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Hello. This is Mrs Quintero, the proud head of school of the honor roll school, and welcome back to the pod, the dolphin podcast. We can now be followed on Spotify Spotify and Apple Podcast. Search us as The Tank, THRS official Dolphin Podcast. So follow us and turn on those notifications so you don't miss the next episode.
Mrs. Quintero:Today, I'm joined here with our assistant principal and former school Mrs. Mangum, and we will be sharing the added value and complete learning experience that comes with Trunk or Treat at the Honor Rule School. But first, let's dive right into what's coming up. The fall school wide survey is being launched in batches starting October 13 through the November. It is so important that all families take a few minutes to complete.
Mrs. Quintero:The more responses, the more accurate results. We look carefully at the results and we create our school improvement action plans based on your valuable feedback. We also gauge how past improvements we've implemented based on parent comments are being viewed favorably so that feedback is also paramount. Keep an eye on your inbox for a email from SurveyMonkey, click the link and get to it. Fill out that survey.
Mrs. Quintero:There is no school and no holiday care on Monday, October 13 in observance of Columbus Day. On Friday, October 17, report cards for grades kindergarten through eighth grade will be distributed through Alma. And now I wanna hand it over to Ms. Mangum and myself because we got a lot to talk about with community service. You know, we had our walk, the Susan, G.
Mrs. Quintero:Komen Walk for a cure, which was amazing. Over 125 people from our THRS community showed up on that Saturday morning to go walk with us, in support of this really worthy cause, you know, and Ms. Humle chuk is a survivor. So that meant the world to her to have, you know, so much support from the honor roll school. And not only that, with the pink out shirts combined with this community service project that we went through school wide, we raised over $4,100 as a school.
Mrs. Quintero:So I think that is amazing. I think that community service is such a strong pillar here at the Honor Roll School that, you know, it's embedded in not just the kids, but the faculty and the parents. So I'm really proud of all the accomplishments that we have done. And we've just been in one quarter, right? Didn't I just say report cards were coming out?
Mrs. Mangum:Yes, Yes.
Mrs. Quintero:So I'm like, one quarter and we've already raised $4,100 for everybody. But I really have Ms. Mangum in here today because she is so instrumental in our big community service project that our middle schoolers do for the lower kids. It's called Trunk or Treat. And they had it introduced to them a few weeks ago and they've been working feverishly every morning to get this going.
Mrs. Quintero:And, you know, want to share a little history with everybody because this actually started nine years ago. And, I was laughing about it the other day when I was watching the kids putting together some of their projects projects because we started it with literal trunks. So one the first year we had literal trunks and the parents didn't know what they were getting into when they volunteered their trunk. But all of a sudden kids were wanting to tape and duct tape and glue and it was lovely. The parents were lovely about it.
Mrs. Quintero:But we made it through that first trunk or treat and then we just learned, oh, from there on, we're still gonna call it trunk or treat, but we're just gonna put it on tables. And then some Halloweens we're sweating, and some Halloweens it's raining. So if we now have really perfected trunk or treat, but beside the fun of it, Ms. Mangum, tell us all the great things that these kids get out of it. Because we say community service and then parents only hear, oh, Halloween and candy.
Mrs. Quintero:But really, it is just quite the project.
Mrs. Mangum:It so is, missus Quintero, and I'm so glad to get to talk about this on the Dolphin Podcast. I am very into Trunk or Treat, and that's what I always start off telling the kids how important it is what they're doing for their dolphin community. Roll it out like you said in September and the kids have already been working and working. It's for our fifth through eighth graders. They're the ones complete this service project.
Mrs. Mangum:Is so much more than candy and it is so much more than just the decoration. It's really giving back to our students. That's what we really try to impress upon the middle schoolers and what they're doing. It's not easy and it gets a little messy and that's okay. It really starts with the students, they come up with an idea for their trunk, they create a theme, they group themselves so it's teamwork, it's having to learn to compromise, to work together, they put a budget together, they are only given, a very small amount of purchase money and we really encourage reuse, recycle, repurpose.
Mrs. Mangum:So there's also that element as well. And, you know, working in a group can present its challenges even when you are with your friends. And when it all comes together and every year we're like, oh my goodness. Are we gonna get everything together on time, know, the rush to finish the project and every year it's amazing. The kids pull it off, they work so hard and they love giving back to younger students.
Mrs. Mangum:It's a really cool thing to see the younger students come in, they play a game, they get some candy, they have a wonderful experience. Then the middle schoolers also get to see giving back and all their hard work and how it makes someone else feel and it builds with that community spirit through their community service. The middle schoolers, we do also like to give back to them so their reward for all of their hard work is they get to have a middle school Halloween social which will have a DJ come out and a photo booth and they get to just enjoy and socialize as well and have some fun too.
Mrs. Quintero:So do you ever get any pushback on the budget? You know, I know how kids like to spend money, and I know how they like to have things that are already made.
Mrs. Mangum:Yes. Interesting and it's hard for them because, you know, they will get on Amazon and, you know, you can just get anything there and it just seems so easy, which it is, which is why I love Amazon. But what we really focus on with them is they'll they like last year, remember I got, 10 different links of stuff and it was great stuff and it would be really cool but why can't we make this? We could create this out of something else. And so that creativity aspect, sometimes it's so easy to get on Amazon and just get what you are looking for but then to have to turn it around not be able to get it make it yourself and you see the creativity really come out.
Mrs. Mangum:We had last year an HEB theme and they handmade out of clay all these different you know store products the students would pull them from the shelf they were worth a certain amount of candy and I just the things that the students come up with they're incredible then it's all them. That's what's really cool about it too.
Mrs. Quintero:I think when I look back at the yearbooks you know that's some of my favorite page layouts are from the Trunk or Treat day. I look at their faces, right? You see the middle school so kind and you see, you know, it's captured in a photo. Just how kind they were with the little ones. Just seeing them, like, hand them maybe a ping pong ball because their game had to throw something into one of the holes or a bucket or something.
Mrs. Quintero:And it just you know, even though they think they're so cool, they're in middle school, when you see them with the little ones and how they act with them, it is just, just amazing. And I think the parents that come, to attend Trunk or Treat, they see that too. And a lot of the comments we get after the event from the younger students' parents is, Oh my goodness, you know, I can't wait till my child's in middle school because I wanna see them treat the younger ones that same way. It's just very just a moment of joy.
Mrs. Mangum:It really is. It's a cool feeling. It's a cool thing to watch when you see them, you know, someone from kinder, eighth grade, and they're all happy working together. It's the community builder. It's the dolphin spirit.
Mrs. Quintero:Thank you for joining me, miss Mangum, and I, you know, enjoyed our time, you know, talking about this just amazing community service project. That's, you know, our trunk or treat that's been going on for nine years and that our middle schoolers literally plan, create, and do, and give back to our younger dolphin students. Remember, you can find the pod, the dolphin podcast, in the weekly dolphin days newsletter on the THRS app, on Spotify, and now on Apple Podcast. Look for the fighting dolphin logo. Until next time, this is missus Quintero
Mrs. Mangum:And missus Mangum. Signing off from the tank.
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