Schools get behind Shelly Centre’s ‘We care You care’ project
Ten primary schools have got behind Shelly Centre's 'We Care You Care' project and have beautifully painted fabric shopping bags which will be sold at a minimum donation of R100 at the centre's pop-up shop from September 29 to October 28. All funds raised by the community will beused to purchase a classroom for Zenzeleni Creche in Izingolweni. Read what some of the schools have to say about the exciting project.
We are excited because not only will our pupils have an opportunity to showcase their creative talents, but they will also become aware of the importance of giving. This project has the possibility of leaving a long lasting impression on our learners and the community at large.
We cannot wait to visit the pop up shop in Shelly Centre.
Children from Jai Hind Primary show-off their hand painted bags.
Jai Hind Primary
Jai Hind Primary salutes the management and staff of Shelly Centre for the We Care You Care project. We are proud to be part of this community driven initiative. It was a wonderful opportunity for our learners to be involved in the production of the bags.
Jeff Dundraj, Principal.
Children from Jai Hind Primary with their bags.
Margate Primary
As the HOD of the Foundation Phase of Margate Primary School it has been a pleasure to work with Kirstin Rowbotham from Shelly Centre in the We Care You Care project. The children were very excited to participate and thoroughly enjoyed painting their bags. They felt very special because they were helping to raise funds to build a classroom for a rural school while having a lot of fun themselves.
Margate Primary School takes community service very seriously and we wish Shelly Centre all the best with this Community Project.
Thank you so much for allowing us to be involved in this wonderful campaign. It has been fun for our children, a tad stressful for out teachers, but above all, it has given us the opportunity to do something small for the others who have needs greater than our own.
It has been an honour for out school to print and embellish these lovely bags. Each child did his/her very best, with the intention of creating something special and unique which could be used to help other children.
We wish you every success with this project. We trust that our local community see your vision and we embrace this needy crèche beneficiary by purchasing every bag that was made.
Our bags were certainly made with love every step of the way.
The children and teachers at Cornerstone Learning Centre.
St Martin de Porres wants to place on record our gratitude for allowing the school and its pupils to participate in this worthy initiative. I firmly believe that both the educators and pupils thoroughly enjoyed this uplifting experience.
I am told from Nelly that our learners painted 15 bags. I do believe that they have learnt from this experience and will definitely use the skills they have acquired to further enjoy and build on this in their arts and crafts lessons.
Once again our heartfelt gratitude. I would also like to thank you for the invite and most definitely we will take you up on the opportunity to be a part of the opening of this shop.
Lastly we will most definitely cascade this to our parents and in our term newsletter.
Thank you so much for allowing the pupils of Hlangani Preparatory to take part in painting the calico bags. It was with great excitement and anticipation that we opened the boxes to find the fabric paint, stencils and rollers.
At a staff meeting we decided to do the painting in small groups as we do not have the necessary working space and facilities to tackle a large painting project where 200 pupils are involved.
Unfortunately, we could not involve all the pupils, and some of the little ones were most upset.
The excitement was plausible throughout the school. most of the pupils have never worked with fabric paint. Ideas were branded about the and books on sea animals flew out of the library.
The blue paint was especially popular even though we tried to entice the pupils to use green fabric paint. Pupils had learnt about mixing colours (and the colour wheel) in the Creative Arts lessons and some were soon experimenting with the mixing of paint, especially to get brown, purple and pink!
At Hlangani Preparatory we as teachers have tried to expose our pupils to as many skills as possible and the painting of the bags was a wonderful introduction to the use of fabric paint.
It was with great sadness when they learnt that they had to part with their creations, as not many understand the concept of giving back to a community.
As HOD of the Foundation Phase at Margate Primary, it has been a pleasure to work with Kirsten from Shelly Centre, on the We Care project. The children were very excited to participate and thoroughly enjoyed painting their bags. They felt very special because they were helping to raise funds to build a classroom for a rural school while having a lot of fun themselves.
Margate Primary takes community service very seriously and we wish Shelly Centre all the best with the project.
Shona Aylward is a vastly experienced journalist working as a senior reporter. Aside from her extensive community involvement and story writing, she is also involved in creative page layout, and the various media platforms. Shona began her career with Caxton at the Southlands Sun. Previous to this she worked in the marketing industry for surf magazines. Shona is a renown 'greenie' and champions environmental causes. She is also Mom to a number of dogs and cats, and the occasional uninvited snake. When she can find some spare time, it's usually to the beach that she heads.
