Cardboard City Thurs Sept 27th – Fri Sept 28th

Cardboard City 

Thurs Sept 27th – Fri Sept 28th

St Gerard’s School

7:30pm

Dear Parents

On the final Thursday night of this term Room 6 students will be taking part in the annual St Gerards ‘Cardboard City’ as a follow up to Social Justice week. Cardboard City is an opportunity for the children to experience a small taste of some of the real-life conditions other children their age around the world face on a daily basis.  Hopefully it will help them to gain a greater thankfulness for the things we have – security, a warm bed to sleep in and good food to eat. We also hope it will encourage in them a greater generosity.

The children will come to school on Thursday night at 7:30pm having had dinner already. They will sleep outside the school library/staffroom area in cardboard boxes, will have a simple porridge breakfast and a rice meal for lunch. No other food or snacks are to be brought.

As with everything we do, we will need parents to stay the night.  No - you do not need to sleep in a cardboard box (but it would be great if you choose to!), a tent or a bedroll on the floor inside would be fine. Parents do not need to stay at school during the day on Friday but I would appreciate help with parents cooking the rice for lunch.  

On Friday all cardboard boxes must be taken home and equipment collected by 3pm. Please make arrangements for this to happen as we do not want things left here over the holidays!

The children will need to bring:

Cardboard box big enough to sleep in

Bedroll, warm sleeping bag, pillow

Warm clothes, woollen hat

Toilet bag – toothbrush, toothpaste, face cloth, hairbrush

Bowl, spoon and cup

Torch

NO electronics and NO cell phones

Any medication your child is on in a named bag handed to me please.

If you are able to stay the night, or can deliver some cooked rice to school for lunch on Friday please contact Mr Yeoman asap ollieyeoman@stgerards.school.nz

Thanks for your support

Mr Yeoman