|
Tailored site for schools - Rotary Day/Thanks for Life |
|
|
|
Written by Guru Guruswamy
|
|
 Gt Missenden RC's T4L Schools web page goes national
Impressed by its potential to engage all schools in RIBI land in the run up to Rotary Day, the RIBI D4L team has added Gt Missenden's Schools link page as a new resource on its 'For Schools' section. A similar page, written for businesses/employers has also been added to the RIBI site (click the picture to enlarge and see an index to the full range of resources now available for Clubs).
The simple schools' web page provides an effective medium to both attract interest and distribute information to schools by building on the enthusiasm young people & students have in surfing the net. It may be of interest to Clubs when promoting Rotary Day / Thanks for life specially with Heads. The idea was originally put forward at a Zonal International/Foundation meeting. Colleagues seeing its potential requested that the resource be made available to other Clubs so that they could point their schools to the site and thus avoid duplicated effort.
A single page on our club website has been developed that could help pupils, teachers and parents know what it is all about. It has all the essential information. It is at: http://www.greatmissendenrotary.org.uk/schools Distractions from ads and to other sites has been kept to a minimum.
On the website, there is a range of materials to interest people of all ages to browse through – from a simple slide show, a publication in ‘comics’ form, a fact sheet, a poster, short trailers of a documentary which was nominated for an Academy Award called ‘The Final Inch’ etc. There also some ideas for fund raising and how they can donate ... including 'justgiving' on line account for adults.
We also have a standard letter that was sent to the Headteachers. In it we say:
"While our Club’s primary objective is to raise awareness, there are also some ideas for fund raising on that day. Just £1 can save lives of five children as Rotary and other organisations battle the final stage in eradicating Polio. For instance, pupils can wear something ‘purple’ on that day to mark the event as it is the colour of the ink used to identify each child that has been given the Polio vaccine. Kids can colour the nail of the small left finger in purple. Canten staff can put purple coloured icing on the cakes.
We would appreciate it if you could join us in this effort by:
- Providing a link from the Home Page of your school website to a specific page on our club website for a few days/weeks around 23 Feb 2010. [Your webmaster can link it to: http://www.greatmissendenrotary.org.uk/schools and if possible use a reduced size of the graphics image which is at the top of this letter].
- Publicising it amongst your teachers, pupils and parents
- Having a Rotary Collection Box for any donations in an appropriate place in the school...."
Clubs are welcome to use this or adapt it to their situations. If any Rotarian needs more info, please contact
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
, at Great Missenden RC, or
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
in Guru's absence.
|
|
Last Updated ( Monday, 11 January 2010 )
|
You can now get the latest updates from the website and the District PR/Comms team by following our Twitter feed at twitter.com/rotary1260
"One of the most wonderful things about Rotary is that it allows you to be part of something so much larger than yourself."
