Mr. Weirsma

Dear TVNZ

I would like to nominate my school caretaker, Mr Weirsma for the Good Sort Award.

My name is Fraser and I’m a year six student at Ilam school in Christchurch.

I told my class and my principal about this idea and everyone thought that he really deserves to be noticed for all his kindness and work for people at our school.  He does so much more than his job.

He helps kids a lot and he even helps the teachers! He is so popular at our school that some kids think that he is the principal!!

He has built lots of scooter stands for us.  He made some cool stilts that we use every day. Last year he made a special arena for our beyblades to battle on. Recently he made a hut with Room 7 for us to play in.  He does gardening with Room 18 and keeps our school so tidy that we have won lots of awards for our beautiful school grounds.  He is so friendly and kind. He even helps some families outside of school time.  In the winter he comes to school at 5am to start the heating for our classrooms!  He was even at our school when the September earthquake hit at 4:30 in the morning!!

Want to know more?  Well you will just have to come and meet him.  He is the sort of person who just keeps on giving and does it quietly in the background.

PS. I also thought that the best way to persuade you to come and see him would be to make a video.

So my class made this video today – the last day of term – please watch it on youtube.

We are all very sad at Ilam school because Mr. Weirsma is leaving us to go and live in Australia.

Last year his son died of cancer and he is going to Australia to be closer to his family.

He is leaving in three weeks. We will miss him.

Please come soon because he really deserves this award.

Really really really

By Fraser, Andrew, All of Room 4 and the 470 children at our school.