteer would need to arrive at 9;30 so as to give the kids enough time to put their donations in the boxes and enough time to count, sort and put away before lunch time.
Monday April 14th, when the pick ups will be, we need two volunteers at junior at 9:00 to help divide up the stuff into groupings for pick up. One volunteer to pick up everything at senior that is stored and bring to junior at 10;00.
We need a group 8 grade 5 & 6 parents to help transport instruments from Junior Campus to Royal Vale School on April 23rd as of 1pm, and assembly of the rafters.
We also need 8 grade 5 & 6 parents to help take down the rafters and transport instruments back to Junior Campus after the concert on Thursday, the 24th.
Volunteers will have reserved seating for the concert
We need a team to take the lead on planning Teacher and Staff Appreciation Week (Feb 10 – 14). If you’re interested in getting involved, please sign-up below and we’ll put you all in touch with one another in the near future.
