It was a big day for Melissa Stockbrugger-Knaus’s grade 7 We Club as they discovered they will be going to We Day Winnipeg thanks to WestJet and Me to We.
Thanks to St. Augustine’s past work with We Day, the school was chosen out of all of Saskatchewan to go to on this trip.
Stockbrugger-Knaus was called by representatives with an offer to send 14 students and two chaperones to the event in Winnipeg on Oct. 24 with flight, hotel, and activities covered by WestJet’s We Day Experience charity.
Serendipitously, the club had 14 members sign up.
“That was completely coincidental because I did not know that this trip was going to happen (at the time).”
With Stockbrugger-Knaus and the student’s parents knowing but the trip being a secret to the students, the only thing left to do was figure out how to tell them.
After going through the We Day package and giving students ideas of how to spend their year with We, the students got to play a trivia game to get clues for the big reveal.
Even after getting all the clues, the students did not believe it, which Stockbrugger-Knaus says was the best part.
“They thought I was teasing them so they hated to get real excited and then when I told them, ‘no, this is real, you’re going to We Day,’ their reaction, they were so excited.”
The group, which will include Stockbrugger-Knaus and Principal Cal Theisen, will be leaving to catch the 6 a.m. flight out of Saskatoon on Oct. 23 and will have a sponsored trip to the Canadian Museum of Human Rights as well as a workshop with some We facilitators at a Beaverlodge School in Winnipeg before heading to We Day on Oct. 24.
Check out our Humboldt Journal Facebook page for a video of the We Day reveal.
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