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Summit students donate books to Quebec Heights Elementary
December 4, 2011
Quebec Heights Elementary School Principal Ted Jebens, left, guides fourth graders in loading a truck with about 1,000 books collected by students at The Summit Country Day School.
Fourth graders at The Summit Country Day School on Friday loaded up about 1,000 gently-used and new books they collected to send to Quebec Heights Elementary School.
The collection was in response to a report that students at the Price Hill school may not get personal reading books next year because Reading in Fundamental (RIF) has been cut from next year’s federal budget. RIF allows students to pick out books they want and take them home to keep.
“It is important to help the students at Quebec Heights because everyone should have the chance to read good books,” says fourth grader Sarah Sutton.
The book collection resonated in particular with fourth-grade students who selected “Responsibility” as the character trait they want to emphasize this year as part of The Summit’s year-long “Honor in Action” theme.
“The book drive really helped us expand our responsibility,” said fourth grader Anna Penticuff. “We had to tell the younger grades to bring in books, and then collect all the books. Bringing in the books helps students at Quebec Heights because it gives them more chances to learn. Reading is about 60% of my life and I would like them to be able to read as much as they want and not have to re-read books all the time.”
While the fourth graders led the initiative, students in every classroom of the Lower School and students in Language Arts classes in the Middle School contributed books. In addition, a collection was taken at a recent Book Fair for new books.
