www.dance-a-thon.ca
905-454-2609
- Choose your event date and package.
Call our office to confirm our availability
(905-454-2609 or 1-800-336-3583).
or
book
on-line
- Complete a contract and return with
$100. deposit.
- Your deposit is deducted from the
amount owing to Presswood at the end of the
campaign.
- We will supply a detailed event
planning questionnaire to customize your
program.
- Confirm your pep rally assembly booking
(we will suggest a timeslot).
- We will send a draft of the pledge-lope
for your review.
- Send us lists (teacher and homeroom
only) for customization on
pledge-lope.
- Approve/revise the pledge-lope.
- A fun, upbeat and informational 20
minute power point presentation.
- (Screen or wall required. We
bring our own sound system!)
- Hosted by us in your gymnasium
approximately two weeks before the
dance-a-thon.
- Complete explanation for staff and
students of the program and fundraising
procedures.
- Delivery of the ben bracelets, posters,
morning announcements and student
pledge-lopes.
- Students are encouraged to make music
requests on-line.
(www.musicrequest.ca)
- Students are encouraged to receive
on-line pledges. (www.pledge.me)
- Following the assembly, the
pledge-lopes are distributed.
- Play the announcements - they’re
fun, short and keep up student
motivation!
- Display our posters in prominent
locations throughout the school.
- Organize a money collection system
(e.g. student runners, parent council rep
or office drop-off).
- Supply Presswood with a schedule of the
event day several days (or weeks) prior to
your dance-a-thon.
- Supply DJ with a table located near an
electrical outlet.
- Host will arrive ½ hour before first
group begins (as per your schedule).
- We will supply great sound speakers,
colourful lighting and great music
- Classes come to the gym with similar
aged students for timeslots between 30-80
minutes.
- Pair like-aged children in the gym for
each timeslot (e.g. grade one and two
together).
- Avoid putting extreme age groups
together (e.g. DO NOT put kindergarten with
grade six).
- Younger students will be quite
structured in whole group dances, games and
activities.
- Older students will get more free dance
time and music requests (as a school
dance).
- Students will be engaged in the limbo,
the train, the cha-cha slide & other
well known dances.
- If your students are learning a dance
in class, feel free to include it in the
dance-a-thon.
- If parent volunteers are available,
they may be assigned to count money, sell
items at the Dance-a-thon
Store, as runners (keeping the
classes on schedule or as chaperones in
the gym).
- The school keeps 80% of the fundraising
total. (Video is 75%)
- Presswood’s commission is 20%
+gst (Video is 25% +hst.)
- There is a minimum of $850. +hst -
Maximum of $2000. +hst on this program.
(Video is $950 minimum)
- Average across 2800 schools is $6800.
raised with Presswood's Dance-a-thon.
- School is responsible for counting the
money.
- Payment to Presswood due one week after
dance-a-thon.
Presswood
Entertainment
www.dance-a-thon.ca
Call today to inquire: 905-454-2609 or toll free
1-800-336-3583
