November 3, 2009

Students learn to “Look After Yourself, Look After One Another” through the Right to Play organization

On Friday, November 6, 2009 at 9:00 a.m., Sam Sherratt Public School in Milton will host its first Right to Play day at a school-wide assembly.  Special guest will be Para-Olympian Billy Bridges, who will represent Canada in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics as a member of the Men’s Sledge Hockey Team.  Staff and students are looking forward to hearing Bridges’ inspirational story of perseverance and determination.

Sam Sherratt Public School staff and students feel very fortunate to be closely affiliated with the Right to Play organization.  Right to Play is established in over 26 countries where it is represented by past and present Olympians who work with children who have experienced difficult life circumstances such as poverty, warfare and other atrocities. 

Through the power of sport and a simple red soccer ball, Right to Play provides a hopeful message through their tag line, “Look After Yourself, Look After One Another”.  Sam Sherratt Public School is privileged to support this work and to bring the important message of personal responsibility and cooperative spirit to students within the school. 

“As a school, Sam Sherratt’s focus this year is to help students understand that ‘Impossible is Nothing’,” says Scott Pritchard, Principal of Sam Sherratt Public School. “Billy Bridges’ story will support the important community-building work happening at the school and what it means to ‘Look After Yourself, Look After One Another’”. 

For additional information, contact:
Scott Pritchard, Principal, or
Merrill Mathews, Vice-Principal
Sam Sherratt Public School
(905) 905 878-1556