Ponsonby Intermediate School Auckland New Zealand and "PIF"

Hi,

Last year I contacted you for 100 bracelets for my own 3 year 8 English classes. The ‘pay it forward’ effect was humbling both for myself and my students. Students left their bracelets in airports, basketball stadiums, on car windows, in letterboxes of elderly neighbors to name but a few. Not one student approached this task with  a ‘whats in it for me?’ attitude. Each and everyone of them was touched by someone elses experience.............and the thing that we couldn’t get over was how our actions always seemed to come back to us as another  positive in some way! By the way......The children involved loved seeing their blogs up on the site!

I would like to read parts of the book out loud at school assembly and teach all 550 children the gift of pay it forward through the words of the author.
Thank you for your continued uplifting e mails each week. We use them on the staff notice board and I share them with my classes for discussion time .

Regards in the spirit of pay it forward

Joanne Sussex
Ponsonby Intermediate School
Auckland, New Zealand