Ontario Schools

Find 52: Pass the Baton

LITERACY INCLUDES EVERYONE

Find 52: Pass the Baton gets Ontario schools connected to the St. Lucia National Relay in July. Ontario students ​“Toss a Toonie” into a Really Big Shoe, then add their names to a school pledge sheet. After a school’s event is done, all pledge sheets are mailed to us. We curl them into plastic batons, label them by school, then take them to St. Lucia. Throughout the five day relay, St. Lucia students will be running with Ontario schools’ batons. Each day, we’ll post pictures of the relay so students in both countries can see just how far their support for literacy has gone!

Eric Gillis, Canadian Olympian marathoner who finished 10th at Rio 2016, is supporting
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How to run a Pass the Baton event
A school can do its ​“Pass the Baton” during a scheduled Track & Field Day. Or pick another day that’s more convenient. High schools can organize grade competitions during a designated period to see which grade can accumulate the most laps on their track. No track? No problem; get creative and maximize student participation in other ways. Ultimately, it’s about tossing a Toonie and getting as many people as possible to pledge support for literacy!

What Pass the Baton schools receive
Once a school confirms its participation by e-mail, we’ll ship you a Really Big Shoe… to catch all your Toonies! All the other stuff you’ll need – Pass The Baton posters, pledge sheets and morning announcements – are downloadable on this page.

Contact us to sign up!

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Participating Schools
SCHOOL CITY, TOWN or SCHOOL BOARD AMOUNT
Centennial Collegiate Vocational Institute Guelph $1766.00
École élémentaire catholique St-René Goupil Guelph $582.00
Haliburton Highlands Secondary School Haliburton $5200.00
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic HS Guelph $400.00
St. Leo Catholic School Brooklin $355.00
John Galt Public School Guelph $297.00
École secondaire catholique Père-René-de-Galinée Cambridge $568.00
Downloads
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Download Sample school announcements
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2017

Find 52: Pass the Baton

$9,160

raised of $10,000 goal

Campaign concluded on Fri, July 7 2017

92

% raised
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Olympian Jake Holden and Richard Clewes survey the route for Find 52x2 St. Lucia in January 2016. The duo were joined by St. Lucian Olympic athletes and members of the Royal St. Lucia Police Force.

A road is a song, a poem, a movie, an adventure. It's hope and optimism, and inquisitiveness.

A. A. GILL
The Angry Isle
Soirée en Blanc
A few years ago we ran a fun picnic that had 50-100 "flash mob" diners assemble in a secret Caledon location. The "Soiree en Blanc" fundraiser is being revived in St. Lucia, July 2017.

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

C. S. LEWIS
International Literacy Day 2016
Soufrière Primary ran a relay on September 8, 2016 to celebrate reading. The event was filmed as part of the "run-up" to our Find 52 Thousand campaign. From July 3-7, 2017, students from grade 3-12 will run 1 mile segments right around St. Lucia.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)
Find 52 started in Grenada
52 miles gets you right around this small, beautiful island. Companions on the second day included: Philip Clift from Petite Anse Hotel, an enthusiastic young boy and one very fit dog named "Dodgy".

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.

ST. AUGUSTINE
Fundraising is an Uphill Battle
In 2015, I ran 52 miles in Grenada. Let me dismiss athletic motives; it so happens 52 miles gets you all the way around the island. I did it for money – $40,000 – all of which has gone to our charity. CTV National news ran the story on May 25, 2015.

All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

James Thurber