Walk-a-Thon: Thursday, March 30

1. Register Your Page:

• Set up your page: https://app.99pledges.com/fund/walkathon2023/addme

• Scroll down to see tips on creating your page.

2. Ask For Donations/Support:

Once you set up your page, it's time to let your community know and ask for support!

• Email your friends, family, and colleagues asking for support.

• Post to social asking for support.

• Walk your neighborhood and 

3. How It Works

The Walk-a-Thon will take place on Thursday, March 30 during school hours. Students will be walking around the grass field on the back of campus throughout the school day. Parents, family, and friends are invited to come watch from outside the fence on Eureka so you can cheer for our students.

4. Volunteer To Help!

In order for our Walk-a-Thon to happen, we need your help! If you are a badged volunteer with the West Contra Costa School District, you can sign up to help. We need families to help set up the different stations kids will walk through on the field, provide supplies such as snacks and more, be present during the Walk-a-Thon to manage stations (such as marking lap tallies on student cards), and to help clean up.

• Sign up to provide supplies or volunteer during the Walk-a-Thon.

  • As a volunteer during the Walk-a-Thon, you must be a badged volunteer.

• Questions about volunteering, email us: pta@fairmontschool.org

5. Prizes

• Grade-level prizes coming soon

6. Walk-a-Thon Schedule on Thursday, March 30

This year we wanted to try to mix the grades a bit to give the students opportunity to participate with their Reading Buddies and other connections in different grade levels and to allow parents/family of other grade levels to watch at different times.

• 8:45-9:30 am (Most of) T/Kinder and 4th Grade:

  • TK, Ms. Reeves, 3/4th grade Ms. Linneman, Kinder Ms. Higley and Ms. Como, and 4th Ms. Leung  and Mr. Ko

• 10:30-11:15 am 1st and 3rd Grades:

  • 1st grade Ms. O’Neill, Mx. A, and Cook, 3rd grade Ms. Kelso, Umoru, and Saidah

• 1:00-1:45 pm Kinder, 2nd, 5th Grades:

  • Kinder Ms. B, 5th grade Mr. Brizzi and Mr. Z, 2nd grade Ms. Brandt, Ms. Meg, Ms. Summer, and Ms. Marshall 

• 1:45-2:30 pm 2nd and 6th Grades: 

  • 2nd grade Ms. MJ and Ms. DeVost, 6th grade Mr.  Auday and Ms. Kidd

7. Spirit Week

• Coming soon! Fairmont Elementary's Student Council will be voting on our Spirit Days in the coming week -- so stay tuned!
  
  

8. Walk-a-Thon Watch Party

Join the Fairmont PTA from 8:45 AM to 11:15 AM for some snacks and coffee while you cheer your class and kids on! Look for the table outside the fence of the back field along Eureka and Lexington. Questions? Email us at PTA@fairmontschool.org

What Is The Walk-a-Thon And Why Are We Walking?

The Walk-a-Thon is a great way for kids to participate in an all-school activity together while also supporting our school.  Our goal is to raise $30,000 which will go to supporting our garden space and garden coordinator, Ms. Claire, as well as our enrichment programs, providing supplies for our school, and paying for community engagement opportunities.

On Thursday, March 30 students will walk from their classrooms to the grass field and walk, run, skip the perimeter of the grass. We will have various stations the students will go through to make it fun -- such as a bubble station, dance station, limbo station, and more. Students will have tally cards that will reflect how many laps they did. 

Parents/families/guardians are invited to cheer their kids on from the outside of the fence. Fairmont's PTA will be outside the fence with coffee and snacks -- stop by and say hi!