Responsibility

Responsibility

You are practicing responsibility when you:

Do things to the best of your ability.

Focus on you own job and not someone else's.

Accept credit and correction.

Work toward clearing up misunderstandings.

Admit your mistakes without making excuses.

Take on new responsibilities when you are ready.

Be responsible. Do your best in all you do.

In school we can be responsible by:

Keeping our area in the classroom neat and tidy.
Recycling papers and juice boxes.
Throwing garbage into the garbage can, both in the classroom and outside.
Concentrating on work in the classroom.
Thinking about what needs to improve in our schoolwork and working on it to make it happen.
Gathering all our homework together and everything we need to complete it.
Meeting parents and grandparents after school promptly outside your entrance.
Returning homework completed on the day it is due.

Looking After our School Community

At Bishop Savaryn School we have responsible students who help to clean and pick up garbage that is around the grounds of the school.

We have students who dig up the dandelions that grow in our front lawn. We are responsible members of the community and try to keep weeds under control in our front lawn. As part of our school community service, students help with maintaining the front of our school by digging out the weeds.

Bishop Savaryn students collect and recycle all pop and juice containers. Grade five students are in charge of the recycling.

Grade Five students recycle everyday after lunch.

Library Helpers

Grade 5 students help in the library each day by shelving books and putting up displays. These children demonstrate that they are responsible by giving up their recess to shelve books and set up displays. They must also make sure that all books are shelved according to their number. They must remember which days they are on and show up in the library for their shift. Our library helpers are:

Olivia		Chelsey		Kimberly
Annarita	Erick		James
Reanne	Jesse		Samia

Patrols

Grade 6 students patrol our crosswalks to ensure that children can cross the streets safely. They patrol three times a day. They must be outside even when the weather is bitterly cold. In Edmonton the winter temperature is sometimes -35° C without a wind and far colder when the wind-chill is factored in. The school patrols are always on duty no matter how cold or miserable the weather is. In the spring they begin training grade 5 students to take their place in the fall. Students who sign up to be a patrol need to be very responsible.

The Grade 6 patrols for Bishop Savaryn School are:

Danny	Tricia	Mitchell
Angela	Vanessa	Catherine
Peter	Annalise	David
Nicole	Kyle	Ashley
Tolene	Lance	Abegail
Nicole L	Andrew	Danielle
Joshua	Brittney	Jerrod
Ashley	Nicole S.	Christine
Kassandra	Leah	Diana
Taddas	Evan	Erick
Timo	Hanan	Courtney
Brett	Sarah	Abbey
Abbey	Daniel M.	Daniel H.

Looking after the Community at Large: Warm Hearts Warm Tummies

This project is a continuation of the Warm Hearts Warm Hands Project started last year as a social justice project.

As part of a community service project for confirmation, three grade six students organized, collected and delivered food to St. Michael for food hampers. Lance, Kyle and Ian encouraged students to bring food each day. They posted a tally each day recording donations from each classroom. They offered the incentive of a suitable movie and fresh popcorn to the classroom that donated the most food items. The grade 6B classroom donated the most food for the food hampers. The total food donations for Warm Hearts Warm Tummies was 909 food items.

Donations of Food Items from Each Class

Total Donations for the School

The students then delivered the food to St. Michael School with the help of their parents.

Virtues

Virtues are things that make the world a better place. This is a story about a lot of friends learning virtues, particularly the virtue of responsibility.

Meet Geri, a very responsible person. She is responsible whenever someone lends her something.

One day, everything changed. Not for Geri, but for a new person named Christina. Christina is a responsible person also. When they met, Geri got a bit mad because she wanted to be the only responsible person in the school. Unfortunately, Geri never really learned tolerance.

Abegail

Responsibility

When you are being responsible, you take the blame for your actions, and do not try to make excuses. You are also responsible when you take care of someone who is younger than you are. If someone has misunderstood you, you are responsible if you try to make him or her understand. Responsibility is important if you want to grow up to be bright.

Annalise-Grade 6

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