Kelvin Continues the Holiday Connection

A choir in the stairwell singing as they enter our school’s doors, a pancake breakfast traditionally cooked by the track team, and the morning finishing with gifts brought by Santa himself! This is what would have awaited students from Pinkham Elementary School had they been able to visit Kelvin High School this past December for our Annual Holiday Breakfast event. This year would have been Kelvin’s 21st Holiday Breakfast. 

Disappointed with the cancellation due to covid restrictions of a much anticipated event, ‘Santa’s elves’ wasted no time in finding an alternative plan to bring joy to Pinkham’s students around the holiday season. Instead of filling the cafeteria with snowflakes and holiday music, the newly formed ‘Spirit Council’ and their teacher supervisors gathered to sort and package gifts based on grade levels. Students from Pinkham School arrived at school on January 26th to find their classrooms filled with handmade paper snowflakes and their own gift bag; stuffed with toys, warm socks, mittens and lots of books. Kelvin seniors Grace Rollins,Yannick Bohm,Gurkirat Butter, Martina Barclay and Nicole Marquez led  the project.   Marquez stressing how important it is to ‘keep as many connections as we can with other schools in order to help lift spirits during these hard times.’ Rollins says she wanted to take part in this initiative upon remembering the happiness it brought the kids during last year’s Holiday Breakfast, and thought ‘we should be doing whatever we can to make sure a bit of that continues on.’

And continue it did;  students and staff between the two schools held a Google Meet on Tuesday the morning of 26th January morning to reconnect in this year’s version of face to face contact. The elementary students were given the opportunity to say thank you, while the high school students were able to see firsthand the impact a simple act of giving could accomplish. ‘Getting a chance to speak with the students and hear how excited they were was so uplifting,’ says Kelvin student Martina Barclay, ‘it puts into perspective how easy it is to have a positive impact in someone else’s life, regardless  if there is a pandemic going on.’ The Student Spirit Council would like to thank all students and staff who helped make this project a success. 

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