We’re thrilled to host our fourth Community Book Fair,where students can shop for gently loved books, puzzles and games at amazing prices.
There will be separate book fairs at each campus on May 8th.
Books and puzzles will be priced between $1 – $5.
To make this event a success, we need your help! Please consider donating gently-used books, as well as complete puzzles or games. Your donations will give our kids an opportunity to find new reading treasures while supporting our school. This new format also aligns with our commitment to Green initiatives, by encouraging reuse and reducing waste.
What we need: Gently-used books, puzzles, and games (complete sets only please!)
Where to drop them off: Donations can be dropped of at the Royal side entrance of Junior Campus, just outside the office.
When: Donations are accepted starting today!
Volunteers Needed
Support needed for triage, sorting and setup at both Senior and Junior campus
Be part of the plot – volunteer for the Book Fair!
Willingdon Home & School represents over 75 years of history. Seventy-five years of parents making a difference. This remarkable continuity exists because, generation after generation, families chose to get involved.
Now, we need you. The torch is ready to be passed, with full support from outgoing members, plus tools, guides, and years of experience to help you succeed. And while the foundation is strong, there is always room for new ideas, new energy, and new events to keep our community growing and evolving.
If you’ve ever appreciated an event, a moment, or an initiative at Willingdon… you’ve already seen the impact of Home & School. Join us in continuing this story and help shape what comes next.
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.
