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ONE TO ONE Volunteers at Word on the Street – Despite high winds and rain, ONE TO ONE volunteers came out to help us at Word on the Street.
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
ONE TO ONE Volunteers support for Raise a Reader
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
- ONE TO ONE Volunteers supported several Raise a Reader initiatives, including manning a booth at the PNE.
Spelling Bee Challenge 2011
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
The Spielers
On May 19th, 15 teams competed for the coveted Spelling Bee Challenge trophy at the Vancouver Convention Centre. This fun breakfast event was hosted by Norm Grohmann to raise money for ONE TO ONE’s literacy program. The participants had to start using their brains very early in the morning to try and correctly spell the words chosen from Scripp’s National Spelling Bee website (http://www.spellingbee.com/).
The winning team, “The Spielers”, from the Glen Group BMO Nesbitt Burns spelled 10 words out of 15 and took home the trophy while the Runners up, “The Killer Bees”, from RBC Global Asset Management Inc & RBC Phillips, Hager & North Investment Counsel Inc. took home individual medals for spelling nine words correctly. “The Pit Bulls”, an enthusiatic team of annual supporters, led by Ebie Pitfield placed third.
We look forward to the Spelling Bee in 2012 and hope everyone will invite their colleagues and friends to take up the challenge to raise funds for ONE TO ONE.
A big thank you to all our participants and/or sponsors:
Davis LLP
Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
The Glen Group at BMO Nesbitt Burns
Macdonald Realty BGW Ltd.
McIvor Communications Inc.
RBC Global Asset Management Inc. & RBC Phillips, Hager & North Investment Counsel Inc.
Shapiro, Hankinson & Knutson Law Corporation
TD Waterhouse, Private Trust
Walter Francl Architecture Inc.
And to all the individual participants—your support was greatly appreciated.
A special thank you to our Silver Sponsor—
Desjardins Financial Security
Word to Word Newsletter May 2011
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011Click to view (Adobe PDF)
Volunteer Appreciation Tea 2011
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
Some of our Voluteers enjoying tea at the University Women’s Club on April 13 2011.
ONE TO ONE board members and staff were pleased to honour our dedicated volunteers on April 13th at our Annual Volunteer Appreciation Tea. Susin Nielsen, local award winning author and screenwriter, delivered an inspirational address to our tutors. Susin shared her personal story and talked about the impact of one teacher who showed a little faith in her as a child. She went on to emphasize the role that ONE TO ONE volunteers play in instilling in students a confidence and belief in themselves. As she noted, “…I stand here today as proof that sometimes, a little faith can go a long way.” Our theme this year was volunteers as our good fortune and volunteers truly are ONE TO ONE’s good fortune. Our over 320 volunteers donate hundreds of hours each week helping struggling readers become confident readers. We were very pleased to honour two special tutors: Alice Rolfe who has volunteered for ONE TO ONE since the program’s inception in 1989 and Peter Bone our oldest volunteer who at 89 is in his ninth year of tutoring.
RBC Foundation Presentation
Friday, April 15th, 2011RBC Foundation donated $5000 to ONE TO ONE Literacy Society. MacKenzie Elementary School Principal and Coordintor, Ross Cassie and Karen Payne welcomed Ann Carroll, ONE TO ONE Board Chair, and Sherry Loof, ONE TO ONE volunteer tutor, to accept the cheque from Jacky Gill, RBC Manager of 49th & Fraser Branch. Pictured below on the right are Ross Cassie, Karen Paynter and Sherry Loof; pictured on the left are Jacky Gill, Ann Carol and Sherry Loof with one of her ONE TO ONE students.
RBC Foundation: http://www.rbc.com/community-sustainability/community/index.html
In Service Training February 26 2011
Thursday, March 31st, 2011On Saturday February 26th, volunteers gathered for a ONE TO ONE presentation, “Ready, Set, Read”.
The tutoring equivalent to “location, location, location”, is “motivation, motivation, motivation”. Motivation is one of the most significant factors tutors can target in order to improve a student’s reading. Susan Williamson and Linda O’Reilly shared strategies and games to help tutors learn ways to take advantage of the many spur-of-the-moment opportunities for motivating students that happen during the course of tutoring sessions.
Volunteers learned how to engage students in lively conversations and five-minute reading games and enjoyed this idea packed session, going home with two ‘ready to use’ reading games to include in tutoring sessions.
Please click on the link below to view photos of the event and go to Tutor Tips to view the handouts: Ready Set Read, Word Card Games and Comprehension Wheels.
Word to Word Newsletter December 2010
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010Spelling Bee Challenge 2010
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010Spelling Bee goes down to the wire!
Our 5th Annual Spelling Bee held Thursday May 27th at the Vancouver Convention Centre was a nail biter as nineteen teams vied for the coveted trophy. In the end the law firm, Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP walked away with this year’s bragging rights.
The real winner of course is the ONE TO ONE program and on behalf of the Board of Directors we would like to thank all of our corporate table sponsors:
BMO Nesbitt Burns
Davis LLP
Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
Macdonald Realty BGW Ltd.
McIvor Communications Inc.
RBC Phillips, Hager & North Investment Counsel
TD Waterhouse, Private Client Centre
Vancouver School Board
Walter Francl Architecture Inc.
as well as the many individual participants who came out to support the event.
Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP