Student Council members kicked off the Bowls of Hope Food Drive this week, making presentations to students in various classrooms on Friday morning and distributing white plastic grocery bags to take home for families to begin collecting canned soup and other non-perishable food for the Community FoodBank of NJ, Southern Branch. Please return the Food Drive bags to ACS by Friday, February 4, or bring them with you to the February 5 Bowls of Hope event. Families can also bring donations to ACS during Parent-Teacher Conferences to be held the last week of January.
Student Council is running a contest for the Food Drive. The class that collects the most amount of food by weight will win a pizza party. Last year, ACS set a new food drive record, collecting over 4 tons of food. Let’s beat that record this year!
Here are some important guidelines for the Food Drive:
- Please check the food labels and do not donate any food with expired labels; they cannot be donated to the FoodBank.
- Please be sure to write your child’s name and teacher’s name on any bag you send in with donated food. This will make sure your donation gets to your child’s class and can be part of the overall amount that each class is collecting.
Over 1,000 grocery bags were donated by the English Creek ShopRite to use for our Food Drive. Collection boxes for donations are now located in the school foyer and in the hallways next to each classroom.
We are encouraging every family to participate in our Food Drive to give a helping hand to those in need in our community. Thank you for your participation.
