Flames give incentive to read

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The Reading … Give It A Shot program is sponsored by the Calgary Educational Partnership Foundation (CEPF) and the Calgary Flames.

The program ran from January to March, and Brentwood School (among others in the school division) was provided with Calgary Flames trading cards, rewarding students for every 100 minutes they read at home.  Each trading card featured a different Calgary Flames player or Harvey the Hound. The purpose of the program was to promote reading and the ultimate goal for students was to collect all 24 trading cards (most students wanted them kept together in the poster format they arrived in so they became a complete set to display), thus reading 2,400 minutes at home.

Brentwood school had about 50 students from Grades 1-6 achieve this goal this year and because of the school-wide participation, the organization also donated a Calgary Flames jersey. To be fair, each student who read the 2,400 minutes or more had their name put into the draw for the prized jersey. Sarabeth Hillis, Grade 5, was the lucky participant whose name was drawn, and she had read a total of 7,225 minutes by the time the program had ended so it was very well deserved.