"Pink on the Square"

Students Leadership along with family, friends, and faculty walked on September 20th in downtown Carrollton for the Susan G. Komen Foundation.  This is the second year the leadership academy participated in the fund raising event.  Again the academy had a cupcake sale and donated over $1000.00 to the foundation.  We won the prized "Pink Shoe" award again for being the participants which donated the largest amount.  Congratulations to the community and all of the cup cake makers for their help.

Our 5th grade student leaders got to take a trip for Red Ribbon Week to Austin, Texas for the Drug Rally.  We also got to make our own bill and read it in the Senate and House.  Our bill pasted in both houses.

Our next service project was our Mad for Magazine drive.  The students and staff at Sheffield collected well over 1200 magazines to take to Trinity Medical Center for use by patients and their families and friends.  We delivered the magazines on Saturday, October 25th.

In November the Leadership Academy sponsored "Rock the Vote".  All Sheffield Intermediate staff and students registered to vote and participated in the very historic Presidential Election.  The students at Sheffield voted Obama in office by a wide spread on election day.

November was also the time the student leaders did their service project "Giving Thanks!".  Every year non-perishable food items are collected for the North Texas Food Bank.  This year we surpassed our goal and collected over 3,000 items for the food bank.  Thanks to the hard work of our student leaders, the staff and students at Sheffield, and our community helper - Wal-Mart.

Our community service project for December was collecting toothpaste, shampoo, soap, & toothbrushes for "A Clean Start" for women in shelters.  Again the response from our Sheffield community was overwhelming.

In January for the second year in a row, we collected bears for our "Bear Hugs" to Trinity Medical Center.  These bears are given to children to hold on to as they are treated at Trinity Medical Center.

In February the Student leaders took their field trip to Dallas Baptist University.  We got to tour the campus and meet with student leaders of the University.  We had a fun filled day learning about the university and their community service projects.