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<\/a>TOES staff used the school\u2019s Jump Rope for Heart kickoff assembly Oct. 9 to show students another way to make their hearts feel good \u2013 by giving to others.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels good to give back. It makes your heart feel good when you give something,\u201d principal Linda Sidone told students gathered in the cafeteria.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe received a lot of great PE equipment because you all did such a great job with the American Heart Association\u2019s Jump Rope for Heart campaign last year. Because we already have lots of equipment, our PE staff came up with the idea to partner with a school on the Eastern Shore in a Heart-to-Heart partnership,\u201d Sidone explained to students. \u201cWe wanted to give back to some of our \u2018family\u2019 members – other educators who work at other schools.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sidone introduced the students to Kiptopeke Elementary School principal Subrina Parker and PE teacher Michael Brickhouse who were invited to the assembly to receive gifts of new equipment for their school – 100 jump ropes, 20 basketballs and 10 playground balls. Sidone, Jensen and several PE assistants presented the equipment to Parker and Brickhouse to applause by TOES students.<\/p>\n
She added, \u201cIt\u2019s great to be able to give back to people who aren\u2019t as fortunate as us.\u201d<\/p>\n This is a lesson TOES staff hope students learn this year as part of their work as a Global Passport School, an initiative related to the school division\u2019s new strategic framework Compass to 2020<\/em>.<\/p>\n For students to be globally aware and compete economically with people from all over the world, “they need to have knowledge of and empathy for other cultures,\u201d explained elementary social studies coordinator Megan Raftery.<\/p>\n \u201cThat has to start young,\u201d Raftery said, \u201cand Global Passport Schools are taking a look at what global awareness might look like for our youngest students to benefit the entire school division as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n Participating schools aim to build global awareness and provide instruction with a global lens through the study of existing science and social studies curriculum at each grade level.\u00a0In addition to providing professional learning to create \u201cglobal educators,\u201d schools are \u201cglobalizing\u201d their physical environment and looking for opportunities to make connections beyond the classroom.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can\u2019t go global without going local,\u201d\u00a0is a concept Raftery said Global Passport Schools discuss, and she noted this idea is demonstrated with Three Oaks Elementary\u2019s outreach to Kiptopeke Elementary.<\/p>\n Kiptopeke principal Parker is grateful for the new connection.<\/p>\n \u201cWe’re really excited about the heart-to-heart partnership and schools supporting one another,\u201d Parker said. \u201cIt\u2019s a celebration of Jump Rope for Heart, but it is also a celebration of a school in the city partnering with a school in a rural area with high poverty,\u00a0providing us with much-needed PE equipment so our students can continue to remain healthy and have healthy hearts.\u201d<\/p>\n Jensen noted that their respective school mascots make for a unique partnership.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re the dolphins, and we\u2019re the wolves,\u201d Jensen told students. \u201cI know it seems like they are unlikely friends, but we are happy to give something from our heart to their heart.\u201d<\/p>\n Sidone agreed, telling Patrick and TOES students at the assembly, \u201cWe hope that this heart-to-heart partnership can be everlasting because we love what you do on the Eastern Shore.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three Oaks Elementary School (TOES) students know how to keep their hearts healthy. \u201cCardio!\u201d they respond in unison. \u201cThat\u2019s right \u2013 cardio! You guys know this,\u201d affirmed PE teacher Nick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4306,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions\/4306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>A similar donation will be made to an orphanage in Nicaragua when PE assistant Veronica Cash\u2019s husband and daughter travel to the country in November to volunteer. \u201cThey are taking jump ropes, basketballs and soccer balls to give to the children because they don\u2019t have anything,\u201d said Cash.<\/p>\n<\/a>