Sheri Willford's Grade 8 class is an extraordinary bunch.

The Earnscliffe Senior Public School students are the most generous, inspirational, and giving she has seen in five years of teaching.

Not only are they academically exceptional students, they are also very involved within the school community and beyond. The Grade 8 class has adopted local, national and global causes to become young ambassadors for struggling youth and families.

In October they took on a challenge to raise $100 and donate 100 items to a needy family in the local community.  The campaign surpassed its goal and raised almost $800 and brought in hundreds of items.
Afterwards, students decided to take efforts national and global.

They initiated a Canadian Aboriginal Book drive- collecting 74 books and $60 for Aboriginal youth.

Following the successful book drive, students decided to make a contribution to Oxfam. This charity provides people in Third World countries with livestock to sustain their families for a lifetime. The class organized a bake sale and raised enough money to buy chickens and goats.

Recently, they decided to organize a school-wide Earth Day event. Plans included a community clean up to collect at least 75 bags of garbage, "litterless" lunches for a week to reduce waste at the school, a lights off for the day campaign to conserve energy consumption and a poster and presentation campaign to...