G.A.T.E.S. students aim to serve

If you are in need of an adult-night out, dinner at your favorite restaurant or Christmas shopping without the kids, the New Richmond Exempted Village School District’s G.A.T.E.S program is at your service.

New Richmond’s G.A.T.E.S (Guiding Academically Talented and Exceptional Students) program will hold a Childcare Night from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6 at Locust Corner Elementary as its second quarter service project that will benefit the Ronald McDonald House.

Cost is $15 per child between the ages of 3-8 ($10 per additional child in the same immediate family.

G.A.T.E.S teachers Rachel Reynolds
(right) and Karen Burke.

“With the money we collect we will buy needed items for Ronald McDonald House,” said Rachel Reynolds, gifted coordinator and G.A.T.E.S. teacher for the New Richmond Exempted Village School District. “We will provide a safe and fun environment for your child which will include a pizza dinner, crafts and games, cookie decorating, and a holiday movie with popcorn.” 

The students will deliver the items on a field trip to the Ronald McDonald House on Dec. 18.

“Together, we can encourage families who have children struggling with serious illnesses at Children’s Hospital,” said Mrs. Reynolds.

The deadline to register for the Childcare Night is Friday, November 22. You can register by phone with Mrs. Reynolds at 752-1432 Ext. 13217 or email at Reynolds_r@nrschools.org or with Karen Burke by phone at 553-3183 Ext, 14011 or by email at Burke_k@nrschools.org. You will need to provide your name, your email address, the child’s name and the child’s age.

The G.A.T.E.S second quarter course is on Money Management and personal generosity. 

“The students are taking their own individual giving journeys to decide on a gift for someone and make a plan to work for it,” said Mrs. Reynolds. “This was a timely course that coincides with the holiday season and the spirit of giving.”

New Richmond Exempted Villagae School District G.A.T.E.S students are pictured preparing liquid soap packages that Mathew 25 Ministries will ship around the world as part of their first quarter community service project. Their second quarter service project will be a Childcare Night Dec. 6 that will benefit the Ronald McDonald House.

In the first quarter, the GATES students participated in a reading course and studied a Japanese folktale, ‘Ooka and the Honest Thief’ about a poor man needing rice to feed his family. 

The first quarter community service project was a field trip to Matthew 25 Ministries where they worked in the processing center to create liquid soap packages to be shipped around the world.

Liquid soap is seen as liquid gold in those areas of the world,” explained Mrs. Reynolds. “ When the soap is gone the people clean the containers and use them to collect clean drinking water.  Matthew 25 Ministries says that for each hour a person donates they help 200 people.”