Fantastic news!!!!

The lovely people at ties 'n' cuffs custom made in NSW has very generously offered to donate 250 pins custom made with our logo. How amazing is that!!! Please feel free to leave a comment thanking them for their generosity.

Weekly round up

The letters arrived from Christchurch this week. Pls post your comments under the thanks room 7 Post.

3 east kids are making a logo for screen printing on bags. The logo looks great and will be used as our project logo. Students are also gaining quotes for chocolates that we will sell on the wards.

Wristbands will be orded by the end of the week and as soon as the logo is ready we will order some pins and pens for the adults.

The quiz will be held off for a couple of weeks until the chocolates and wristbands are up and running.

Jobs for this week are.

* Boxes for selling products to be designed and completed/ promotion flyer (why? Cost)
* permission to sell products from the ward NUMS
* 3 east to order chocolates
* auxiliaries to be contacted re calico bags
* logo to be complete
* we will need to talk to skates from macadamia re the live quiz

Bye For now and thanks to all

Thanks to room 7 at chisnallwood intermediate school

Big thanks to all who wrote to us. We all enjoyed reading your letters though they all made us sad about what you went through. We are happy that all of you are safe. We hope that the last big aftershock did not cause too much more damage and that you and your family are safe.

Minister of education & OFFER BIG NEWS

Today the Minister of Education Martin Dixon came to the 3rd floor during our school session. I just want to thank everyone who was there and a big thankyou for helping with the project thanks.

THE DEECD ARE VERY INTERESTED IN OUR PROJECT AND HAS OFFERED TO HELP US OUT WITH SELLING 50 OF OUR PRODUCTS. IT MIGHT BE GOOD FOR US AND MAY SELL MORE THAN WE THOUGHT.

Weekly update June 17

Hi everyone.

Our thoughts are with the people in Christchurch who suffered through a 6.3 aftershock on Monday. There were also 90 aftershocks in a 24 Hour period.

It has been a slow week with not much happening on the Blog due to exams for alot of kids. Also we had the public holiaday.

With the wristbands there is only one day left to vote and so far the wrist band Red/Black-Help Fill The Cracks is the most popular.

Still wating for permission for the wristbands but hopefully we will be able to place the order next week.

We need to get cracking on the chockolate boxes and posters please.

There are alot of jobs posted on the Blog if you are looking to help.

bye for now......

Christchurch city rocked again - Monday June 13th, 2011

Christchurch community have again been hit by strong aftershocks, one registering 6.0 on the richter scale. Further damage has occurred, liquefaction (water seeping up and mixing with the soil) is causing havoc and people have been injured. As one member of the community summed it up, the situation is exhausting. Post a warm thought here for the Christchurch community who are one again fearing for their safety and face another night without power and water.

One more thing.... the newsletter

One more thing :)  We would  like to send a small article or illustration to Chisnallwood Intermediate  to ask if they could please include this in the school newsletter. We would love to have students and families at home jump on the blog and see what our project is about.
Only needs to be brief - Introducing who we are, what our project is about, our blog address  and what activities we are holding to raise money. Please see a ward teacher if you need more details.

Mmmmmmm. CHOCOLATE!!!!!!

Another fundraising idea that has been suggested is selling chocolates on the wards. We would need to get approval by the Nurse Unit Manager on the wards first, but for now we can find some quotes.
Please research the best possible way to do this and remember the profit margin needs  to be enough to make the fundraising worthwhile. thanks

URGENT...What about the parents & staff?

Hey Guys,

We still need some ideas and quotes for some items we can sell parents and staff. We have some pretty hip adults but I'm not sure wristbands are everyone's cup of tea. And then there is infection control which probably will prevent wristbands being worn by staff.   We need small additional promotional items that can be sold. Things like little pins and small badges? Pens ? usb sticks?  Can you help?  Kind of urgent as we would ideally sell these at the same time as the wristbands. :)

Help! Tasks to do please.. :)

Hi everyone,

Thanks a million for all your help so far but there is still plenty to do!

For the next few weeks these are the tasks that we need to do...

• Create 6 boxes / trays that can hold the wristbands and a slot area for the money. ( students will need to be able to carry when we visit other wards)

• Create a poster and flyer (on the ipad please) promoting the sale for the wristbands. please include...
• price $2 each
• Cause - Helping the wellbeing of  students in Christchurch, New Zealand  recover from the Earthquake

• Loved the idea of a live quiz on Macademia. Can a few people please write a short brief outlining how it could work so we can take it to the show producers. Think about the age you are targeting - maybe have several segments to target a few age brackets. How are you going to fund raise? G-Dawg had a great idea about charging  a gold coin donation for a quiz answer sheet. Also keep in mind we will need prizes so how are we going to source these?  - perhaps writing/ringing to few local companies?

• See separate posts regarding chocolates and pens/ pins.

Chisnallwood Intermediate School, Christchurch, New Zealand

The school we are fundraising for in Christchurch is an Intermediate school that has an enrolment of approx 750 (not including Internationals) year 7 & 8 students. The students we are communicating with are 11-12 years old and are in year 7. The school  was fortunate enough to be able to open  about 1 month after the earthquake, however many of the pupils have been badly affected. Many feeder schools have been significantly damaged.
Check out the school website of you would like to know a bit more..

http://www.chisnallwood.school.nz/

Weekly update (June 9th)

Well it's Friday again and another week had flown by! G-Dawg is  flatchat today with appointments so I (8th floor teacher) have offered to do this post.  We are almost ready to place an order for our first fundraising idea - wristbands. With 8 days to go before voting closes, it looks like the favoured wristband is red and black with  'help fill the cracks' embossed or printed. 500 wristbands are slightly in front with  1000 being the second most preferred quantity. Don't forget we could contact local schools in the area to jump aboard and we do have 4 or so months to sell them .  If you haven't voted yet, make sure you do :)

We are still waiting for the letters from the students at Chisnallwood Intermediate. Remember we need to be patient given the current situation in Christchurch and  acknowledge the letters may take a little longer in the post.

There has been more great  fundraising ideas suggested and we will be looking at exploring these next week. See the 'Help - more tasks to do please' post to see how you can help.

Again, thanks very much for all your help and fabulous ideas. Keep them coming  :)

new wristband quote

Hi guys & girls on the 3rd floor. I have a new quote for wristbands from Global Wristbands.
They charge $1.15 each

for 1000 wristbands it will cost $0.85 each. This is the full cost including the set up.

Weekly update (3/6/2011)

It's been a very busy week with the project but it is coming along nicely. We have created the posters, short listed designs for the wristbands and we are waiting for the letters from Chisnallwood Intermediate School in Christchurch to arrive. In the next two weeks we would like to meet with the RCH Foundation to gain approval and finalise our wristbands order. We will also be looking at how we are going to sell them. We will also be looking for more new ideas for fundraising.

thanks for your work so far-keep up the good work.

TIME TO DECIDE ON WRISTBAND DESIGN

Thanks to all who have participated in our blog. We are almost there. All we need now is for you to vote on our new poll and tell us what you think. What will be the colours/slogan that will fundraise money to send to Christchurch ?

While you are there, have a think what nurses,doctors and parents would like to buy besides the wristbands.
e.g. pens