The Vancouver Giants Hockey Team along with the generous support of education partners, CIBC, Save On Foods, Campbell’s Soup, Roche Diagnostics and ActNow BC, are pleased to present the CIBC Read to Succeed Literacy Initiative, now in its sixth year. In 2006-07 the Read to Succeed program involved 80 schools and over 9000 students

The program is aimed at grades 4 to 6 classes to encourage the students’ reading and studies as they begin their intermediate school years. Giants’ players, who are students themselves, visit schools to speak about the importance of education and present a reading and activity challenge to the students.

Classes participate in a reading program based on books of interest and appropriate reading level and a physical activity program for a two-week period. Each student completes a passport log of minutes spent reading and being physically active outside of school, and have it initialled by a parent, in order to contribute to a class tally.

A full class tally, based on 15 minutes of reading and 30 minutes of physical activity for each student per evening over a 2 week period, will qualify the class for tickets to attend a WHL Vancouver Giants game.

The Vancouver Giants team was selected as the WHL’s “Scholastic Team of the Year” and alumni, Gilbert Brule, won the league’s “Scholastic Player” award in 2005. The Giants organization and its corporate education partners value this recognition of their vision of athletes as role models who value education.

Any interested schools looking to have their students involved in the program are encouraged to contact the Giants office at 604-4 GIANTS.