Santa heard a secret from Good Shepherd School teachers last week: “Pssst, Jolly Old St. Nicholas lean your ear this way, there is a child in all of us.”
Good Shepherd School teachers celebrated their inner child during a staff get together Friday afternoon at the school.
“We celebrated the child in us, the child we once were, and the child of the Silent Santa,” said Good Shepherd teacher Angela Bechtel.
The staff was shown pictures of themselves as toddlers and babes. The teachers then held a Secret Santa draw in which they bought a present for a fellow staff member.
However, there was a twist to this Secret Santa exchange. The teachers bought toys for their Secret Santa recipient, but they tried to guess what their Secret Santa partner would have liked as a child.
They did quite well.
For example, Kindergarten teacher Melanie Tokarchuk received a green-and-white football and a green tractor. She hails, of course, from Saskatchewan.
Music teacher Karen Hyland was the recipient of a toy piano.
However, Tokarchuk wasn’t about to head back to Saskatchewan during the holidays and pretend she was Darian Durant with her football. The teachers didn’t keep the toys.
All of the toys were donated to the Foothills Magic of Christmas program. The Magic of Christmas program gives gifts and basic necessities to families in the foothills in need during the Christmas season.
Also part of the Good Shepherd School Christmas program was the Grade 6 class crocheted approximately 60 scarves to be donated to the Mustard Seed homeless shelter in Calgary.
