This is a story of cold weather, road patrollers braving the elements to keep us safe and the sponteous generosity of a member of our local community.
On Monday morning, having seen our dedicated road patrollers on early morning duty, Mr Bowers decided to return with a gift to make their job just a little easier - warm hats for the whole team!
Quotations from letters written by the delighted road patrol team members best sum up their reactions...
- Thank you for giving us those very warm beanies. They are very practical because they match the bright orange on the road patrollers jackets. Being warm is very important for us so that we can fight bacteria so that we do not become sick and miss out on attending school and our learning. This is a good example on how the community supports our school and our learning.
- It is good to have a warm fuzzy feeling when we are doing our job.
- Thank you for the hat. Now my head will be as warm as fresh toast from the toaster. I like the orange and black, as well as the logo too. All of my friends like them as well and our heads will no longer be cold and we won’t have goose bumped faces.
- Our ears could get hypothermia and then they would need to be chopped off! This would be bad because we wouldn’t be able to hear at school or at home.
- Thank you for your random act of kindness giving us those beanies.
- It means so much to us that now we know that we can keep nice and warm in the cold days in winter. Plus it will be looking after our health to improve attendance and learning, we don’t want to be sick every day.
- I think the hats are really awesome to wear. We won’t be freezing our brains anymore. The design is great and the fabric is nice and soft, and the badges are cool too.
- Now our ears are nice and toasty because you gave us those beanies. I’m going to wear it everywhere because it is so warm.
- My dad really likes to fish, so he is going to try to take it off me – but I’ll say “No way! I need it for road patrol!”
- A snugly surprise with getting us lovely beanies.
- The whole team absolutely adored them. I would like to thank you tremendously. Another great thing about them is that they match the colour of our uniform – orange. So we can be snug and do our job. At our latest meeting we found out what you had done and thought that it was a fine example of how the community and school can work together!
- That is kind of you to realise how cold it is to work outside in cold wind. It is very nice of you to just walk in and give us beanies; to kids you don’t even know.
- I’m sure that you are a fine man who helps all sorts of people in different ways.
- Thank you for your kindness and your warmness. Now I don’t have to miss school and I’ve already missed lots of school, and I love school, just like I love the hats.
- “Wow!” That’s the first thing I thought when I saw them. They were the most fabulous and warm hats I ever seen.
- It’s not every day you meet such a nice person as you. I would freeze to death out on road patrol without my beanie because it is so cold this month and the beanies are like a big warm cup of hot chocolate.
- Because of your fuzzy surprise we won’t be able to get sick, and we’ll always be on time, ready to start our jobs. You’ve been a good role model for us, and now we’ll always be ready to give a helping hand too.
- They keep our heads warm, warmer than boiling water! Thanks for the random act of kindness. Thanks for thinking about us! Right now I am writing to you with the hat on and it feels so comfy! (I could sleep in it!)
- So thank you again and we will take care of them for the rest of the year.
from
Ashlynne, Brodie, Callum, Chay, David, Gaitlin, Isabella, Jamie, Jay, Jazmin, Jeffrey, Joe, Jordan, Mairehou, Michaela, Mitchell, Paige, Rebekah, Rose, Roisin, Sam and Sean
