St. Ignatius Martyr School

Bobcat Fun Run
"Book'n Toward Blue Ribbon Status"
2007-2008
April 25, 2008

Goal: $70,000 ($30,00 is allocated for the school budget and the remaining will go toward new school textbooks)

Date: Friday, April 25, 2008

Where: St. Ignatius School & Surrounding Streets
(we are working on closing down streets that border our school with the exception of Oltorf to run our event)

Time: After Mass 10:00am-11:30am

Lunch: We will sell a special lunch that day (hamburgers, hotdogs, nachos, fajita tacos)

Dress Attire: Bobcat Fun Run T-shirt 2007-2008 & Appropriate Length Shorts
Shirt will be sold during Catholic School Week.  Shirt can be worn any day of the week with the exception of Friday mass day or other mass days or special school days. Shirt will be $10.00

Morning Agenda: 10:00-11:00 2nd-8th grade-will complete the course on the streets around the school. (PreK-1st will run a shorter course on school grounds). Lunch 11:00-1:00pm Afternoon will be reserved for the School Olympics for grades 3rd-8th grade.  Activities for the School Olympics: Volleyball, Basketball Free Throw Contest, Long Jump, Football Throw, Horse Shoe Throw. Each event will be $10 per contestant.  Registration for activities will be available after spring break.

Participation-100% of school children will participate
Minimum pledge donation-$25.00 to run in the race. Those that don't raise the min. pledge donation will not be allowed to participate. We want everyone to get involved.

Pledge Drive: January 31st-April 24th

Student Incentives

All students are expected to participate in the Bobcat Fun Run. Participation will require a $25.00 pledge per child.

St. Ignatius Student Raffle-for each $100 donation, a child will get a raffle ticket put into the basket for the raffle drawing. Drawing will be April 25th after the awards ceremony. Raffle Items: 3 Bikes of different levels, laptop computer, Ipod, camara, Signed UT item, front row to 2008 Christmas program, front row parking at school, Toys R Us gift cards, Nintendo DS, Sea World tickets, Fiesta Texas Tickets and lots more...

Afternoon at the St. Ignatius Carnival-Raise $150 per person or $300 per family-you can enjoy an afternoon off from school playing on the moonwalk, eating snow cones, popcorn and more.

Out of Uniform for a Week-$300 per family-All family members can wear out of uniform for a week

Big Austin Trip for the Day-$500 per family (TBA)

All families that are $1000 donors will have their names on a plaque that will hang in front of the school and will be invited to sit on the textbook committee. They will also be invited to a special gala in June. They will be honored at our last PTO meeting.

Classroom with the most pledges-6 foot trophy

Every class with 100% participation of at least $50 a student will get a pizza party.

1st-3rd place trophies for Pledge Donations in three categories
(PK-K) (1st-4th) (5th-8th)

Teacher/Staff Incentives

Jean Day/Casual Wear-Raise $100 pledge donations and you will get one week of casual/jean day for a week.

½ Day off with massage-Raise $300 in pledge donations and you will get an afternoon off with a massage gift certificate to be used at that time or when convenient.

If your class has 100% participation, you can attend the Austin Big Trip.

Class with the most pledges will receive the coveted 6 Foot Trophy

Sponsors

We have many ways to sponsor this year but to receive credit for the student incentives, the sponsors need to donate money.

Attached is a sponsor letter and sponsorship levels. Families can be sponsors as well as businesses.

We are also looking for items for the raffle. Even though we cannot use that toward student incentive credit, it would be greatly appreciative since we are trying to keep expenses low so that most of the profit goes toward the purchase of the textbooks.

Sponsorship Response Form (Due March 1)

Pledge Drive

Each child will receive a pledge sheet, baggie for the money collections. Children are asked to only collect money or checks made out to St. Ignatius school. Tell the donors that the money is going toward our quest to be a Blue Ribbon School and the purchase of our textbooks.

Process:
Each Thursday starting February 7th, children will bring their bags ALONG with their pledge sheet to their teacher.  The bag will be counted that day and recorded to give them credit.  If a $100 mark is reached for the child, a raffle ticket will be made for that child. On Friday morning during assembly, those names will be read and placed in the raffle basket. The baggies will be returned along with a receipt that day. We will only collect on THURSDAYS

Classroom Thermometers will be updated by Friday. Check Wednesday folder for Bobcat Fun Run Newsletter for Updates.

Please try not to use lots of change. It makes it very hard to count.

Please try to keep children's money separate. It makes it difficult to count when one check is to be counted for multiple children.

Volunteer Possiblities

We need lots of volunteers to make this event a success.

Food Preparation: We need people to help prepare the lunch on the day of the golf tournament and fun run.

Counters: We need people to help count money on Thursday mornings from 9:00-11:00am

Fun Run Officials:We need help the day of the run covering the runners route and marking the runners cards.

Olympic Event Chairpersons: Each event needs a chairperson to run the event.

Golf Tournament Registration: We need help with registration of the golf tournament and welcome table

Golf Tournament Officials: Help with running the golf tournament

Sponsor Solicitors:Make phone calls to secure donations from local sponsors

Carnival Day: Help coordinating the carnival day

Field Trip Volunteer: help monitor children at the fun run field trip