Community Service Archives - Gillispie School

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March 17, 2023

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Community Service, Parents, Values and Community

Handmade Birthday Cards for Meals on Wheels

Meals on Wheels delivers special Happy Birthday gift bags to older adults receiving their services. What a lovely way to show them love on their birthdays! It is a sure way to brighten someone’s day. The Community Relations Committee is providing Gillispie students the opportunity to make handcrafted cards and artwork that Meals on Wheels will deliver to older adults having birthdays. If you are interested in volunteering to supervise a card-making table during lunch hours on March...

by Brittany Kaszas

feeding san diego gillispie

February 23, 2023

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Community Service, Current Parents

Feeding San Diego Volunteer Opportunities

The Community Relations Committee is happy to provide three volunteer opportunities for the Gillispie community with Feeding San Diego. Space is limited, so please register ASAP. You can learn more about their programs by clicking here. Monday, February 27 from 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - ADULTS ONLY Friday, April 28 from 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - Parents and children ages 6 and up. Each person attending must be registered. This is Teacher Work Day (a day off from...

by Brittany Kaszas

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February 17, 2023

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Community Service, Current Parents, Values and Community

Ways You Can Help

The Gillispie community mourns, along with the rest of the world, the devastation and loss of life caused by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on Monday. Many countries, including the United States, are sending search and rescue teams. Local groups are fundraising to continue humanitarian efforts in the Middle East. Here are some ways you can help: UNICEF’s emergency response prioritizes water, sanitation and hygiene, child protective services, nutrition, and education. To donate to...

by Brittany Kaszas

blood drive

February 6, 2023

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Community Service

Sign-Up to Donate at the Blood Drive February 9

Gillispie School will host its 13th annual blood drive on Thursday, February 9, 2023! Over the years, we have collected more than 462 pints of blood; added numerous people to the national bone marrow registry; and donated over $20,000 to the San Diego Blood Bank. Here are some ways you can help support our 13th blood drive: Make an appointment to donate blood. Click here to make an appointment! Post fliers at your local gym, coffee shop, or...

by Brittany Kaszas

Veterns day cards

November 17, 2022

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Art, Community Service

Veteran’s Day Card-Making Project

Thanks to our terrific students, teachers, and parents, for making our Veteran’s Day card-making project a rousing success! So many of our students took time from their recess to create beautiful and heartfelt cards for local veterans, and I have no doubt they will brighten the day of so many of the men and women who have faithfully served our country. Gillispie students are wonderful at showing gratitude! ...

by Brittany Kaszas

doing good together

October 20, 2022

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Community Service, Early Childhood, EC Resources, Elementary, Learn by Doing, Values and Community

Doing Good Together

DOING GOOD TOGETHER is a national organization that provides opportunities for families to volunteer, or “do good” together. Click on the link below and then look for the blue San Diego square. Click here for a list of meaningful family-friendly volunteer opportunities. Better yet, become a member! www.doinggoodtogether.org...

by Brittany Kaszas

supply drive

March 15, 2022

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Community Service, Current Parents, Early Childhood, Elementary, Learn by Doing, Values and Community

Supply Drive to Support Ukraine

Gillispie aspires to nurture and encourage global citizenship. As global citizens, we are connected and share many similarities, as well as differences, and learning about the world around us makes us better informed and empathetic. Families and students have asked how, as a community, we can help the situation in Ukraine. So, this Monday, International Day, we are launching a drive to collect the following items, identified by the local House of Ukraine as desperately needed: 1. All...

by Brittany Kaszas

san diego blood drive

February 23, 2022

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Community Service, Elementary, Parents, Values and Community

The Blood Drive was a Success!

The Grade 3 Blood Drive yesterday was a huge success! Overall, we collected 39 units of blood for the San Diego Blood Bank on behalf of Gillispie School, and 25 people donated for the very first time at our drive! Participants were members from the Gillispie community and our local neighborhood. According to the blood bank, the amount collected is way above average for a mobile drive! Moreover, this collection will save the lives of 117 people in just one day. We are...

by Brittany Kaszas

blooddrive

January 20, 2022

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Community Service, Early Childhood, Elementary, Events, Parents

The Annual Blood Drive is Back February 8!

Gillispie's annual Grade 3 Blood Drive is back Tuesday, February 8, 2022, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event this year will be held in a mobile blood bank stationed in the Sandbox parking lot. Did you know that blood supplies at San Diego County’s busiest trauma centers are more critically low than they have been in over 30 years? Here is a recent article in the San Diego Union Tribune with more information on the current blood supply crisis. Now...

by Brittany Kaszas

pizza fundraiser

December 6, 2021

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Community Service, Current Parents, Events

We’re Thankful for YOU!

Gillispie families love to eat pizza! Especially delicious pizza, like the take-n-bakes made by American Pizza Manufacturing. Thanks to the scores of Gillispie families and faculty/staff that participated, APM told us this was BY FAR the biggest fundraiser they have ever had, and we helped more than triple their revenues for a typical Wednesday evening. Owner/Manager, Andrew, was thrilled by the response, and old wished he could have provided shorter lines. We received terrific feedback and photos from families....

by Brittany Kaszas

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