Making A Difference at Wright Elementary

Katie O'Looney, Supervising Teacher at Wright Elementary

Wright students Jesus Rosas and Jazmin Gomez hold a sign they made for Make a Difference Day.

On October 24th, the Wright CalSERVES mentors and 100 eager after school students participated in Make A Difference Day, a national day of service. This year at Wright our students participated in a trash clean-up of the entire school, weeded areas by teachers classrooms, planted over 100 bulbs in planter boxes that will come up in the spring, swept and mopped the stage area, cleaned out lunch bins for teachers, wrote thank you letters to all of the teachers at Wright, wrote letters to elderly citizens and made 2 signs to help people get to Wright School.

Mentor Jay Harris and student Jesus Rosas put up their sign

Last year, our 5th and 6th grade students who were in our Service Club painted the "Wright School -->" sign and finally this year after getting approval, we were able to put up the sign on the corner of Price Avenue and S. Wright road. After our day of service, the teachers and staff of Wright school were very appreciative. Our school secretary told me that she "put up the old sign 20 years ago and was waiting for the day someone would replace it. It looks wonderful". We really did make a difference!